The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) is calling for more votes of both Vietnamese and citizens and foreigners for selecting Ha Long Bay as one of the world’s seven natural wonders.
The appeals follow a program launched by the Switzerland-based New Open World calling for people worldwide to nominate and vote natural monuments and landscapes as world natural wonders.
Ha Long Bay in Vietnam’s northern Quangninh province, UNESCO-recognized cultural heritage, is named in the list of candidates which is post on
www.natural7wonders.com.
The organizers list water and sea, cave and grotto, coastline and cliff, forest and wood, glacier, forest and natural reserve among the categories to help people identify and nominate their natural wonders.
If Vietnam’s landscape is selected as a world wonder, this is opportunity and advantage to advertise the bay in particular and the country’s tourism sector in general, VNAT head Hoang Tuan Anh said.
Anh revealed that the beautiful landscape of Ha Long Bay will be at the center of commercials about Vietnam's tourism hotspots to be aired on CNN in the third quarter of this year.
The Ha Long Bay, meaning “Descending Dragon”, covers more than 430 square kilometers and is dotted with nearly 800 limestone and islands that rise spectacularly from the ocean, and is renowned for diverse geographical features such as a unique system of caves that were formed by the encroaching sea.
It is also home to a diverse ecological system that includes mangrove forests, tropical forests and coral reefs that are inhabited by more than 1,000 species of fish and marine animals.
The final results will be announced on August 8, 2008, or 13 months after New Open World disclosed the world's new seven artificial wonders in Portugal. (thanhniennews, VNA)
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