Cat Ba Island

Cat Ba is a relatively substantial island next to Ha Long Bay, just offshore from the major port city of Hai Phong. It is, naturally, primarily a fishing sort of place, most of the island itself is forest and mountains. And tourism, there is a lot of tourism there. The island is home to a National Park with a few trekking trails, and apparently some unique species of plants and animals such as the Golden-Headed Langur (monkey, that is, monkey), or in Vietnamese, Voọc. That’s a strange word even in Vietnamese – I think the only word I know of that uses a double “o”. Anyway, pictures of the countryside on Cat Ba.









“The banana forest at Dumgaze, the banana forest at Dumgaze! They’re there, they’re there! You cannot see them but they’re there!”