Day 4 (1/6) - Halong Bay Night Market

For various tourists who visit Halong City, Halong Night Market is a place that they should not miss out. The market is a group of more than a hundred stalls selling diverse types of products, such as handicrafts, handmade accessories, clothes and other items such as swimwear, lotion or hats. Tourists tend to come to this place to purchase unique products of the city- necklaces made from seashells, snails, wooden small boats or T-shirts with images of Halong Bay. Tourists can expect a great variety of souvenirs in the night market, something for them to bring home to remind them of Halong City. Halong Night Market opens 7 days a week, from 6pm to midnight. 

Shopping for goodies!

Day 4 (6/1) - Pearl Workshop

One of the destination was a visit to the pearl workshop at Halong Bay. The students were able to witness the whole process of making a valuable and expensive pearl jewellery. Most of them were very surprised by the magical process to create the beautiful jewellery from the skillful hands of artisans.

The locals have a lot of experiences in growing the oysters and producing big and round pearls. It was amazing how intricately the artisans worked on their pearls after they are harvested from the water. With sophisticated techniques and specialized tools, the artisans skillfully create a perfect pearl.

Different types and grades of pearls

Machine to make a hole in the pearl for jewellery

Learning about how pearls are made

Day 4 (1/6) - Ha Long Bay

Halong Bay is a wonderful sculptural work of nature. Its blue sea holds thousands of islands in various dramatic forms, standing in groups or scattered around. Ha Long Bay's ancient karst landscape results from complex geological processes taking over five hundred million years, resulting from the earth's movements, sea regression, tectonic down-warping and sea transgression, to create thousands of limestone islands emerging from the sea.

Many of Halong Bay's limestone caves have been 11000 to 700000 years in the making. These caves are the results of water seeping into cracks and slowly eroding the limestone. Halong Bay is a biodiverse site with ecosystems including: tropical rain forests, mangrove forests, tidal mud flats without mangroves, sandy tidal flats, sea grasses, coral reefs, caves and lagoons.

Though receding in number, Halong Bay is also the home of fishing communities, where the traditional cultural values are well-preserved.

All aboard the junk! 🚤

The icon of Halong Bay

Getting ready to enter the cave

Up the steps! 

Beautiful view of Halong Bay

Sung Sot Cave!

On our way to Sung Sot Cave😀

Out of the cave! 

Sketch of Ha Long Bay by Jansley

Enjoying the view😎

Yummy lunch!