Cai Beo Fishing Village
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Cai Beo fishing village (also known as Vung O fishing village, belonging to Cat Ba archipelago, Cat Hai island district, Hai Phong city) is one of the largest ancient floating villages in the country in prehistoric times.
This is a fishing village with about 300 floating rafts. The life of the inhabitants of Cai Beo fishing village is associated with fishing activities and fish cage farming in the bay.
Legend named: "Cai Beo"
“Cai Beo” is a name that was formed thousands of years ago, associated with the formation and development of the ancient Cat Ba people, who moved from the forest to the sea to find food from the ocean.
"Cai" is a word that refers to a type of beach in the afternoon, when the tide is low (low water) fishermen often come to collect seafood such as: cockles, snails, mai, sang, ha... The old Cai Beo area was a large area, rich and diverse aquatic resources, and at the same time, it is a safe place for boats and arrays to hide in rough seas and high winds. Boats of fishermen from all over the world flock to catch and collect seafood in this area more and more. “Flowing water, floating duckweed” is a natural phenomenon, where rivers in the Northern Delta often have Beo (a very common aquatic species) following the flows of rivers into the sea.
The ancient fishermen likened that the boats and the fisherman's plates came and gathered in this awkward area like "beo wings drifting all over the sky". From here, the word Beo was formed, combining with the letter to form the name "Cai Beo". The name Cai Beo is also used as the name of Cai Beo Tourist Wharf, Cai Beo Fishing Village, and Cai Beo Archaeological Site today.
From a distance, Cai Beo Bay appears very beautiful with green water, undulating rocky mountains mixed with the clear blue sky. The poetic beauty of nature and the bustling life of the fishing village create a rare beauty. On the floating water, the fishing village consists of many houseboats linked together into groups. Not only boats on Cai Beo bay there are also floating houses that are closely linked by fish cages. From house to house can easily step to other house on a small bridge across or on cages.
Coming to Cai Beo fishing village, visitors can experience an interesting way of renting a boat to visit among households raising fish and learn about the life of the people in the fishing village. Not only that, visitors can also comfortably admire the poetic scenery of the bay and enjoy special dishes made from fish, comedian, and shrimp on floating restaurants by the hands of the fishing villagers capture or raise. Activities in fishing villages are unique, interesting and rare activities. There are hundreds of large and small fish rafts in a large bay area..png)
Every morning, when the sun rises over the sea of Cat Ba, the fish squirm around asking for food to disturb the whole water area, mixing with the children's calls to go to school in the fishing village... will be an interesting experience with visitors.
Cai Beo fishing village is associated with Cai Beo archaeological site, ranked as a national relic in 2009. It is rare to find a place where the natural landscape is associated with and in harmony with cultural relics like here. Along with the hustle and bustle of life. Cai Beo always attracts tourists with two beauties that blend between dream and reality.