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Ngoc Vung Island |
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Ngoc Vung,
 or Gem Island, is a
pretty site sitting between the Nét
Islet and Phuong Hoàng (Phoenix) Island,
in the Vân Don District. From above,
Ngoc Vong looks like a beautiful velvet
handkerchief with exquisite white
edgings; it seems to float on the water
surface. On the east side of the island
there is a kilometres-beach with pure
white sand. At the centre is a luxuriant
benjamin fig tree; it was under this
tree that Ho Chí Minh stood and
conversed with the population in 1962
during a visit.
Formerly, under the feudal dynasties,
this island zone contained a great
quantity of rare and precious species of
mother-of-pearls. At night, fluorescent
pearls would light up the whole region.
So there are several islands having name
“Ngoc” such as Ngoc Vung (dazzling
pearl), Minh Châu (Ngoc Châu)...
During the war against the US, the
island belonged to a front of outward
islands that served as protection for
the eastern waterways.
It is also on the beach that many stone
artefacts were discovered in 1937,
opening a string of excavations and
archaeological research aiming at
providing some explanations of the
mysteries of the ancient Ha Long
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