Cua Van floating village Làng chài Cửa Vạn
Raft houses on route 3
Floating village on route 3: boat about 20 km out and row past the raft houses. A bamboo boat is 60,000 đồng a person for an hour, and a kayak is 100,000 đồng a boat for an hour. The floating cultural centre is in a restoration project. Love-duet singing at the village resumed in March 2026.
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Raft houses and boats under the limestone at Cua Van
Photo: David Stanley · CC BY 4.0
Cửa Vạn is the floating village on route 3, about 20 km from Tuần Châu and from the Ha Long passenger port. You leave the tour boat for a bamboo boat or a kayak and move among the raft houses. The channels between the islands are the shelter the boats use.
Photo: Gregor Dodson · CC BY-SA 2.0
The floating cultural centre opened on 19 May 2006, funded by Norway, as part of the Ha Long ecological museum. It showed the fishing life from before and after people moved ashore. While the building is in restoration, the village stop is the boat and the singing, which returned in March 2026.
Getting there and around
Route 3, VHL3, runs from the port to the Cửa Vạn floating cultural centre, then Tiên Ông cave, Hồ Ba Hầm, đền Bà Men, Áng Dù, and Rừng Trúc. The village is about 20 km from both passenger ports. The bay entrance for route 3 is 200,000 đồng a person on the board fee page.
From the Ha Long port
About 20 km by boat to the Cửa Vạn area. The English port line is Beach road, New Beach, Bai Chay ward.
From Tuan Chau
The same 20 km, from Cảng tàu khách quốc tế Tuần Châu. Decision 2119 of 19 July 2024 starts VHL3 at the port.
Hours and fees
- Hours
Check on arrival
- Closed
Day tickets on the fee page run 06:30–18:30. Confirm the sailing on the day you go.
- Admission
Route 3 entrance, Decision 4278/2016, still on the board fee page: 200,000 đồng a person. A one-night stay on route 3 is 500,000 đồng entrance, and two nights are 650,000 đồng. On the water, updated 9 November 2024: a bamboo boat is 60,000 đồng a person for an hour, and a kayak is 100,000 đồng a boat for an hour. Free under 1.2 m or under 7. Half price for a Vietnamese citizen 60 or over. Twenty percent off from age 7 to under 16. From 10 December 2025 a bay ticket needs an identity card or a passport.
Also in Ha Long Bay
Overnight on the bay Nghỉ đêm trên vịnh
A night on a bay boat: stay 24 hours from departure and keep the limestone after the day boats leave.
Bai Tu Long Bay Vịnh Bái Tử Long
The bay east of Ha Long: take one of ten boat routes from Ao Tien or Cam Pha.
Fighting Cock Islet Hòn Trống Mái
Paired rocks on the short boat: watch the gap from the deck in daylight, inside the 3–4 hour route.
Kayaking on the bay Chèo kayak trên vịnh
Paddle a kayak among the limestone: about an hour from a licensed pontoon on the boat routes.
Luon Cave Hang Luồn
Water cave on the long boat: row or kayak through the notch into a lake on a 5–6 hour route.
Poem Mountain Núi Bài Thơ
A 106 m hill over Cửa Lục: take in the flag, the roofs, and the bay on a shore stop in Hồng Gai.
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