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Cat Ba Slideshow
Cat Ba
Travel Blogs from Cat Ba, Vietnam
Day 64: Chance reunion with Audrey
... . It’s no wonder only 12 people are allowed up in one go. The views from the tower thought are spectacular and worth seeing. --Cat Ba Town-- After our stroll in the National Park, we headed in a minivan to our overnight hotel on the island. We were ...
Cat Ba und Halong Bay
Cat Ba Island ist ein Nationalpark und liegt mitten in der Halong Bucht. Gestern haben wir uns ein Toeffli gemietet und sind quer durch die Insel gefahren. Die Landschaft ist traumhaft und macht Lust auf mehr... Deshalb haben wir uns fuer heute ein ...
Where the Dragon Descends Into the Sea
... older (50s) Spanish tourists who were nice enough, but not really who we were hoping to spend our time with. They jumped ship on Cat Ba Island for the night and a group of 9 younger travelers boarded just when the drinking was starting. We had a great ...
Cat Ba and Monkey Island
Not much going on here really. Island is spectacular and fairly peaceful but wasted on us really as we were stil knackered from trip from Bangkok and not fitting comfotably into our travelling shoes quite yet. Spent thirteen hours in bed first night, ...
Divide and conquer
... and walking to our destination if possible. In this case we hadn't decided whether or not to stay in the city or go straight to Cat Ba island. Outside the station a woman in jeans, a t-shirt and a lot of makeup came up to us and asked if we ...
Halong Bay
... Cat Ba was really relaxing and was great just to have a few days to ourselves after moving so quickly through Vietnam. Halong Bay and Cat Ba island are extremely beautiful places and we were really glad we went independently as we had so much more ...
Cat Ba Island and Halong Bay
... Halong Bay, visit a few caves in the area, head back down to Lan Ha Bay, kayak for an hour and then slowly return to Cat Ba. Once again, it wasn't a very pleasant day and the fog and gray clouds obscured everything in the distance. Curt spent most of ...
Splendide, Majestueux, Et Saoul Comme Une Botte!!!
I got to sleep late the night of the first day. Jon found Leminy Snicket's A Serious of Unfortunate Events on HBO and was giddy as a schoolgirl to be watching a movie in English. It left me buried under covers, squeezing my eyes shut in vain until almost ...
Halong Bay
... a bit of a rubbish day and defnintely wasn't worth the 15 pounds we paid for it. The next day we walked around Cat Ba - it takes about 10 minutes and it's very unimpressive. The actual island is stunning but I still wasn't feeling well ...
Camping it Up In Cat Ba
... round to, and really the only way to exercise the brain a bit and make sure it does not go too soft over the next year. Cat Ba is a little town that thrives off the tourism attracted by Halong Bay, and is a rather strange little place. The town is on ...
Cat Ba Island
... ; She didn't speak much English but she was very fond of the word 'monkey', so she happily showed me where the monkeys live (Cat Ba has a very endangered population of langurs), although we weren't fortunate enough to see any. When we got to the top ...
Island Hopping
... and others with luxurious boat pictures. Fortunately we resisted and kept with our original plan to book just transport to Cat Ba island, the largest island in Halong Bay. This brings to one's mind a small remote undeveloped ...
Back from Halong Bay
We are back from our 3 day 2 night trip from Halong Bay which I thing every tourist has passed here in Vietnam. Beautiful scenery. We were lucky to have great company and in our tour. Actually, I have to admit that after travelling for 2 years it was nice ...
Ha Long Bay - Forgotten blog entry
... tour to the area. The first night was spent on a boat out on the bay between the islands and the second was spent in a hotel in Cat Ba City on Cat Ba Island, which is the only inhabited island in the bay. Anyway, this place is absolutely amazing! I ...
were you born on the sun?
Vietnam is so damn hot. Nothing like Florida EVER. I am sweating just thinking about it. We went to Cat Ba Island, beach town, to get away from the stiffling city life and catch the beach. As soon as we get there, the 'power box' as they said, blew up ...
Day 31 - L'ile aux singes / Monkey island
... beach of monkey island where I almost got bitten by a monkey, fair enough I was too close and he was protecting his familly! Then Cat Ba island, way bigger where we climbed up the National Park's peak for awesome view + a FTF in Geocaching (some will know ...
Intro to Halong Bay and Cat Ba Island
... . They appeared as if they could be the ridges of his back cresting through the surface of the water. Cat Ba Island makes for a nice get-a-way from which to enjoy the great sea views. Half of the island has been ...
Cruising the South China Sea in a pirate boat
... amused as it was still pitch black.. so then with little sleep and a little worse for wear we were bundled off the boat onto Cat Ba island were we were taken to the National Park to trek up a mountain!! and i was wearing flip flops... So we headed ...
Cat Ba Island
... was very cheap (rather than getting the tour hook up like most do, which is astronomical). For 160,000 dong, we were there. Cat Ba is a small fishing island that attracts both Vietnamese and foreign tourists. Most people come to tour Halong Bay, which is ...
A perfect Vietnamese send off
Xin Chau, Am just back in Hanoi after 4 nights on Cat Ba island near Halong Bay. Having arrived in Hanoi last Friday morning after the nightbus from Sapa I jumped straight on the first bus to Halong City arriving there 4 hours later. After eventually ...
Good morning Vietnam!
... by her.) Another friend from the US (Audrey) also flew in for our trip. Together, we all travelled to Cat Ba island where we spent approximately two weeks climbing, eating, drinking, swimming, kayaking, riding scooters, having massages and ...
Cruising in Halong Bay
... Monkey Island, we were able to kayak for an hour and then tour the island for the remaining half-hour before returning back to Cat Ba island. The rest of the evening, after another seafood meal provided for in the tour, we were on our own. ...
Touring Halong Bay
... keep the floor filled enough without us. The next day we were taken to a remote dock on the undeveloped side of Cat Ba island. We were given a pair of rickety bicycles and pedaled our way through the hills (and through another natural tunnel) to ...
A Three-Hour Tour...
... and that I am along simply for the leftover Halloween candy I pulled out of my bag upon arrival in Hanoi. Our journey to Cat Ba island was an arduous one, especially with poor Milly suffering from plague on the way. The route (rhymes with stout) ...
Trajet pour Cat Ba island, la loose integrale.
... plus la poire sur notre dos) et on se fait carrement virer de l'embarcadere. Plan B : le lonely indique un deuxieme embarcadere pour Cat Ba qui s'appelle Dinh Vu. On part a la recherche d'un moyen de transport pour s'y rendre et la, O surprise, l'equipe ...
Halong Bay
... relativement brumeux hier et aujourd'hui, mais pour les interesses, on a en probablement 300 a la gang. Aujourd'hui nous sommes arrives a l'ile de Cat Ba, la plus grosse ile de la baie. On a fait un peu de Trekking dans les montagnes de l'ile ou on a eu ...
Cat Ba National Park
... in die Stadt. Cat Ba ist die groesste Insen inmitten von tausenden in der Halongbucht verteilten Eilanden. Auch wenn sich Cat Ba als Adventure Zentrum Vietnams mausert geht es hier fuer vietnamesische Verhaeltnisse noch etwas ruhiger zu. Es gibt so eine ...