Cai Beo Floating Village

Cai Beo Floating Village is a historic fishing village located on Cai Beo Bay near Cat Ba Town on Cat Ba Island, Hai Phong, Vietnam. Considered one of the oldest floating villages in Vietnam, it consists of several hundred floating houses and fish farms anchored in the sheltered bay. The village is adjacent to the Cai Beo archaeological site dating back 7,000 years and offers insight into traditional aquaculture and maritime life amid limestone karst scenery.

Visitors can expect a sheltered bay with clusters of floating houses, wooden boats, and aquaculture rafts set against limestone karsts. Access is only by hired boat from Cat Ba Town or Beo Wharf. Visitors cruise between floating homes, observe fish and shellfish farming, see daily fishing activities, and view the shoreline archaeological area. There are no streets to walk; the experience is entirely boat-based with photo opportunities of the bay and village life.

Adjacent to the Cai Beo archaeological site, excavated in 1938 and later, which revealed Neolithic remains dating from approximately 7,000 to 5,000 years ago. The site shows early settlement by fishing communities and is considered one of the earliest archaeological sites in northeastern Vietnam, linking the floating village tradition to ancient maritime culture.

Represents the traditional floating fishing culture of Cat Ba and Lan Ha Bay, where families live on floating houses and sustain livelihoods through aquaculture and fishing. The village demonstrates long-standing maritime community organization, house-boat architecture, and local fishing knowledge passed through generations.