Explore heritage and collect trash at the same time
These days, the atmosphere in Ha Long Bay and Lan Ha Bay becomes more vibrant. There are still caves, limestone mountains stained with time, or calm water coves, but between the sound of oars splashing water, there are the voices of tourists, some tour guides and sailors chatting while rowing and picking up all kinds of trash floating on the surface of the bay.
Heritage Binh Chuan crew and visitors pick up floating foam buoys in the Frog Pond area while kayaking.
From 7:30 a.m. every day since the storm, Mr. Le Van Uy and the sailors on the Heritage Binh Chuan yacht have become diligent workers. Mr. Uy is from Thanh Hoa and has been working at sea in Quang Ninh for more than ten years. In addition to his responsibilities as captain, every day Mr. Uy and the sailors and tourists collect dozens of bags of floating trash in the Ao Ech area of Lan Ha Bay, even though Typhoon Yagi has passed for a month now.
"Because the kayak is small, with only 1 to 2 people sitting, we cannot collect much trash. However, there are also foam buoys - which are items from fish rafts torn apart by storms, as big as barrels. Every day we collect dozens of them. The trash is gathered at the back of the yacht waiting to be brought ashore the next day," Mr. Uy shared.
Mr. Michel Lannion, a French national, one of the guests on the October 10 cruise on the Heriatage Binh Chuan cruise ship, also joined the crew in cleaning up trash. "This is my first time in Vietnam. With its wild beauty and majestic limestone mountains, Lan Ha Bay is one of the most beautiful bays in the world. However, there is still too much trash here. I know your country has just been devastated by Typhoon Yagi, so I want to contribute to beautifying the landscape," Mr. Michel confided.
Similarly, visitors of Orchid Cruise - one of the cruise ships of Pelican Group, also regularly participate in cleaning up trash on the tour route in Lan Ha Bay. The oars become reluctant trash rakes. It can be a foam buoy, a torn net, a piece of wood, a tree branch or a plastic bag floating on the surface of the Bay.
The silent work of sailors and tourists contributes to cleaning Lan Ha Bay.
"Tourists saw a lot of trash at the kayaking spot in Tra Bau area so they picked it up and brought it back to the boat. Foreign tourists' awareness of environmental protection is very high. Although the amount of trash collected is not large, they still contribute to cleaning the bay environment," said Mr. Nguyen Duc Hung, tour guide of Orchid Cruise.
Join hands to "heal" after storm number 3 Yagi
While tourists and crew members of Heritage Binh Chuan and Orchid Cruise contribute to cleaning up Lan Ha Bay every day, some tourism workers and tourists also roll up their sleeves to clean up the road through Cat Ba National Park with the authorities.
Previously, the Ha Long Bay Management Board said that after 3 peak days of cleaning Ha Long Bay (from September 15-17), the units collected nearly 500m3 of garbage and more than 70 floating bamboo rafts, contributing to overcoming the situation of garbage causing loss of aesthetics, environmental pollution, restoring the landscape, and continuing to attract tourists to Ha Long Bay.
"At Cat Ba National Park, Cat Ba Forest Rangers are making great efforts to clear the route. In fact, many forests were severely damaged, and many old paths were destroyed by storms, so it will take another 10 days to completely clear the route. After clearing the route to Long Dai, we decided to head to Viet Hai. Rolling, crawling, and dragging each step on the final leg to reach the finish line," that is one of the pieces of news that Ms. Nguyen Thi Nham, Deputy Director of Aroma Viet Nam Travel Company, reported about the situation of the trekking route about 8.5km long through Cat Ba National Park.
A week after Typhoon Yagi passed, Ms. Nham and her colleagues at the company became reluctant tourists who contributed to "healing" this familiar trekking route. Seeing them struggling to carry large tree branches, without anyone telling them, some foreign guests also joined in to help. "We organized trips to Cat Ba National Park ourselves to repair the damage after the storm. An entire green forest had collapsed, many areas were almost bare. Trees were scattered and blocked the path. After nearly half a month of cleaning up with the authorities, the trekking route through Cat Ba National Park was reopened," Ms. Nham excitedly announced.
Orchid Cruise visitors kayak and collect trash in Tra Bau area.
Just like Ms. Nham, CEO Pham Ha - owner of Heritage Binh Chuan yacht, along with hundreds of staff from Lux Group and several other units, organized a trip from Hanoi to Ha Long to participate in... "healing" the environment here. Such activities have become a "healing" tourism movement for Ha Long Bay in recent days.
"Departing from Hanoi early in the morning, the LuxGroup volunteer group - including company employees, students, employees from many other businesses, tour guides and international tourists currently in Ha Long - launched a campaign to join hands to clean up Ha Long Bay. The volunteers enthusiastically cleaned Tuan Chau beach, collected waste from boats and floating houses washed ashore by storm Yagi," a representative of Heritage Binh Chuan announced on September 21.
Previously, the Ha Long Bay Management Board launched a campaign to collect garbage in the heritage area. Hundreds of cubic meters of garbage were collected by participating units, organizations and individuals to the collection point for disposal. Up to now, the collection and cleaning work at the Tuan Chau International Passenger Port dock, tourist attractions and on the water surface is still being carried out by organizations and individuals operating in Ha Long Bay to quickly restore the landscape of the heritage bay.
Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/trai-nghiem-du-lich-chua-lanh-sau-bao-so-3-yagi-192241015140225813.htm
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