Monkey Island – The Highlight Of Cat Ba Tourism

With beautiful natural scenery, Cat Dua Island or Monkey Island has become a highlight of Cat Ba Tours. This is also the first stop on Lan Ha Bay.

Halong Bay Cat Ba Tour – Monkey Island is a large island in nearly 400 islands, belong to the Cat Ba islands. With beautiful natural scenery, Cat Dua Island or Monkey Island has become a bright spot of Cat Ba tourism. This is also the first stop of the tour in Halong Bay Vietnam.

Monkey Island or Cat Dua Island?

Monkey Island is about 1 km away from the Cat Ba town. To get to Monkey Island, tourists usually take a boat from Beo wharf about 10 minutes passing Cai Beo fishing village, passing some small islands and then proceeding to Monkey Island. Monkey Island has a circumference of about 3 km. This is a vasty sandy island formed by millions of waves and winds bringing sand, rocks, coral, shellfish, shells, shrimps and crabs to the foot of the mountain that created a sandy beach stretching for miles.

The island is called Cat Dua (Sandy-Pineapple) because there are many wild pineapple trees on the island, pineapple looks delicious but inedible. People who go fishing often take it to soak to cool drinking water or dry to treat diabetes. It is also an ideal place to swim with clear blue water and white sand formed from the coral debris.

The official name of the island is Cat Dua, but people as well as tourists often called Monkey Island because the island has more than 20 monkeys, were released by forest rangers. Due to frequent contacting with tourists, the monkeys are very brave. They often feed and play around the area where many tourists are gathered, even eat food from tourists.

Sometimes they are naughty, poke visitors and make some guests startled. However, the monkeys here are very cute, capturing the love of most tourists especially children.

Amazing moments

Monkey Island has two beaches in the form of the arc that is beach Cat Dua 1 and beach Cat Dua 2. In which beach Cat Dua 1 is longer and there is military camp garrison. This is an ideal beach for tourists to travel to Cat Ba because the sea water in here is extremely clean blue. There are restaurants so guests can sit on the beach to enjoy the sea breeze, buy drinks, ice cream … with some services for visitors such as bathing clothes, float, kayak…

Beach Cat Dua 2 is located on the right side of the tiger-shaped mountain. The beach has a garden of several hundred m2 with plants such as wild pineapple, maple trees, white apple trees … and many different birds. Beach Cat Dua 2 is narrower but very beautiful and modern, with high-quality service, that is the favorite resort of tourists “generous”. Especially, the water in Monkey Island is clean and clear, making it an ideal beach for tourists.

Coming to Monkey Island, visitors who like to explore can climb up the middle of the mountain, even up to the top of the mountain to view the panoramic view of the Lan Ha Bay with hundreds of large islands rising up the sea water. With the beach is quite wild so tourists often come here to relax, visit and sea bathing.

With the pristine beauty that nature has given Monkey Island, this destination is becoming a destination cannot be missed when coming to Cat Ba. It is more wonderful when you can immerse in the blue water or lying on the beach or watch the romantic sunset. Let’s come to Cat Ba for a great relaxing moment.

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