Hai Phong is a large port located near a major international maritime line. For hundreds of years, the Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese have been coming here to trade. Nowadays, it is still a commercial centre, an industrial city and an important transportation hub. Moreover, visitors can enjoy a lot of beautiful landscape as well as interesting festivals such as Cat Ba Island, Do Son Beach, the buffalo fight festival, etc., just to name a few.

Cat Ba National Park
Some 50km east of Hai Phong, about half of Cat Ba Island (total area: 9,800 ha) and 5,400 ha of adjacent inland water were declared a national park in 1986 in order to protect the island’s diverse ecosystem. These include tropical evergreen forests on the hills, fresh water swampy forests at the foot of the hills, coastal mangrove forests, small fresh water lakes, sandy beaches, eery caves and off-shore coral reefs. Part of all this is still very dense and unknown to the civilised world. Cat Ba is accessible by hydrofoil (1 hour) from Hai Phong