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The forests cover over 17,300 ha, including 570ha
of primeval forests. Under the old foliages is
hundred of rare
medicinal trees, there is a tonic tree of one bulb
and one leaf only, particularly good for human's
heart. Cat Ba has a typically rare flora and fauna
of limestone mountain forests, there are also many
marvelous grottoes, white sandy and clear water
beaches that you can see to sea bed. In old
forests there is ancient Komodo varan and chamois
species of average weight of over 100kg each. On
Cat Ba Island, there are many fishing grounds with
shrimps, red snapper, anchovy, trap fish,... and a
grass cover to breed tortoise-shells. Cracked
stones
areas under the sea at the island's foot, there
are abalones, pearl-oysters and lobsters. On the
shallow tide field, there is Tu hai (mollusca
family) that is considered as "sea chicken", its
meat is more delicious than abalone. Tu hai
grilled with lemon is indispensable special dish
in restaurants at the edge of the sea.
On the first of April in 1958, Uncle Ho visited
Cat Hai and Cat Ba islands. Cat Ba wharf was a
place where he stood to talk with people and army
who were living on the islands. Since then, the 1st
April - the date when Uncle Ho visited fishing
villages - was chosen by fishery industry their
traditional anniversary. Every year, on the first
of April the dragon boats race of district island
and of whole nation fishing industry is held on
the sea of Cat Ba.
Beauty-spots in
Cat Ba
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Trans-island road:
27km long with many mountain pass, meander cols,
slopes, along the sea shore, through National
Pack, spectacular array of sea and island
scenery.
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Cat Ba National Park:
15 km to the North - West of the town. This Park
covers an
area of 15,200 ha,
including 9,800 ha of forests with splendid
grottoes. In tropical and primeval forests,
there is a rich
fauna
and flora. There are 745 species of plants, including
various species of rare wood trees
so as Tri Ly, Lat Hoa, Lim Set, Gie Hoa, Kim
Giao, white wood. Kim Giao chopsticks used to be
offered to Kings
which can cause bubbles and turn itself into red
when touched poisoned food. Cho dai tree that
c an
be found in the old forest is endangered specie
named in the Red Book, the only other
in the world where
we can find this tree is Hymalaya mountain. Cat
Ba National Park is home to 20 species of
mammals, 69 species of birds, 20 species of
reptiles and species of amphibians, species
of 11 frogs. Particularly, the rarest animals in
the world that can only be found in Viet Nam is
Vooc (white faced monkeys). Another strange is
Ma Tien fruit, a toxic fruit, if a person eats
Ma Tien he will die immediately, but the
white-faced Vooc can eat both leaf and
fruit to feed themselves.
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Trung Trang Grotto :
15km from the town, close to the trans-island
road. There are a lot of beautiful natural
stalactites that makes you feel like flying
high, visiting the Elysium on earth. The grotto
can accommodate hundreds of people.
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Hung Son grotto :
13km from the town, on the trans-island road.
Another name is "Army Medical Grotto" because in
the sabotaged war by America, an army hospital
was built in the grotto with capacity of
hundreds of beds in the mountain. This structure
wrote feat of arms about courage of people.
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Phu Long Grotto (Cai Vieng):
recently found, it is considered more beautiful
than Trung Trang grotto. In the grotto,
stalactites and moisture steam make us imagine
the way to sky, the way to sea, many
quintessential vaults, golden mountain, silver
mountain...
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Beaches :
Cat Co 1, Cat Co 2, Cat Dua, Cat Ong, Duong Danh,...
are small rainy, secretive, shaded bathing
grounds with fine white sand and clear water. A
theme park called "Palace under the sea" will be
built to enable human to directly observe
porpoises, lobsters, sharks, sea tortoises,
cutlet-fish,.. slowly wandering near red corals.
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array of sea and island scenery, it covers an area
of 20,000ha in the North-East of Hai Phong. It
takes about one hour by high speed ferry to go to
the island, or by land it is about 60 km passing 2
ferries, you will easily reach the pearl island.
In the spacious sea, we suddenly see a tropical
jungles. 
