Where can I get a good map?

Question

I am staying in youth hostel in Hanoi, 33 Luong Van Can str. I intend to do a tour to Cat Ba Island by myself but I can not find a good map about this Island. I search in Yahoo map, google map, wikemedia map already but it is not so pleasant. Who can send me a good map of Catba Island? or show me how to find it?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I hear you about Google Maps and Google Earth. Both have pretty good satellite pics of Cat Ba Island and Ha Long Bay, but the detail is rather clinical. What you need is a real good tourist map and tour guide!

Go to Trang Tien Street, where all of the bookstores are in Hoan Kiem District. There is a big bookstore in the International Business Center building, which CitiBank is on the first floor. You will know which bookstore that I'm talking about, because it's real big.

Unless they moved it, the tourist section is close to the front of the store (to the right as you're walking into the store). You will know that you found it, because you will find every Vietnamese tour map and tour guide that has ever been printed there.

My recommendation is a multi-colored tour map of Haiphong and Ha Long Bay, which includes Cat Ba Island. An assistant in the store will know which one that I'm talking about. It should cost about 10,000 - 20,000 VND. Make sure it is the recent map and not something printed a couple years ago. If they try to sell you the old map, don't pay more than 10,000 VND for it.

While at Cat Ba Island...

There is a real good sea food restaurant next to the pool hall. It is absolutely the best sea food restaurant in all of Cat Ba. A meal and beers should set you back about 60,000 - 100,000 VND.

Take the jungle hiking tour, but make sure you are in good shape and take a big bottle of water. It was by far the most difficult and most scenic hike that I have ever been on.

Have fun!

Answer 3

go to google map..they use satelite view.