The board, that is encouraging the people to vote for Ha Long, is doing its best to promote the bay around the world and the bay has been selected twice by UNESCO as a world natural heritage.

Vietnamese has now overtaken Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

In July this year, a vote will be held to choose 77 from 261of the world’s greatest landscapes. The organising board will then choose 21 of them before finally selecting the new seven wonders.