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External view of the magical island caves in Halong Bay, Vietnam. [PHOTO: JOE OMBUOR/ STANDARD]
About 275 kilometres north of the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, towards the border with China lies Halong Bay, a tourist attraction with a difference.
A throng of limestone rock islands jutting out of the South China Sea, about two kilometres away from the mainland hide marvels listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as the seventh wonder of the world.
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