Vung Vieng Fishing Village
Floating fishing hamlet reached through a natural limestone archway, with pearl farms and a schoolhouse built on the water.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Vung Vieng Fishing Village in Ha Long Bay follows a one-room floating school that carried generations of children to class across open water, in a community that has fished here since the 1800s. You'll hear why the government spent 2012 to 2021 relocating most of the roughly fifty families onshore, and about the roughly thirty households who still call the water home. Look for Hang Cao, the fifty-meter limestone archway you duck beneath to reach the village.
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