Bong Lai is not a place of interest or a real place located in Shandong province (China). This place first appeared in the ancient Son Hai Kinh to show a mountain growing on the sea, surrounded by a crowded city and bustling horses and cars.
After that, in the great nightmare of giving birth, Qin Shi Huang (259 - 210 AD) sent Su Phuc's men to find Bong Lai on the Bot Hai sea to ask for medicine to give birth. And finally, in Yen Dai city (Son Dong), there is Bong Lai attic, where people go there to hope to see the fairy island of Bong Lai appear at sea as if they were aomed on December 22, 2023.
That is the story of Bong Lai in China, but in the land of Ha Tien famous for these 10 beautiful landscapes, the fairy island of Bong Lai is real, not a illusion of smoke and fog. Even not only a fairy island but a chain of 3 beautiful islands connected by a fairy tale that appears every day.
Ha Tien's Bong Lai archipelago is located in the West Sea, belonging to the Ba Lua archipelago, in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand. Up to now, people often only know Phu Quoc as the pearl island of Ha Tien sea area, but they do not know Ba Lua archipelago with more than 34 large and small islands, located on a sea surface area of about 70km2.
From the mainland to Ba Lua archipelago is about 6km, very close but it is related to a spectacular story of geological creatures. The islands in these archipelagos are all made up of Paleozoi sedimentary rock (civilized about 500 million years ago).
This island is the final section of the Ta Lon range (located in Cambodia) that has sunk due to the movement of the painting period of the Himalaya range hundreds of millions of years ago. Therefore, the shape of the islands, the structure of rocks and mountains on the islands has a strange, strange and very impressive look
The most famous symbol in Ba Lua archipelago is the scenic spot of Phu Tu island - one of the Ten River - as beautiful as a marine painting appearing on the turquoise, turquoise water that is very typical of the southwestern sea of the country.
Hon Phu Tu consists of 2 adherent stone blocks forming a close-knit Cha - Con shape, about 30m high, below is a 5m high stone pedestal, Hon Phu is over 33m high, and Hon Tu is 30m high, creating an extremely sparkling and airy canopy shape in the midst of the wind and day.
Thanks to the process of reforming Paleozoi sedimentary rocks, Hon Phu Tu has all the top characteristics of a rattan structure that meets all standards such as: crows ( thin, shallow), thorn (wheat), black ( then lossy), thorn (dense), rcky (ugly, strange) ...
Thanks to this unique beauty of Phu Tu island, the whole sea area suddenly became charming. Therefore, that rock has just become a national scenic spot and a symbol of Ha Tien tourism, even though it is not possible to avoid the law of the city - pillar - ruins - forest of creation, when in August 2006, Hon Phu collapsed into the sea.
That is called a real fairy-tale scene that seems like a dream, but when you see it with your own eyes, it becomes a virtual scene. Our mood and vision are very likely to be "bustling" when traveling in this magical sea, especially in the place "Bong Lai" with a very strange name, Ba Hon Dam.
Ba Hon Dam is due to the three islands that make up this Bong Lai fairy island cluster, named Hon Dam Duoc, Hon Dam Duong and Hon Dam Gieng. They do not separate from each other to become independent like Hon Heo (the largest island in the Ba Lua archipelago), but are still an individual in the Hon Dam 3 cluster.
Each Hon Dam is a "utopia oasis" in the middle of the ocean, forming a magical triangle. It is a primitive dreamland with a beach as calm as a lake mirror, the water is turquoise, only high from calves to chest, the bottom is covered with colorful pebbles.
As mentioned above, the fairy island of Bong Lai in Bot Hai sea rarely appears, while the fairy scene in Hon Dam is commonly seen every day. That magical scene was when the tide came down. At that time, the road is covered with smooth white sand, so that we can travel through the 3 islands with our feet.
On the journey through 3 islands, you will witness the generosity of nature for this place. In the shallow water swamps where all three islets are together, there are many shell-shaped and two-piece marine creatures such as snails, clams, clams, as well as shrimp, crab, and small fish.
Even more miraculously, people do not have to spend effort to catch them, just need to wander on the sand road connecting the other 3 islands to pick up or dig up seafood. But get up quickly, because in just one moment, this miracle will disappear. When the tide rose, the three islands simultaneously shouted "adventure" to return to the lonely land.
But whether they can pick any snails or clams or not is not a problem. Sitting in the middle of this scenic spot to enjoy peace of mind due to the wild sea and sky that brings to people is already a gift of the highest.
Just sit leisurely on the smooth white sand shade shining brightly under the sunlight - the color that makes the beaches in the Maldives suffer the fate of " desolation, less green" - is a great happiness for those lucky to set foot in the forest.
Only the warm sunlight of the body, only the gentle water on the skin and meat, only the cool wind to soothe the nerves without the chaos and instability of everyday life. Suddenly remembering Nguyen Trai's poem written for another fairy tale, but why is it like this place, a fairy tale scene falling to the human world:
The right-hand sea is flat,
The pre-Flood years.
The lily of the university students,
The scene of human hair.
Translation:
The gate of the sea has a mountain,
In the past, the way back was familiar.
Non-compliant in the traditional sense,
The water surface is flooded with lotus stems...
