Ban Chan beach-the sleeping beauty in Bai Tu Long bay

If you’re considering a destination for your vacation at Halong bay and fed up popular spots that are crowded all year long, here a potential candidate for your bucket list: Ban Chan beach, one of the top 20 tourist attractions in the area of Halong bay.

It is no doubt that Halong Bay is a magnet to tourists in Vietnam for years thank to the great gift of amazing landscape from the Creation. But things’ve always got the other hands, Halong bay and its beautiful beaches are getting more and more crowded. Thus, people starts to seek for more pristine places to enjoy the amazing nature but still peaceful.

The amazing Bai Tu Long bay

While the beaches in the center of Halong bay is now full of tourists, to the North of its lays the hidden gem Bai Tu Long Bay, the triplet of the World heritage Halong bay and the forgotten paradise Lan Ha bay, which still keeps its primitive shape. The secret of the great preservation is thank to the fact that a large part of Bai Tu Long bay belongs to the National park that is under the strict protection, and the result is that the environment here is protect quite well and now we have the chance to admire the masterpiece of the nature left on Earth millions of years ago.

Being a small beach belonging to Bai Tu Long bay and less popular that other cousins, Ban Chan beach (literally means Foot in English) is a good example of what is called “untouched”. It is guessed that the place doesn’t look quite different compared to its original self hundreds of years ago. Without the intervention of human being, the little heaven with its pure white sand and jade water could charm any fan of nature. The white sand stretches kilometers creating a stunning path for strolling will offer you a great opportunity to set bare feet on the sand, walking in the sun, inhale the fresh breath of the Ocean and enjoy the majestic landscape.

The primitive Ban Chan beach

The beach is truly a princess guarded by limestone towers, it’s a gorgeous princess of the Ocean sleeping quietly in the vast of jade seawater with evergreen foliage of casuarina pines as stunning hair floating in the air.

For Vietnames tourists, most of them would love to visit the sea areas in the summer to run away from the heat but in fact autumn is the best time to fully enjoy the beauty of Ban Chan beach. Autumn is the period when the sun of summer is less severe, the air is less humid, light wind of the sea blow gently bring the fresh air to the beach and the cold is yet to come. This is the time when the sea water is in its best jade and its temperature is just perfect for relaxing our body.

The unspoiled beach

Being known by its unspoiled and primitive scenery, visitor hardly can stand being charmed by the beauty of Ban Chan beach. This place is one of those rare destinations that deserves to be cosseted. Be gently to go for a walk along its stunning white sand beach, admire the jade water, limestone towers floating on the seawater and the evergreen of the long standing forest or cool off in the crystal clear water is already so perfect that you could feel no more requirements.