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All Around Cat Ba Island in Vietnam
I’m going to break travel writer ranks and make a bold but honest statement: the main beaches at Cat Ba island just aren’t that marvelous. There. Said it. Shot me, slander me or write indignant letters to my editor, I don’t care.
Of course, they’re not terrible and I’m sure with a weighty thesaurus and some time (maybe years) spent buried neck deep in the bleak pebbles of England’s worst beaches they could be made to sound utterly lovely. But compared with the breathtaking postcards of Central Vietnam’s coast they pale noticeably. And the town in summer becomes as painfully crowded as the sand.
But there’s an unexplored side to this island that makes it worth the few-hours’ trip from Hanoi. Cat Ba National Park is a place so replete with flora that the honey produced with flora that the honey produced there is touted as some of the best in Vietnam. The bees have so much to feed upon (1561 species of flora belonging to 186 families).
