Ninh ranks sixth among the world’s top ten destinations for sailing
cruises by the US’s National Geographic book Journeys of a Lifetime.
The book wrote “Ha Long Bay, or the Bay of the Descending
Dragon, in northeastern Vietnam, is scattered with some 3,000
precipitous, strangely sculpted limestone islands and outcrops, and
dotted with small floating villages and deserted sandy beaches.
“In
spring and early summer the water is particularly calm and clear. This
UNESCO World Heritage site is best explored by a cruise on a junk.”
The other nine destinations are Nova Scotia and Labrador Tall Ships of
Canada; San Juan Islands, Washington; Pirate Cruise, Grand Cayman
Island of the UK; Star Clipper to French Polynesia of France; Junk
Cruise, Andaman Sea of Thailand; Seychelles Islands of Seychelles; Dhow
Cruise, Straits of Hormuz of Oman; Lamu Island of Kenya; and Evia Island
Cruise of Greece.
Earlier, Ha Long Bay was also listed among the
world’s top ten best and romantic destinations for 2011 by the UK
’s Lonely Planet magazine./.
