Cai Beo Floating Village Làng chài Cái Bèo
Floating fishing village beside Bến Bèo
Floating fishing village by Bến Bèo: pass its raft homes and fish farms as your Lan Ha boat heads out. Some 200 to 300 households live on the water here, on a shore people settled about 7,000 years ago. You see it from the bay boat without a separate trip.
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Boats and floating houses at Cái Bèo, below the cliffs
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Cái Bèo is a village of floating houses and fish-farming rafts in the sheltered water off Bến Bèo, with limestone cliffs rising behind. Between 200 and 300 households live and raise seafood on the water.
Photo: Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The shore is also an archaeological site, found in 1938 and dug again several times since. Pottery found here dates from about 7,000 years ago, and the site was ranked a national monument in 2009.
The standard Lan Ha boat crosses Cái Bèo bay on its way out, so you pass the village without a separate trip.
Getting there and around
The village lies off Bến Bèo, 1.5–2 km by road from the town center. Lan Ha boats leaving Bến Bèo cross Cái Bèo bay first.
From Cat Ba town
1.5–2 km by road to Bến Bèo. The village is on the water beside the quay.
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