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Hotel Information

Here is the list of the hotels that offer special prices to the participants of SoICT 2012. All the hotels are located in the “Halong Road” of Halong City. If you are interested in any hotel in the list, please send your request for reservation to the conference secretariat at least two weeks before the conference's dates.
Some remarks:

• The reservation email should include: name of participant, hotel, type of room, check-in date, number of nights, number of people and special requests (if any).
• On conference days, the participants of SoICT 2012 altogether will be offered one round trip between Hotels and the Conference Venue by taxi or by foot.
• In the list, “Distance” means the distance from a hotel to the Conference Venue

	Hotel: Conference vanue: Halong Plaza Address: No 08, Halong Street, Halong City, Vietnam Distance: *Conference Vanue                 *To the beach: 1,5 km                 * To the main pier for Ha Long Bay cruises: 3km. Website: / Rate: Superior:70 USD/room/n          Deluxe: 95USD/room/n          Junior Suite: 145USD/room/n

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	Hotel: Heritage Halong Address: 88 Halong Road, Bai chay ward, Halong city VN. Distance: * Conference Vanue: 1km                 * To the beach: 50m                 * To the main pier for Ha Long Bay cruises: 1km. Website: Rate: Superior: 110 USD          Deluxe: 140 USD          Suite: 230 USD

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	Hotel: Novotel Halong Hotel Address: Ha Long Road, Bai Chay Ward, Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam Distance: * to the Conference Venue: 50 m                 * to the beach: 200 m                 * to the o the main pier for Ha Long Bay cruises: 03 km Website: Rate: Standard: 109 USD/room/n          Sup-Bay view: 123 USD/room/n          Executive: 146 USD/room/n

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	Hotel: Van Hai Hotel Address: No: 08, Halong Street, Halong City, Vietnam Distance: * to the Conference Venue: 50 m                 * to the beach: 1,5km ( center Beach )                 * to To the main pier for Ha Long Bay cruises: 3 km Website: / Rate:Superior: 35USD /room/night          Deluxe: 55 USD/room/night          Suite: 65 USD/room/night

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	Hotel: Bach Dang Hotel Address: No 02, Halong Road, Halong city, VN Distance: *To the conference venue: 10 m.                 * to the Beach : 1,5 km                 * to To the main pier for Ha Long Bay cruises: 4 km. Website: / Rate:Single or Double: 36USD /room/night          Triple: 47 USD/room/night          Family: 52 USD/room/night

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	Hotel:Dream Halong Hotel Address: No 10 Halong Road, Halong city, Vietnam Distance: *To the conference venue: 1 km                 *To the beach: 200 m                 *To the main pier for Ha Long Bay cruises: 3km Website: Rate:Superior: 66USD/room/night          Deluxe: 119USD/room/night

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	Hotel:Buu Dien Hotel Address: Halong Road, Bai Chay, Halong city, Vietnam Distance: *To the conference venue: 500m                 *To the beach: 10 m Website: / Rate:Superior Hill view: 30 USD/room/night          Deluxe sea view: 38USD/room/night

Tours to Ha Long Bay - World Heritage Site

Introduction to Ha Long Bay

The legend of Hạ Long has it that, “Once upon a time, soon after the Việt people established their country, invaders came. The Jade Emperor sent Mother Dragon and her Child Dragons down to earth to help the Việt people fight against their enemy. Right at the time invaders’ boats were rushing to the shore, the dragons landed down on earth. The dragons immediately sent out from their mouths a lot of pearls, which then turned into thousands of stone islands emerging in the sea like great walls challenging the invaders’ boats. The fast boats couldn’t manage to stop and crashed into the islands and into each other and broke into pieces.

After the victory, Mother Dragon and Child Dragons didn’t return Heaven but stayed on earth at the place where the battle had occurred. The location Mother Dragon landed is nowadays Hạ Long Bay and where Child Dragons descended is now Bái Tử Long. The dragons’ tails waving the water created Long Vĩ (present Trà Cổ peninsula) and formed a fine sand beach over ten kilometers long”.

Hạ Long Bay is located in the northeastern part of Vietnam and constitutes part of the western bank of Bắc Bộ Gulf, including the sea area of Hạ Long City and Cẩm Phả Town and part of Vân Ðồn island district. It abuts Cát Bà Island in the southwest.Toward the west is the shore with a 120 km-long coastline. It is located within 106o58’-107o22’ east longitude and within 20o45’- 20o50’ north latitude. The site is 1553 sq. km with 1969 islands of various sizes, of which 989 have been named.

The islands in Hạ Long Bay are mainly limestone and schist islands most lying in the two main areas: the southeastern part of Bái Tử Long Bay and southwestern part of Hạ Long Bay. These islands represent the most ancient images of a geographical site having a tectonic age of from 250 million to 280 million years. They are the result of many times of rising and lowering processes of the continent to form a karst. The process of nearly full erosion and weathering of the karst created the unique Hạ Long Bay in the world. In a not very large area, thousands of islands with different forms look like glittering emeralds attached to the blue scarf of a virgin. The area where many stone islands concentrate has spectacular scenes and world-famous caves and is the center of Hạ Long Bay Natural Heritage, including Ha Long Bay and a part of Bái Tu Long Bay.

The area is recognized as the World Natural Heritage that is the area of 434 sq. km with 775 islands. It looks like a giant triangle with Ðầu Gỗ Island (in the west), Ba Hầm Lake (in the south) and Cống Tây Island (in the east) as its three angle points. The nearby area is the buffer area and areas classified as national beauty spots in 1962 by the Ministry of Culture and Information.

Viewed from above, Hạ Long Bay looks like an extremely vivid huge drawing. This is a wonderful and skilful masterpiece of the Creation and 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 uneven in the fanciful waves look strong and magnificent but also mild and vivid. Amidst these islands we feel as if we were astray in a petrified legendary world. There are many names given to islands according to their shapes and forms. This one looks like somebody heading toward the shore: Hòn Ðầu Người (Human Head Island); that one looks like a dragon hovering above the sea surface: Hòn Rông (Dragon Island); another looks like an old man sitting fishing: Hòn Lã Vọng; some look like big sails struggling amidst the wind to set off for the sea: Hòn Cánh Buồm (Sail Island); then two islands look like a pair of chicken lovingly playing with each other above the sea: Hòn Trống Mái (Male and Female Chicken Island); and amid the vast sea stands an island like a big incense burner like a ritual offering to Heaven: Hòn Lư Hương (Incense Island)All are so real that people are taken aback by them. Those stone islands have experienced unpredictable changes over time and they take different shapes from different angles of view. Here, we come to realize that they are not dumb inanimate things but are vivid and soulful.

Inside the stone islands are various breath-taking caves, such as Thiên Cung, Ðầu Gỗ, Sửng Sốt, Trinh Nữ, Tam Cung and others. These are really magnificent palaces of the Creation on earth. Long ago, Hạ Long Bay has been called by the great national poet Nguyễn Trãi:“a wonder of the earth erected towards the high sky”. Many men of letters from all over the world have been taken aback at the grandiose scenery of Hạ Long. They seem to get puzzled and incompetent as their treasure of vocabulary is not rich enough to depict the splendor of this place.

TOUR 1: Huong Hai Junks Itinerary 2 days 1 night

Day 1: Halong - Huong Hai Juck (D)