Halong Bay has been listed in the world’s 10 new wonders of nature by the New Open World Corporation, two days before the poll ends. By November 6, Halong Bay of Vietnam had more than 8 million voting messages.

The others in the top ten include: the Dead Sea in Israel, Palestine, and Jordan; the Grand Canyon in the US; the Great Barrier Reef off Australia and Papua New Guinea); Jeita Grotto cave in Lebanon; Jeju Island in South Korea; Komodo Island in Indonesia; Puerto Princesa Underground River in the Philippines; the Sunderbans in Bangladesh and India; and Vesuvius Mountain in Italy.

 Eamonn Fitzgerald, the person is in charge of the New Open World Corporation, said the list could change in the remaining days of the campaign before the final list was released November 11.

Tran Nhat Hoang, director of Vietnam Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Tourism Promotion Center, said that Halong Bay has great hope to enter the list of seven wonders if Vietnamese continue voting by phone.

The Tourism Promotion Center has mobilized 300 volunteers to join online forums to urge members to vote for Halong Bay.

To vote for Halong Bay, one has to go to the website http://www.new7wonders.com and follow instruction on the website or send a text message (“Halong”) or ("HL") to 147.

On September 27 New7Wonders Foundation chairman Bernard Weber announced that Ha Long was among the 28 finalist candidates for the new seven wonders of nature.

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