Day 161 (Fri 15 Dec) - Halong Bay
Up at 7am ready for our trip to Halong Bay.
Set off on a mini bus to Halong City up in the North East of Vietnam. The journey took about 3 and a half hours before we reached the incredibly busy harbour.
Our hearts sank a little as we saw the port literally teeming with tourists and the harbour was so full of boats you could barely see a square metre of water ( [1], [2] ). We were led to our two levelled boat, by our young guide To, and unpacked our bags in our very comfortable cabin.
There were about 10/12 of us on the boat, that could have easily catered for about 30 odd people.
Had an excellent lunch sitting with a retired couple from Munich, Michael and Ute. Also met Olivier from France. All very good company.
Post lunch everyone whizzed upstairs to sit on the upper deck on the loungers. As the boat chugged along we were all left a trifle breathless at the beauty of the Bay ( [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7] ).
We stopped off to climb through and up some caves reaching a point that afforded an excellent view of our surroundings.
We set off again to another set of 'caves'. When we mean caves, we really mean CAVES. These were absolutely enormous ( [1], [2] )! Quite breathtaking.
The boat moored up just beyond these caves were we sat on the upper deck, drinking wine and watching a beautiful sunset ( [1], [2] ). Had an excellent dinner with Michael, Ute and Joseph, a Californian lawyer, and rather alot of red wine!
Turned in quite early and slept very well indeed.
Set off on a mini bus to Halong City up in the North East of Vietnam. The journey took about 3 and a half hours before we reached the incredibly busy harbour.
Our hearts sank a little as we saw the port literally teeming with tourists and the harbour was so full of boats you could barely see a square metre of water ( [1], [2] ). We were led to our two levelled boat, by our young guide To, and unpacked our bags in our very comfortable cabin.
There were about 10/12 of us on the boat, that could have easily catered for about 30 odd people.
Had an excellent lunch sitting with a retired couple from Munich, Michael and Ute. Also met Olivier from France. All very good company.
Post lunch everyone whizzed upstairs to sit on the upper deck on the loungers. As the boat chugged along we were all left a trifle breathless at the beauty of the Bay ( [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7] ).
We stopped off to climb through and up some caves reaching a point that afforded an excellent view of our surroundings.
We set off again to another set of 'caves'. When we mean caves, we really mean CAVES. These were absolutely enormous ( [1], [2] )! Quite breathtaking.
The boat moored up just beyond these caves were we sat on the upper deck, drinking wine and watching a beautiful sunset ( [1], [2] ). Had an excellent dinner with Michael, Ute and Joseph, a Californian lawyer, and rather alot of red wine!
Turned in quite early and slept very well indeed.
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12/15/2006 05:12:00 am
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