Monday, June 7, 2010

June 6-7, Halong Bay, Vietnam

My English friends and I booked a two day trip to Halong Bay, one of Vietnam's most beautiful sites. After a 3.5 hour drive to Halong City we arrived at out boat; a huge ship for only 5 people on the trip!

The first day we sailed for a few hours, having an amazing lunch as we went through the thousands of island that are part of Halong Bay. Our first stop was at the Amazing Cave, one of the biggest I've ever seen. It took about an hour to walk through the entire thing. Following the cave, we had a swim in what was extremely refreshing water and then kayaking throughout part of the bay. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of the kayaking but we went through water caves and even to a remote lagoon where we watched monkeys playing in the trees. We then had sunset cruise and some more delicious food followed by karaoke, of course! I also slept outside on the deck until it started raining and was forced to go inside.

It continued raining the next day so our hike to the Ti Top mountain was nice but a bit wet (it also meant I didn't have my camera for the great views). The last couple hours were spent cruising and eating.

Halong Bay

Amazing cave

Floating village



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