Posted by admin on September 30, 2008 under Halong Bay Cruises, Halong Jasmine cruise | 
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Officially open on 18 December 2007, our newest four star junk will set the standard for services and amenities on the bay. Fitted out in the 1930’s Indochina style, the Halong Jasmine will feature 22 spacious cabin, restaurant, lounge and two special Jasmine Suites with their own Jacuzzi & balcony for uninterrupted views of the bay.
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Discover the splendors of Halong Bay aboard the Halong Ginger, a wooden junk that combines classic beauty with modern comfort. Measuring 38 meters (125 feet) in length, this newly built, custom-designed yacht features three decks that house an elegant restaurant, two bars, a small library, and a massage room-plus ten luxurious sleeping cabins. With so much space, passengers can truly unwind and enjoy the bay’s magnificent scenery.
While all those who visit Halong Bay are charmed by the archipelago’s beauty, few visitors are aware that the three-thousand islands that dot this bay are home to many rare plants, including species found nowhere else in the world. We chose our boat’s name-Halong Ginger-because, like the plant it was named after, our junk is perfectly suited to this environment. With its golden sails, polished woodwork and refined, Asian décor, the Halong Ginger offers an unforgettable ambiance of relaxed elegance. Join us, and see Halong Bay in style.
In-Room Amenities
Sport Activities
Tour Programme by Ginger Junk Cruise
+ Ginger Junk Cruise (2 days/1 night)
+ Ginger Junk Cruise (3 days/2 nights)
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Bai Tho Junk is a traditional junk, small enough to be intimate but large enough to be comfortable, is the perfect way to explore the bay. The Bai Tho boat has 4 cabins, 5 cabins, 6 cabin, 7 and 8 cabins, 10 junk cabin and especially 18 cabins, all -conditioned, en-suite cabins and a glorious picture-window salon with sofas and easy chairs, this vessel elegantly explores the islands and bays. The Vietnamese food on board is exceptional, served by friendly local staff.
Joining in our trip, you will have an unforgettable experience on a splendid, luxurious cruise as well as enjoy the superb sceneries in Ha Long bay – a famous World Heritage – with more than 3000 islands and islets rising from deep emerald sea water, dipping yourselves in natural beautiful landscapes, feeling the clean and fresh air, watching the dawn and sunset and particularly the moonlight over the bay
Furthermore, our cruise trip will take you to many wildly island in exotic and different shapes created by the erosion of water on limestone mountain, such as Fighting cock island, Incense Urn island, Tortoise island…You will have the feeling as comfortable as in your own home thanks to our 6 well- equipped rooms on the junk, with bathroom, air -conditioner, dressing table and wardrobe.
The standard designed and deluxe main hall on the cruise is the place where you can watch the views and listen to the whisper of the sea. There is also the top deck for those who love sunbathing. Please come to the cruise’s bar for relaxation, entertainment as well as for drinks. You can also enjoy delicious Vietnamese dishes prepared by gourmet cuisine at the dinning room.
Bai Tho Junk consist of 13 junk boats offering daily and overnight on boat cruise to visit Halong bay.
Junk General Information:
There are several Junks with different number of cabins on boats. + 1 Junk boats with 18 cabins
+ 4 Junk boats with 10 cabins each
+ 3 Junk boats with 07 cabins each
+ 3 Junk boats with 06 cabins each
+ 1 Junk boat with 04 cabins
+ 1 Junk boat with 02 cabins
Cabin Facilities:
All Junk boats have double or twin bedded cabins with AC, TV. Private ensuite bathroom
and proper toilet facilities with hot & cold shower. Cabin size is 10m2.
General Facilities:
Indoor restaurant with excellent cuisine, fresh seafood. Video recorder, Stereo system, Mobile phone and VHF system.
35 KVA e-generators are set up on boats. Kayak service.
Services:
Staff are enthusiasm and professional. Very skillful in food preparation
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HalongDiscovery.com is the brand name of Huong Hai company, one of the Top ones with more than 10 year experiences in tourism trade at Ha Long Bay. With the professional working style and at hand experiences, Huong Hai Junks has been found out it own trading way by marking in the visitors’ hearts with professional service as well as traditional modeled junks, offering overnight tours of the Bay, giving visitors the chance to enjoy the incredible panorama in an atmosphere of colonial grandeur and old-fashioned luxury The Huong Hai Cruise has been gradually become a famous trading name, both in domestic and international scales.
Philosophy and Mission
Become the number one company in the popular seagoing tourism service in Vietnam in Ha Long bay area,
Motto
Quality is the most important element – Reasonable prices – Perfect services
Always maintaining the quality of the products, meeting the requirements of customers. Keeping up the good relationships with customers
Objectives
Contributing to the Vietnam tourism industry, popularizing Ha Long bay to be the attractive tourism spot, the destination for all visitors from inside and outside Vietnam, having part in building up good images of a typical, impressed and charming cultural, eco tourism spot.
