Showing posts with label Lan Ha bay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lan Ha bay. Show all posts

Monday, January 20, 2014

Delicious “Gio” fish in the Lan Ha Bay

On Lan Ha Bay (Haiphong),
Far from Viet Hai wharf about only about 20 minutes by ship, there are many seafood cages located close together in an awkward stage. Of these, perhaps the most special friends throughout the Navy with “soldier”.

This is a favorite location for fishing. You can fish by yourself or after the wave of delight in sea water, friends is right up fresh seafood dishes to enjoy with friends. Worth mentioning, the service costs are quite reasonable, trip time held just two days, one night.


In a sunny day, I go quietly between fish cages, a young soldier called to weigh fish. The fish were picked up from the cage rolls, tail thrashed wildly, and mouth open as if to bite always my camera lens is pointed at it. “8kg”. And the iPhone is ready to swallow it," the other a soldier, "warning", because inherently cobia fish are voracious.

Two soldiers had just done talking fish straw, hand scaling and singing. After cleaning, the cobia own cut heads, tails and fins, then cut pieces aside to sour soup with pineapple, tomatoes and herbs. The body then filters out most lean fish to fish lemon salad. The meat is sliced, no need to put up as much stone cold salad the other, do not over- water as well as salt itself so fresh and clean.


The process is quite simple and fast under the skilled hands of some young soldier shoots. Cobia salad when eating broccoli leaves washed with mustard dots are crunchy and sweet. Part stomach and heart fish are cleaned, sliced sautéed peppers discharge. A body mass leave to other fish in the bowl, then added steamed spiced ginger, pepper and red pepper. Fish skin very soft after steaming sweet and fatty.

After a two hour swim around purge, the group returned to friends, slam rushing water bath aisle near the cage. Look at hot lunch tray, attractive dishes on the table is waiting, hearts disk fried fish and sour soup hot evaporation, fresh red chili color on the back piece of steamed fish... oh it's impossible not to delight.


I put pieces of raw fish reform swept into the mouth, sweet, slightly spicy mustard burst of light on the nose, a very special feeling, delicious and fresh.
Lan Ha Bay is located in southeast Cat Ba Island Tingle would have known this if not adjacent to a “giant” of tourism destinations: Ha Long Bay.

This is a smooth Gulf arcs with approximately 400 islands make up a huge painting depicting the scene first. Ha Long Bay is a little different though which is just like a tiny island, the island oasis of Lan Ha and covered with trees and vegetation.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Nam Cat beach - Lan Ha bay

In fact, this is a complex part of the bay, gulf and smooth arcs with approximately 400 islands make up a huge painting depicting the scene and Nam Cat is a distinctive part of the island population.


Visitors can access this beach by boat. Since it only takes an hour ship tour through the small rock islands to the South Sand and enlist see daily life of the fishermen in this unique bay.
Unlike Ha Long bay, we occasionally see Lan Ha bay the cruise ship carrying foreign tourists. Tranquil waters with small fishing village life as separate from the rest of the world. So, with a kayak, visitors can freely explore the beauty of the bay with countless islands and islets groundwater frequently mountain cave. Because of this pristine tourists coming here always enjoy the peaceful feeling to explore the natural beauty and exotic seafood dishes are also fresh sea. European tourists - American backpackers often rent a boat to explore the bay islands themselves, filtering hundreds of beaches in pristine sandy beaches that are happy to camp overnight.


In the calm waters and islands, there many caves such as bat cave, dark caves there are other types of cages village of regional specialties such as cobia, snout otter, abalone, grouper... Tourists can make campfire on a deserted beach and enjoy seafood. It is always place for overnight for group travelers or groups of friends looking camping place particular play.
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Monday, November 18, 2013

Lan Ha bay - Explore Lan Ha bay in Vietnam cruise

Being an island which link  Ha Long Bay to Cat Ba tourism archipelago, Lan Ha Bay (Hai Phong) looks like a lovely range of silk,  embroidered by lush greenery and blue water with various flora and fauna system.

In the area of management of Hai Phong city but Lan Ha Bay is a unique beauty, attracting many tourists visit every year due to belonging to the complex of  Halong Bay. From Beo wharf - a small marina on the island of Cat Ba, tourist can easily rent a small motor boat or big boat, depending on demand, the price is not too expensive. We rented a small boat with high speed to move easilier. Canoes runs  head to the north, the wind blows  immensely  in the salty taste of the sea that brings refresh feeling incredibly.


Water  in Lan Ha Bay is blue and silence pure which reflects the shining white clouds and blue sky pieces. Many  scattered Limestone with various shapes is floating on surface as to evoke the imagination one’s mind. Sometimes, canoes hit a flock of smaller fishes, they jump out of the surface with a look of pleasing crunch.


The fishing boats and nets in military staging lights, small boats carrying heavy goods necessities of traders across the bay. The two rowing boats of fisherman and many modern ships with variety of modern sizes ... carrying tourists up and down the busy creating vivid images that are incredibly poetic. A swedish accompany with our group constantly broth, take continuous shot as  afraiding of missing the beautiful frames which are not easy to have the opportunity to meet again. The cages village raises many kinds of seafood  is garthering to Beo wharf boat  about five minutes or ten minutes. However there are some scattered individual cages around the bay which are not hard to meet. Visitors often have their feet in the floating cages and eating fresh seafood. The specialty seafood are attractive comedy such as a very tasty mollusks having in the water area of Quang Ninh, Cat Ba.



In addition, shrimp , crab , fish ... always waiting ... freely frolic to serve tourists. In recent years,  religious comedy have been successfully raised on the floating platform and become specialties are most people's favorite here. Fresh food, lovely scenery, service and acceptable price should come here.  We are hardly to  refuse a fabulous meal like this. This charming foreign friends in my group is the natural sand scattered on the small island in Lan Ha Bay. The sloping white sand, blue water and rocks naturally invites ... that we decided to stop at a small island waving spoiled the name . We could not deny  hawkers offering overboard, not uncomfortable scrutiny before the insensitivity focus where overcrowding, this place really brought a very comfortable feeling by privacy where there is rare .


In recent years, Gulf of eco-tourism trends was being invested.  From Beo wharf boat run just 5 minutes north of the island is met Pineapple Cat (also known as Monkey Island ), with many tourist services is exploited for decades, attracting a large number of foreign visitors to stay nursing . To find more fresh feeling, we run another ten minutes more to the island canoes Like Turtles. Beginner investors marine eco-tourism, services virtually nothing but a new floor storage for temporary accommodations, offset scene here pretty amazing. If traveling by small boat to come and take about 40 minutes . Just opposite the Turtle Island is a small island with beaches of Van Boi, heart of Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve, one of four biosphere reserves has been recognized by UNESCO. A great many tourists go there not only for bathing , sun exposure, but also to kayaking, snorkeling coral. Like Turtle Island frontage with two sandy beaches and pandanus shrubs decades old, surrounded by mountains surrounded by a pool of closed form. Water is drawn in the early morning can easily catch the sea cucumber, a marine specialty but you have in this area .


Early morning sunrise can pick up at beach , watching a new day dawn when the sun begins to illuminate the natural coral reefs. It can even walk across the island is facing the sprint. In the afternoon, when the sun sets, from beach front could see the pink clouds reflected trying to sparkling water, as scenes from an existing poem.

At Night, we can just lie on the floor and listen to the sea breeze caress, every crunch softly whispering waves, straight  boats from far and pandanus trees silhouetted flutter down to the small lamp emanating from the solar system on the island.
No Internet , no TV and  not the everyday hustle ... Just  be close to nature to appreciate your life in this very accumulation moments...

By Gray line Halong