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Cat Ba Slideshow
Cat Ba
Travel Blogs from Cat Ba, Vietnam
Baie d Halong
Lors de ma visite du nord et avec les rencontres que j y ai faites je me suis finalement laisse tante par acheter un tour dans une agence pour visiter la Baie d Halong, Cest pas tres cher, tout est compris et cest difficile de faire autrement. Des le ...
Bay of Plenty!
The previous day we had started talking to four Australians who had been on Cat Ba Island for about a week, who told us about the tours they had been doing through the guest house and how good they had been. So with Joe, an American we had met on the boat ...
Cat Ba Island: home of the Koala Bar.
... chaos I forgot the shirt I stole from Tim that I had left out to dry.) I was very upset. The smaller boat took us to Cat Ba Island, which is a beautiful island covered in lush green rice paddies, and little mud huts. We all got onto bikes, which we rode ...
A Day of Rest...
... . Of course the flip side of that is tomorrow we are here in the morning and then we head back to Hanoi for our last night in Vietnam. We have a half day tour of Hanoi, a few free hours and then we head to the airport. We've seen a lot of the country and ...
Beach Relaxation
... out to have lunch. At lunch, we thought we might like to walk to Cat Co Beach 2 which is roughly a 20 min walk from Cat Ba Town. After my motorbike escapades the day before, I convinced Kythera that we could take a motorbike each (with a child each) ...
Cat Ba Island
... the cities. We're doing nothing for a change, as there is little to do here but relax. We've had a couple of days on Cat Co 2 beach and have also been on a boat trip around Halong Bay where we explored caves and went swimming in the turqoise-marine sea. ...
Aufbruchsstimmung in Cat Ba
Hallo zusammen! Werden nach 7 Tagen Aufenthalt morgen Cat Ba verlassen, es gibt hier leider nicht so viel zum klettern, das meiste ist nur mit dem Boot erreichbar. Adele hat mitlerweile eine Zehenverletzung, somit musste sie die letzten 2 Tage ...
Cat Ba National Park
... a magnificent sunny day. We sat on the bay and ate breakfast while we concocted our plans for our time in North Vietnam. With such a calm and summer feel to Cat Ba Island we decided to stay an extra day here and try and see more of the amazing sights of ...
Sehr schoene Insel
Cat Ba ist eine sehr schoene Insel, die eine unglaubliche Landschaft hat, viele billige Uebernachtungsoeglichkeiten und sehr viele krasse Asiaten, die dort Uralub machen. Hauptsache laut, wie die Italiener ;-). Aber die meisten sehr nett, auch wie die ...
House arrest
... , Boot und Bus und ich hab so gut wie nix von der Landschaft mitbekommen. Hab eigentlich nur gefroren und geschlafen. In Cat Ba angekommen, haben wir uns sogar von einem Hotelier bequatschen lassen, was ich normalerweise nicht so schnell mach. Ich schau ...
Un tuffo in mare
... per la notte in un posto magnifico, anche se esageratamente affollatto di barche. Il giorno dopo siamo andati sull'isola di Cat Ba, decisamente turistica, per fare una camminata nell'omonimo parco nazionale e per una visita dei dintorni: inutile dire che ...
Cat Ba Island in Ha Long Bay
... rocks to the top of the little hill. There was a wonderful view of the beach and the surrounding islands. Back on the boat, and to Cat Ba island. little rest, dinner and then we headed for a bar on the coast where we had a few beers for 50c each. Overall ...
Halong Bay - Cat Ba
... the beautiful scenery as you can see by the photos. We went on a 3 day tour that covered touring the islands, staying on cat ba island, visiting caves and the national park. Our trip to the national park was crazy. We went cycling around ...
Rock the Cat Ba
... the next beach where we happily bobbed up and down in the waves answering the normal questions - yes, I'm married, I have 6 children, I'm a doctor. Cat Ba town is not a big place and it was inevitable that we'd bump into the group from the hostel at some ...
Cat Ba Island
Have a very poor connection so I will update tonight when we get back to Ha Noi Lif is good and all is well .....Vietnam is an awsome place to see and ...
No sign of Colonel Kurtz
... claim that US POWs had it better than most Vietnamese citizens. Then I made a two day detour to Cat Ba island, which was the highlight of Vietnam for me. I think it's fairly crowded with Vietnamese during the summer, but I would guess there were ...
Journey to Halong Bay
... tell them where to stick it and just swim there ourselves, we had to acquiesce. Two and half hours later, we finally arrived at Cat Ba Island. We had been traveling for about 20 hours and I was very ready to throw my packs down, get out of ...
Mooo!!
... perhaps the most wonderful sight in Vietnam, and certainly the most popular with tourists. The only feasible way of seeing the Bay and checking out Cat Ba Island was to get on a tour, leave it for a day or two, and then meet up with the next group to ...
Jurasic Park is in Halong Bay?
... ;oversee the sustainable development of rural regions while also attempting to protect its many natural treasures like Halong Bay and Cat Ba. Kayaking in Halong Bay will just have to wait until next time. Additional details about our ...
Cat Ba Island: A tourist mecca.
Next the boat carrying John and Anita drops them off on Cat Ba Island (in Halong Bay), to do some trekking and kayaking. Will Anita and John survive their humid trek? Will they get lost in a kayak amongst the karsts? Will they escape the ...
Cat Ba - Mohawks, Motorbikes and Hotel Madness
... three tickets on the 45 min Hydrofoil (ripped off again, we should've got two ... we had three seats anyway!) and finally arrived in Cat Ba. This place is really, really strange. The only way I can describe it is a place that used to be beautiful has been ...
Magical Mystery non-tour, Halong Bay
... to Ninh Binh via the rusty Hydrofoil and bus, it will serve as a base for further exploration of northern Vietnam. We've loved our time here on Cat Ba though, and can't recommend it highly enough - especially independently!!! PS if you get the ...
Cat Ba Island, Vietnam
We got the Hoang Long bus from Hanoi to Haiphong and then a boat to Cat Ba island on Friday morning. Met an English guy called David on the bus who is living in China and teaching English. He just came to Vietnam for a holiday for a few days. We arrived ...
La croisiere s amuse!
2 jours sur un bateau de luxe (le plus grand et le plus luxueux de TOUTE la baie d Halong), avec nos 3 amis Annie, Babas et Sebatien (du Nepal). La nourriture, des repas de 5 services, etaient essentiellement des fruits de mer et du poisson fraichement ...
Cat Ba Island
... about 30mins boat ride from the Junk. Luckily our guide was coming with us so we felt rather special being on our own private tour. Cat Ba Island was reministant of the Island of LOST and as we winded up the hills through the jungle I wondered if "The ...
Vietnam: Cat Ba Island - Isolated Breakdown
Waking to a much clearer morning we were able to see all the islands making it a beautiful cruise through the islands. Arriving at Cat Ba jetty we were told "you go there". Saying goodbye to the Irish girls we joined our third tour group in two ...
Still going strong in Halong
... . A three level affair completely hidden from the air and we were told it was used all the time as the Americans had bombed Cat Ba many times - not surprising given that the VC used the island as a base to defend Hanoi's port, Haiphong. Generally we have ...
Same Same... but Different
... the culture and people made me notice a lot more about this country, good and bad and as a result, I probably know more about Vietnam than Cambodia. The people aren't very spiritual as in other parts of south east Asia and they have no respect for ...