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Halong BayWe took a 2 day tour of Ha Long Bay on a cruising motorboat through Handspan tours. It was both relaxing and beautiful. The Bay is has a mystic, premordial beauty about it, with mountains ( really limestone islands) rising straight out of the sea. The islands in the distance are shrouded in haze and fog so you just get just the impressions of distant mountains. In Vietnamese mythology, the creation of Halong Bay is tied ideologically to the creation of the Vietnamese people. According to mythology, the bay was created by a dragon who descended into the sea and thrashed out the islands with his tail. Mythology also holds that the Vietnamese were the first 100 children of the marriage of a fairy and a dragon. |
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