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Halong Bay


Halong Bay
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Copyright: Chinh Hoang Nhan (chinhhn) (41)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-07-28
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon Powershot S3 IS
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-07-29 7:40
Viewed: 557
Points: 2
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Halong Bay is a bay located in the Gulf of Tonkin, 170 kilometres east of Hanoi, in northern Vietnam near the border with China. The bay has a 120 kilometre long coastline and is approximately 1,500 square kilometres in size. "Vịnh Hạ Long" (Halong Bay) means "Bay of the Descending Dragon" in the Vietnamese language.
The bay consists of a dense cluster of 1,969 limestone monolithic islands, each topped with thick jungle vegetation, which rise spectacularly from the ocean. Several of the islands are hollow, with enormous caves.
Some of the islands support floating villages of fishermen, who ply the shallow waters for 200 species of fish and 450 different kinds of mollusks. Many of the islands have acquired their names as a result of interpretation of their unusual shapes: such names include Voi Islet (elephant), Ga Choi Islet (fighting cock), and Mai Nha Islet (roof). 989 of the islands have been given names. Birds and animals including bantams, antelopes, monkeys, and iguanas also live on some of the islands.
The bay was World Heritage listed by UNESCO at the 18th meeting of the Committee of the World Heritages of UNESCO (in Thailand on December 17th, 1994). It is one of Vietnam's most popular tourist destinations.
(By Wikipedia.org)
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A nice, wide-angle shot. I think that some work needs to be done on this one with some editing software to better balance the light levels. The right side needs to have the darker areas lightened, and the slightly overexposed sky needs to be toned down. A thin black border might work really well too.

beautiful photo
ciao
franco

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