Online Travel Vietnam: The Red River (Song Hong) located in northern Vietnam was listed as one of the eighteen most beautiful sites on earth by Russian magazine Ria Novosti last week, together with American Grand Crayon, Indonesian Komodo national park, and Russian Baikal Lake.
"Our planet is enormous. If you decide to travel around it, you will go about 40,000 kilometers. And if you decide to visit every country, you will go even farther. For those who don't have the time to travel, here is a series of photos," wrote the magazine in the introduction.
Ria Novosti describes Red River as the cultural and historical centre of Vietnam on their site.
The Red River, which gets its name from its reddish-brown heavily silt-laden water, flows from southwest China through northern Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin.
At 120 kilometers long and 140 kilometers wide, the river is one of the major highways of the coastal strip and thus acts as an important transportation link between China and Vietnam.
Today, Red River is not only an important hub of transportation but also a touristic site in Vietnam.
Some other beautiful sites on earth chosen by Ria Novosti:
1
Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil is one of the most powerful waterfalls in the world
2
Called "the sea" by locals, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, containing more water than the five Great Lakes combined
3
Geyser Valley in Kamchatka - one of the largest geyser fields in the world, and the only in Eurasia
4
Livingstone Zoological Park in Zambia is home to about 1,300 wild animals.
5
The Kuril Islands - a chain of volcanic islands between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the island of Hokkaido
6
Komodo National Park was founded in 1980 and covers an area of 603 sq km of land and 1,214 sq km of sea. The most famous animal is the Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard
Source: Tuoitrenews
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