PureTravel Introduce New Halong Bay Tours Website

Jan. 28, 2010 - PRLog -- PureTravel is pleased to announce the launch of a new website section that features Halong Bay tour adventures which are supplied direct from tour operators based in Vietnam. Take no chances with your next vacation, travel with those who know your destination by experience.

Halong Bay is a premier travel destination in Vietnam, offering breathtaking sights, deep cave systems to explore, and cultural depth unlike anything else seen on earth. The Natural sights Halong Bay tours complemented with modern amenities makes Halong Bay an ideal vacation destination on several levels.
Halong Bay is a body of water of approximately 1,550 square kilometers in Northern Vietnam with a 120 kilometer coastline, along the Gulf of Tonkin. The Gulf of Tonkin lies near the border with China, and 170 kilometers east of Hanoi. Halong Bay - meaning "Bay of the Descending Dragon" in the Vietnamese, signifies the deep cultural significance the bay has to its local residents.
The bay’s most notable feature is a dense cluster of over twenty-five hundred monolithic, limestone islands that jut far above the surface of the bay, each topped in with thick layer jungle vegetation. Several of these islands are hollowed out, with massive caves, fit for spelunking on your Halong Bay tour. Most notably, Hang Dau Go (Wooden stakes Cave) is the largest grotto in the Halong area. Its three grand chambers contain hundreds of stalagmites and stalactites (as well as a bit of antique French graffiti).

For a bit of cultural flair, A few of the monolithic islands sustain villages of fishers, who troll the knee deep water for two hundred species of edible fish and hundreds of varying types of mollusks. This element of Halong Bay is overlooked, however it is a very important, and very worthwhile stop on any Halong Bay tour.

A Halong Bay tour should make every first-timer's itinerary to Vietnam, with no exception. The cave systems are beautiful, the unique culture is unmatched anywhere on earth, all without giving up the comfort of civilization, with hotels and other amenities located nearby. To contact pure travel and book your Halong Bay tour today, please call 0845 299 7456 within the UK, or 44 (0) 845 299 7456 outside of the UK. For More Details: http://www.puretravel.com/Guide/Travel_guides/Water_activ...

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