Bai Tu Long National Park located in Bai Tu Long Bay area is one of the gardens with all 3 ecosystems still quite intact. This is also the habitat of many rare and precious animals named in the Vietnam Red Book.
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Overview of Bai Tu Long National Park
Bai Tu Long National Park is located in Bai Tu Long Bay tourist complex, Van Don district, Quang Ninh province. The total area of Bai Tu Long National Park is 15,783ha, of which forest land accounts for 6,251 ha, located on 40 different islands, the remaining area is sea areas, seawater lakes, and tidal flats.
Because of the special geological structure, the rock islands of Ba Mun, Tra Ngo Lon, Tra Ngo Nho, Sậu Nam, Sậu Động, Đông Ma ... are adjacent to each other, forming a closed arc. The area inside the arc is the habitat of many rare and precious animal and plant species.
With such a large area, it is difficult for tourists to visit Ha Long tour to all the big and small islands located in Bai Tu Long National Park. Therefore, many tourist guides will guide tourists to visit the two areas with the most typical ecosystem within Bai Tu Long National Park, which is the ecological area of Ba Mun Island, Minh Chau Commune.
Not only the garden and limestone mountains, but Bai Tu Long National Park also has mysterious caves located beneath the limestone mountains, in which, Cai De cave - the largest limestone cave in Halong Bay - Bai Tu Long is an address attracting many tourists.
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Journey to discover the beauty inside Bai Tu Long National Park
Explore the ecological area of Ba Mun island
Ba Mun island ecoregion is one of the richest ecological islands in Bai Tu Long National Park. Ba Mun Island has a tropical evergreen broadleaf forest ecosystem, so the trees on the island are always green. Visiting Ba Mun Island of Bai Tu Long National Park, visitors will discover one of the most beautiful tropical forest ecosystems in the country, watching the trees of over a hundred five years old.
If companion the forest rangers in the forest, visitors will admire the extremely rare orchids, only in Hoang Lien Son and Ba Mun islands. In addition to rare plants, visitors will easily see wild boars, chamois, civets, long-tailed monkeys, birds, snakes and turtles ... while visiting Ba Mun Island.
Visit the cave of Cai De
In tourist destinations in Ha Long, the cave of Cai De is considered as one of the most beautiful and attractive caves, attracting the most adventurous tourists of Bai Tu Long Bay. Cai De Cave is 300 - 400m long running through a very large limestone mountain. The ceiling and sides of the cave are covered with strangely shaped stalactites.
The dominant point that visitors want to go to Cai De cave is a small boat that can go deep into the cave. But to take a boat to the cave, visitors have to wait for the low tide because when the tide is high, the sea water will flood upto the ceiling.
Arrive in Thung Ang Hang Doi (Ang Valley and Doi Cave)
Hang Doi Cave is located in Cai Lim area, Tra Ngo Lon island. Doi Cave has more than 10 hectares of mangrove forest. Thung Ang Hang Doi is one of the very special natural topography forms due to seawater flowing through underground rock slits, with fresh water flowing from the mountain slopes. Inside the valley, there are many species of freshwater creatures and saltwater creatures.
At the end of the mangrove forest is Hang Doi - one of the famous tourist sites in Bai Tu Long National Park. Inside the cave is very large and is home to thousands of bats. In addition to bats, there are other species such as otters, civets and foxes in the cave. In particular, inside Bat Doi cave there is a species of precious white monkeys.
In addition to Bat Cave, Bai Tu Long National Park has 1 other cave, which also has a very diverse ecosystem of Soi Nhum Cave. It is also a famous archaeological site with traces of ancient Vietnamese living from 14,000 years ago.
Bathing in Minh Chau Beach
Located on the outskirts of Bai Tu Long National Park, there is a very beautiful beach, tourists call it Minh Chau beach, in Minh Chau commune. The beach here has a natural white sandy beach, about 2km long. Compared to the beautiful beaches on Ha Long Bay, Minh Chau beach can rival the famous beaches such as Bai Chay, Tuan Chau beach ...