With the well-trained and experienced staff, Huong Hai Junks always looks forward to provide customers our most perfect services.
Operation fields
Providing seagoing tourism services (especially at Ha Long Bay)
History
With more than 10 years participating in the tourism trade at Ha Long Bay with an experienced group of ships, Huong Hai Junks is a reliable trademark. Huong Hai Junks has been found out it own trading way by marking in the visitors’ hearts with professional service as well as traditional modeled junks, a picture-perfect reproduction of a 19th-century paddle wheel steamer, offering overnight tours of the Bay, giving visitors the chance to enjoy the incredible panorama in an atmosphere of colonial grandeur and old-fashioned luxury
The Huong Hai Cruise has been gradually become a famous trading name, both in domestic and international scales. All the junks with the name HUONG HAI JUNKS are styled with both classical and modern designs, Huong Hai Junks has brought the visitors the most wonderful atmosphere and the moments when witnessing and enjoying the sightseeing itinerary on Ha Long Bay through nights by Huong Hai Cruise.
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About Indochina sail
Indochina Sails is a brand name of HuongHai, one of the top tourism services companies in Ha long Bay. Service, quality and luxury are the hallmarks of this meticulously sails, which epitomize style, flair, wonderful comfort and the latest modern amenities. Moreover, its experienced and highly motivated crews look forward to make your trip impeccable and unforgettable.
Philosophy and mission.
Our philosophy is to provide our guests with as much information as possible to help ensuring correct choice for their holiday. We strive to make sure that every holiday meet and hopefully exceeds your individual needs and expectations.
Motto
Comfort – quality service – charming – reasonable prices
Comfort: all the rooms present modern amenities to make your stay enjoyable.
Service: is our objective n°1. We are at your disposal to inform you or to share with you the best way to discover this World Natutal Heritage.
Charm: these sails develop their own identity which will make your stay marvelous and unforgettable.
Reasonable prices We offer very reasonable prices for both individual guests and collaborators, and we also apply various price policies for different seasons. Moreover, we often provide attractive promotions. Please visit our site frequently to get hot promos.
Objectives
The company became the number one in the high-ranking seagoing tourism service of Vietnam, both in Ha long Area, Hong River basin in the North and Mekong Area in the South. It is thus contributing to promote Ha long bay to the world class and good images of a typical, impressive and charming culture, and to develop the Vietnamese tourism industry. Our qualified, experienced and motivated staff always looks forward to provide customers perfect and outstanding services.
Operation fields Seagoing tourism services, especially at Ha Long bay 5 star restaurant at Ha Long Bay High-ranking resorts at Phu Quoc – a beautiful and famous island in the south of Vietnam. Travel services in over Vietnam.
History
Indochina Sails is one of the first companies specializing in luxury cruises in Ha long Bay with more than 10 years of significant experience. Its 3 new ships named Indochina Sails 1, Indochina Sail 2 and Valentine recently came into service in 2007, confirmed again its objectives of charm, comfort and perfect services; increased its capacity many times higher before. Indochina Sails became the first choice of many tourists from inside and outside Vietnam for their trip to the World Natural Heritage – Ha Long bay.
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Tel : (84-4) 984 2362
Fax : (84-4) 984 4150
Email : info@indochinasails.com
Website: http://www.indochinasails.com
CRUISE HALONG
(Halong Ginger, Halong Jasmine, Halong Violet)
Tel: (84-4) 984 2807
Fax: (84-4) 984 4538
Hotline: (84-9) 12 438 588
Email: info@cruisehalong.com
Website: http://www.cruisehalong.com
TROPICAL SAILS
(Lagoon explore, Dragon’s pearl)
Tell: (84-4) 923 2559
Fax:(84-4) 923 2560
Email: info@tropical-sails.com
Website: http://www.tropical-sails.com
Tel: (84-4) 934 0888
Fax: (84-4) 825 5342
Hotline: (84) 913 028 100
Mail: sale@emeraude-cruises.com
Website: http://www.emeraude-cruises.com
HUONGHAI JUNKS
Tel : (84-33) 845 042
Fax : (84-33) 846 263
Email : info@halongdiscovery.com
Website: http://www.halongdiscovery.com
BAITHO JUNKS
Tel: 084.4.9124340 / 2183334
Fax: 084.4 .9260736
Email: info@baithojunk.com
Website: http://www.baithojunk.com
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Ha Long Bay is said to be a magic land of natural sea bay beauty, attracting more and more tourists ever since UNESCO’s recognition of its nature!
Location & Climate
Ha Long Bay is located in the Northeast of Vietnam, belonging to Ha Long city, Quang Ninh Province, in the Gulf of Tonkin. On the world map, it has borders to China in the North and adjacent to the East Sea in the East .
