Cat Ba travel experience

The convergence between the forest and the sea, Cat Ba is the ideal destination for families every summer. To avoid the situation “not to know whether to laugh or cry”, the following information would be useful luggage for your trip to Cat Ba.



Transport

From Ha Noi to Cat Ba:

If you start from Ha Noi and haven’t got your own car, you should buy a ticket of many bus companies in Luong Yen bus station. The ticket fare about 65,000 – 70,000 VNĐ (~ 3 USD) to take you from Ha Noi to the Tam Bac station (in Hai Phong City). From the Tam Bac, you can catch the bus to Dinh Vu ferry, or can go to the No 4 – Le Thanh Tong street (it is the address of Hoang Long transportation) and buy a ticket to Cat Ba. At Dinh Vu port, maybe you swich to the high speed cruise and it take 25-30 minutes to Cat Ba island. If you don’t like to use cruise, you can use ferry to go to Cai Vieng port, and then catch coach to the Cat Ba center. Always keep in mind, there are a lot of ferry trips from Dinh Vu to Cat Ba, it starts at 5 AM and finishes at 5 PM everyday.

From Cat Ba to Ha Noi:

There are two high-speed ships from Cat Ba to Binh station at 6.00 AM and 14.30 PM and then go to bus station and catch the bus to come back Ha Noi. Remember you must go to Cai Vieng port before 17.00 PM to ferry to Ha Noi.

Sleeping

Cat Ba has dozens of hotels, in all price categories. Many are tall, thin ugly concrete numbers painted all shades of a faded rain- bow, but some better options are starting to emerge. Most hotels are situated on (or just off) the waterfront in Cat Ba Town and have at least one staff member who speaks English. For more of a back-to-nature scene there are a couple of beachfront options close to Cat Ba Town, including one on a private island. Room rates fluctuate greatly. In the high- season summer months (June to August) you can expect to pay a minimum of US$15 per room; rates sink to below US$10 for a decent room outside this time. The rates given here are for low season. Peak season rates are im- possible to determine as hotel owners tend to pick a number out of their head depending on demand.
There are many hotels are rated highly: Hoang Ngoc Hotel, Sea & Sun Hotel, Holiday View,….

What to Do?

Bathing

Come to Cat Ba, visitors can not fail to the famous beaches in the island. The beach is only a few hundred meters from the hotel. About twenty minutes to take walks along the coast and then through a small canyon, visitors have come to beaches Cat Co 1. Standing on beach looking down, visitors to easily find a sandy beach by the water’s edge year-round tilt whispering surf.

Looking afar, toward the end of the beach, a small bridge to connect beach beaches Cat Co 1 and Cat Tien as silk squeezed through the mountains. Go across the bridge to Cat Tien beach, crab crossing obscured the mountain, a new patch of sky is open and a beautiful beach wild mix out front.

Here, visitors can swimming, relaxing sun and enjoy the fresh breeze blowing in from the ocean.

Will be missing if not to the beaches Cat Co 3. This is the latest tourist Cat Ba Island. Cat Co 3 beach is quite nice and built modern tourist service here is perfect from the beach, rest, eat and drink.

Visiting the islands

Cat Ba has many small tourist boat tours take visitors on the sea, marine tourism service here is quite good. Guests only need to notify the hotel where they can leave the ship to visit Cat Ba.

Long, Cat Ba is known for Lan Ha Bay-Bay is located in Ha Long Bay populations, if traveling on Lan Ha Bay scenery of mountains, sea, certainly gives visitors many amazing However, interesting.

Note: Cruise the beautiful Lan Ha Bay and bathing in the bay, the waves calm but there are many rocks, so you will very easily scratched legs and knees.

Traveling on Lan Ha Bay usually comes at Ben Beo, also comes right at the dock when each region at the request of visitors. Just over 20 minutes, at sea, the ship will take visitors to Monkey Island. Actually this is the Pineapple Cat Island-an island located on the Lan Ha Bay, in recent years, Cat Ba National Park and Forest Cat Hai district has put a new monkey on this island should be so named. When introduced on live with nature but also very close to people, they love playing with tourists. Pineapple Cat is the ideal bathing place. Here blue water and a clean, finished after swimming to shore lying on the sand enjoy the sun, it is interesting.

Cat Ba National Forest

For many years, Cat Ba National Park is an eco-tourist attractions and is particularly attractive for tourists who like adventure. Park has 4,500 hectares of primary forest are often mixed flora of broad-leaved forest, coniferous and broad-leaved evergreen closed forest tropical limestone karst development. Park has a variety of animals, rare plants, it is a place preserving genetic variety.

Unique point of the park is up to 22 species recorded in Vietnam Red Book and 6 species recorded in the red world. In some animals recorded in the world, the Red Cat Ba National Park is the first white langurs, this species is endemic to Cat Ba.

The tour to Cat Ba National Park this season often brings travelers a new feel. From Cat Ba town, only a few dozen feet away on the open road on to the garden door. The car, visitors can zoom around eyes, sucked in to receive fresh air of the mountains.

