Let’s vote for Ha Long Bay!

Ha Long Bay

The voting processing is divided into two phases: nomination and voting.

Readers can visit the above website to nominate natural landscapes as world natural wonders because the organisers want to collect opinions from all over the world before announcing the list of 21 bright ‘candidates’. After this phase is voting and the results will be announced on 8 August 2008.

According to the organiser, NewOpenWorld organisation, the nominated sites must be natural landscapes not altered by humans.

NewOpenWorld lists 15 categories to help people to easily define and select natural sites. Big forests, natural reserves can become world natural wonders.

Under the list, besides Ha Long Bay, Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park in the central province of Quang Binh and Nha Trang Bay in the central province of Khanh Hoa are also potential candidates.

Vietnam has many beautiful natural landscapes and this selection is a chance for you to put Vietnam on the world tourism map.

NewOpenWorld is based in Switzerland and managed by Swiss billionaire Bernard Weber. Based on the viewpoint that six of seven wonders of the ancient world don’t exist anymore, Mr Weber established NewOpenWorld in 1999 to conduct campaigns to re-select world wonders.

Some sites introduced by the organiser:

Aletsch Glacier,  Switzerland

Baikal Sea, Russia

Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada

Galapagos Island,  Ecuador

Geirangerfjord, Norway

Grand Canyon, USA

Great Barrier Reef,  Australia

Iguaçu Waterfalls, Argentina/Brazil

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Kilimanjaro,  Tanzania

Redwood National Park, USA

Sagramatha Park, Nepal

Serengeti Park, Tanzania

(Source: VNNet)