Ha Long Bay, meaning the «Bay of the Descending Dragon», is home to almost 2000 limestone islands and islets, each topped with
dense jungle vegetation and rising spectacularly from the ocean.
Our guide meets us and brings us to Tower hill bridge, where we will start our journey down river to Lamanai, passing
dense jungle vegetation and a Mennonite community.
Not exact matches
Its location in the heart of an anomalous tropical desert means that unlike in the Amazon or the
jungles of Central America, the fossils are not covered by
dense vegetation.
The centre and highest point of the island is a small but
dense jungle of tropical
vegetation inhabited by parrots and tiny sunbirds.
They were situated deep in the
jungle and we had to trek quite a ways on paths through the
dense tropical
vegetation in order to get from one structure or group of ruins to the next.