The Bay has a medium size of 1,553 square kilometers. It is accomodation of many fishing communities, including the 4 communes of Cua Van, Cong Tau, Vong Vieng and Ba Hang with a population of more than 1,600 people. The residents live on floating houses and boats, making their own lives by fishing and aquaculture.
The bay is a sea islands in tropical wet with 2 seasons: hot and moist summer, dry and cold winter. Average temperature is from 15°C- 25°C. Annual rainfall is between 2,000mm and 2,200mm. Ha Long Bay has the typical diurnal tide system (tide amplitude ranges from 3.5-4m). The salinity is from 31 to 34.5MT in dry season and lower in rainy season.
Historical name
Literally, “Ha Long” means “Bay of Descending Dragons.” Before the 19th century, this name was not recorded in any document or archive. In this term, there is a mysteriously legendary tale as follows
“Long ago, in the first founding days, the Viet people were attacked by foreign aggressors. The Jade Emperor sent the Mother Dragon and her band of Child Dragons to help the Viet people fight the invaders. While the enemy vessels were launching massive attacks against the mainland, the dragons descended in flocks from the sky. They spat out innumerable pearls which changed into jade stone islands the moment they touched the water. These islands linked together to form firm citadels that checked the enemy’s advance and smashed their vessels to pieces. After the invaders were driven out, Mother Dragon and her Child Dragons did not return to Heaven but stayed on earth, right at the place where the battle occurred. The spot where the Mother Dragon landed was Ha Long, and where the Child Dragons came down was Bai Tu Long. The place where their tails violently wagged was called Long Vi, the today’s Tra Co Peninsula with its soft sandy beach stretching a series of kilometers.”
Gifted Beauty & top sightseeings
In 1962, the Ministry of Culture and Information classified Halong Bay as a National Landscape Site, covering an area of 1,553 km2 with 1,969 islands. Halong Bay has been recognized twice by UNESCO as a World Heritage Area for its universal values of landscape, geology and geomorphology, respectively in 1994 and 2000, an area of 434 sq. km. including 775 islands.
The dense cluster of 1,969 limestone monolithic islands within the bay is topped with thick jungle vegetation, which rise spectacularly from the ocean. Most of the islands were formed over 500 million years ago, and massed in the Southeast and Southwest. Those in the Southeast have an average height of 50-200m, covering lots of flora. Several of the islands are hollow, with enormous caves. Hang Đầu Gỗ (Wooden stakes Cave) is the largest grotto in the Ha Long area. French tourists visited in the late 19th century, and named the cave Grotte des Merveilles. Its three large chambers contain large numerous stalactites and stalagmites (as well as 19th century French graffiti). There are two bigger islands, Tuan Chau and Cat Ba, that have permanent inhabitants. Both of them have tourist facilities, including hotels and beaches. There are a number of wonderful beaches on the smaller islands. The others are Bai Chay, Ti Top, Minh Chau, Quan Lan and so forth.
Viewed from above, Ha Long Bay looks like an extremely vivid huge drawing, and sailing beneath the bay is like leisuring in between a huge valey on water. Ha Long bay is exactly a wonderfully skillful masterpiece of Nature that turns thousands of dumb soulless stone islands into fantastic sculptural and artistic works of various graceful shapes, both familiar and strange to human beings. Thousands of islands emerging in the fanciful waves look strong and magnificent but also mild and vivid. Amidst these islands tourists may feel as if they were astrayed in a petrified legendary world. The names given to the islands were based on their shapes and forms, such as, Human head Island, Sail island, Fighting cocks islands… Inside the stone islands are various breath-taking caves like Thien Cung, Dau Go, Sung Sot, and others. These are really magnificent palace of many huge stalactites hanging poised in mid air and stalagmites growing majestically upwards. Ha Long’s sea is always the same, blue, smooth and still.
What is more, the bay has its own seasoned beauty. In Spring, buds of trees burst on limestone islands. In Summer, it is cool and clean with many sparkling sun rays reflecting from the sea’s surface. In Autumn, especially at night, moonlight illuminates the mountains, making them like gold, inlaid into the earth. In Winter, with pervasive frost, Ha Long is glamorous as “a floating flower basket on smooth wave” (by writer Nguyen Tuan). All of them, stone, water and sky, make the Aesthetic value of Ha Long Bay.
The Bay’s Geological value is evaluated in two ways: by the history of its formation and its karst geomorphology. It is also home to the ancient Viet people beginning from 7,000 to 18,000 years ago, Ha Long’s Cultural − Historical value. Besides, Bio-diversity is an important natural resource, to be well-conserved so as to maintain the ecological balance of the whole region.
Ha Long Bay is undoubtedly not only a national but also a world nature, a magnificient work of Natural Creator. People who are admirers of natural beauty should stand up, pack their luggages, and right away pick up a flight to Ha Long, or else they will soon feel regretful!