What to Eat?

Seafood is rich in Cat Ba fresh tu particularly successful comedy raised on the island. In addition, there are special forest equally delicious and attractive.

Sam 7 items

Dishes taste delicious sea, just unique, naturally, always ensure fresh. Marine Sam processing many different foods such as pudding, salad, sweet and sour foot pole sam, sam sao discharge peppers, fried eggs or nests sam guise leaves, steamed crabs, crab fried breaded, baked cartilage sam, sam acres of sorghum … The food is delicious crab meat and unique.

Tu Hai

Tu Hai more food processing such as baking, salad, porridge … the processing as follows: snout otter soaked 2 to 3 minutes in a pot of hot water around 80-90 degrees, then wash the outer shell, then content varies slightly along the slit of the nozzle. From the tap at the meat delicious comedy, long, long, soft and sweet. From comedy to delicious dishes depends on a lot of spices such as garlic, shallots are shredded, then fried oil, chopped onion and mix, then dip in fish sauce, glutamate, pepper …

Special mention must be steamed dishes from comedy. After steaming for 15 minutes, for two to a disc, snout otter scent mingled with the smell of spices fascination. Make decorations to ingenious comedy Tu appetizer dish cool and attractive. From comedy to eat just steamed dishes just cool bar, with its own sweet aftertaste. Steamed meat from brittle comedy, mingled with the smell of aromatic spices tingle.

Grouper

Grouper is a fish of warm waters, the Pacific Ocean up to 37 species. In our country there are about 30 species including several species of high economic value. The Cat She has three kinds of fatty fish song, song song black and statements. Data grouper is fish feeding animals and high nutritional value. From Grouper people processing more tasty, nutritious, such as salad, soup, hot pot, steamed, sauce, grilled …

Five most popular dishes of Nha Trang

Being a coastal city and the capital of Khanh Hoa province on the South Central Coast of the country, Nha Trang is one of the most attractive destinations for international tourists in Vietnam. Nha Trang is not only famous for the pristine beaches and excellent scuba diving, but also for its special delicacies.

Here are 5 must-try foods list for people first coming to Nha Trang:

1. Lac Canh’s Grilled Beef:



The secret of making perfect grilled beef lies on the recipe of mixing beef with honey and more than ten kinds of spices. The recipe is handed down from generation to generation, and only known to specific members of restaurant owner’s family. Customers are free to grill the beef and enjoy the dish in their own way.
Lac Canh’s grilled beef is so favored by tourists that it appears in many famous international travel guides.
Where to try:
Han Hon Minh restaurant (opened since 1963)- 44 Nguyen Binh Khiem- Nha Trang- Khanh Hoa.

2. Rice vermicelli with grilled fish and jellyfish- Bun cha ca:



It’s “bun cha ca” broth, which is made from boiled sailfish and mackerel’s bones, that determines the exclusive taste of this specialty. Different from the fatty boiled pork bones’ broth; “bun cha ca” broth is sweet and savory, especially suitable for people who are going on a diet. A bowl of Nha Trang’s “bun cha ca” also contained jellyfish and steamed sailfish.
Where to try:
Bun ca Nam Beo- Block B2- Phan Boi Chau- Nha Trang- Khanh Hoa

3. Lang Chai’s Seafood:



Before visiting Hon Tam, Bai Soi or Bai Mini beaches, tourists are advised to drop in Lang Chai to buy some seafood. Customers can choose fresh seafood which is raised in cage under the sea by their own hand. After that, people will sail to nearby restaurant by ferry, where seafood will be immediately prepared and cook. On mainland, tourists can consume fresh seafood at reasonable price at Chieu Anh Restaurant.
Where to try:
Chieu Anh Restaurant- 86 Tran Phu- Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa

4. Banh can- “Can” cake



Sitting around the warm fire of coal brazier, watching the cook skillfully pouring flour into moulds , and then enjoying hot “banh can” in a windy day is an unforgettable experience for anyone when in Nha Trang.
“Banh can” is a popular snack in Central and Southern regions of Vietnam, including rice flour, lard, spring onion and eggs. The cakes are sold in pair, and served with special sweet and sour dipping sauce made from Nha Trang’s famous fish sauce, and raw vegetables.
Where to try:
Crossroad of Le Thanh Ton and Nguyen Thien Thuat Street

5. Grilled fermented pork roll- Nem Nuong:



When mentioning Nha Trang cuisines, we definitely cannot neglect grilled fermented pork roll, also known as Ninh Hoa’s or Nha Trang’s fermented pork roll. We can eat fermented pork roll fresh (nem chua”) or grilled (“nem nuong”). However, most of the tourists will choose “nem nuong” to enjoy in Nha Trang, and buy “nem chua” as the gifts for family at home. Grilled directly with the fire of coal brazier, fermented pork roll is served with raw herbs as well as dipping sauce with pickled green papaya.
Where to try:
Nem Nuong Vu Thanh An- 15 Le Loi- Nha Trang- Khanh Hoa. The restaurant is crowded with customers from late afternoon till midnight..