Ba Trai Dao Beach

Thanks to the crystal-like water there, travelers can enjoy swimming at Ba Trai Dao Beach much better than any other beaches in Halong Bay. That is a good place when you go on a vacation with children and family. Your children can play on a nice sandy beach there!

1. Overview

Ba Trai Dao Beach is a beautiful and pristine beach in Halong Bay and Lan Ha Bay. With white sand, it is an ideal beach for swimming and relaxing on your holiday. Ba Trai Dao Beach is chosen in the itinerary of some cruises in Halong Bay and cruises in Lan Ha Bay. 

Ba Trai Dao Islet (Three Peaches Islet) is a group of 3 limestone islets having shapes like three peaches so local people call it Ba Trai Dao or There Peaches Islet.

Ba Trai Dao Beach is a beautiful and pristine beach in Halong Bay and Lan Ha Bay

2. Location

Ba Trai Dao is located about 22 km from Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province. It is close to Cat Ba Island – One of the largest Islands in Vietnam. Click Here for more details about Cat Ba Island.

3. Legend of Ba Trai Dao Beach

When you are in Vietnam or Asia, you may listen to a lot of legends like the legend of Halong Bay and Ba Trai Dao has a legend.

The legend has it that, once upon a time, there was a fairy who fell in love with a poor fisherman. The fairy who was the youngest daughter of God stole  3 peaches from heaven for her bellowed fisherman because she wanted him to be immortal with her forever. The God noticed and he got angry and turned 3 peaches into 3 stone mountains there in Halong Bay. Therefore, local people named them 3 Peaches Islet or Ba Trai Dao.

Ba Trai Dao is located about 22 km from Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province

4. What To Do in Ba Trai Dao

Ba Trai Dao Beach is far from Halong City and it is less touched by tourists because most Halong Bay 1 day or 2-day Halong Bay tour cuises are not able to get to this area. Therefore, Ba Trai Dao is one of the best beaches in Halong Bay.

With the clean blue water, it is a nice beach for swimming. Besides that, you can go kayaking there around the mountains and that is great. Ba Trai Dao is a very nice beach but you can go swimming there for only 2 to 3 hours per day due to the tide in Halong Bay.

It is quite far from Halong Bay and Lan Ha Center so only some cruises have itineraries going there. On some wavy days, the cruises may not go there for safety because it will be wavy on the way to get there.

There are some cruises that have itineraries going there like Scarlet Pearl Cruise, Halong Bay Catamaran Cruise.

Ba Trai Dao Beach is far from Halong City and it is less touched by tourists