travel42 Hotel Review: Vinpearl Resort & Spa Ha Long

Vinpearl Resort & Spa Ha Long travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Halong (or Ha Long) Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage site located two and a half hours north of Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital.

The dramatic limestone karst topography so typical of many parts of Vietnam and neighboring South East Asian nations is typified by a myriad of sculptured, forest-covered islands along the Gulf of Tonkin in the far north of Vietnam. (In 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident involving the USS Maddox led to the Vietnam War.)

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