Day 6 and 7 - Halong Bay
May 17th 2010 Ever since I started planning this trip, I have been looking forward to Halong Bay - a Unesco World Heritage site due to its approx 2,000 pinnacle-shaped limestone and dolomite rocks or small islands sticking up out of the bay. According to legend (per DK Eyewitness Travel Guides), the bay was formed when a gigantic dragon - ha long means descending dragon - plunged into the Gulf of Tonkin and cre
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