Country Info
- Hanoi
- Capital
- Dong (VND)
- Currency
- 79,939,014
- Population
- VN
- Country Code
Cat Ba Slideshow
Cat Ba
Travel Blogs from Cat Ba, Vietnam
Cat Ba Island
... set at 7.30, so we got up at 7 for a morning splash in warm water. We had our breakfast as the boat headed to Cat Ba Island. A minibus picked us up, and the sights were truly amazing. Everybody has seen the beautiful pictures of Ha Long Bay... well in ...
Motorbiking on Cat Ba Island
... although the weather wasn’t on our side, Halong Bay and Cat Ba island still remained one of the highlights of the trip. After a gorgeous meal on Cat Ba, it was time to say goodbye to Northern Vietnam and get re-packed ready for our next stop - ...
Adventures, adventures, adventures
... do on a boat floating out in the bay, so we ended up playing cards most of the night. The next day I got dropped off on Cat Ba island, the biggest island in the bay. We went on a pretty good little hike up to the top of Cat Ba ...
Kayaking in Cat Ba
... to travel anywhere without a tour?!? Public bus to a city called Haiphong was no problem. After more stern negotiations to get a boat to Cat Ba island - you are a tourist you pay triple...if you don't like, go back to Hanoi - was what the lady said to ...
Halong Bay Junk Boat Trip
... to was 3 days and 2 nights around Halong Bay. 1 night spent aboard a beautiful old-style junk boat, the other in a hotel on Cat Ba Island. All our food and activities such as Kayaking, trekking etc were inlcuded, all we had to pay for was drinks. So at ...
Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe
... means "I don't speak Hebrew". Unfortunately, our time with them was brief. The boat docked and we had to deboard onto Cat Ba Island. We were put up in a very nice hotel overlooking yet another harbor. Dinner was quite good, but they charged ...
Chargrilled
... so-called "Chief of of Security for Foreigners" and herded onto motorbike taxis to the docks, as the hydrofoils for our destination of Cat Ba island were leaving very shortly. Going from a misty mountain view to hot sandy beaches in one jump - Cat Ba ...
Vietnam Update 2
Hi Guys, We left Hanoi and arrived in Cat Ba Island on a public boat. The island's a kind of vietnamese island resort - say Blackpool (as cold as anyway!). Not a great deal to here, except relax...weird, as we've always been on the go. We went to ...
Junks and Kayaks
... group and hopped onto another junk which had pulled up alongside to collect us. From here we sailed for a couple of hours heading to Cat Ba island where we were to stay that night. Dumped our kit in a lovely room on the 7th floor and overlooking the bay. ...
Interesting trekking!!
Today, we were heading off to Cat Ba Island in Ha Long Bay - The weather was quite foggy but it made it looked quite mystical which was quite nice. The group split in half as some people had only booked a 2-day tour. On the island, we went trekking and ...
ferry scam, fresh seafood, and morning music
... nbsp;tarnished by the floating plastic bags, garbage, and nasty oil slicks floating everywhere in the water. Our biggest surprise in Cat Ba was that we accidentally timed our visit with the annual celebratory bash in honor of their beloved Uncle ...
Out At Sea
... the Canadians at the usual spot, not sure when our next decent meal would be, and decided to sod the National Park we had planned on visiting and leave Cat Ba. It had such a strange and unfriendly vibe, and we just wanted to get out of there and move ...
Cat Ba Island
... the magnificent Thien Cung caves, which are lit up in a variety of colors in an almost psychedelic effect. We spent the night on Cat Ba Island, half of which is a protected national park, and which is one of only two inhabited islands in Halong Bay. On ...
Amazing Limestones
... von "Limestones" ragen aus dem Wasser, mit dem Boot kann man durch das Labyrint cruizen. Die groesste Insel "Cat Ba" sieht aus wie "Jurassic Parc" ein Junglepfad fuehrt durch die faszinierende Landschaft. Tyranosaurus Rex kam mir jedoch nicht vor ...
Cat Ba Island
Cat Ba Island is located right next to Ha Long Bay and contains the exact same scenery. There were 11 of us on our boat, but only 4 of us were going for 3 days/2 nights. So we got on a different boat and went our separate ways. There ...
Epics and Conflicts
... we were asked for wasn't going to be used as reward money but really going to go into the pockets of the fine officers of Cat Ba for their hard work that morning. Ah well. You really can't argue in a police station when you are surrounded by people who ...
Ha Long Bay (although I found it rather short)
... into the ocean. (I'm not going to lie, I was scared, but at least I did it!) Next they took us to the remote little town of Cat Ba, showed us our amazing hotel rooms, and set us loose for the night. Well, not that loose, considering we had to be up at 7 ...
Down by the Bay
... It essentially is a limestone island surrounded by hundreds of limestone outcroppings sticking straight out of the water. The island, called Cat Ba Island, is large enough to support a town as well as several hundred permanent residents. The center of ...
Halong Bay
... (though I never did figure out exactly where we were). After breakfast, I transferred to another boat which was headed to Cat Ba Island (since mine was returning directly to Halong City). My new boat traveled through the pretty karst scenery once ...
Cat Ba
... . We managed to get 3 guys to take us on their motorbike for 100.000 Dong (5$) each which in itself was an adventurous journey :) In Cat Ba city we checked into the Hoang Cang Hotel (6$) for the big single room with TV, hot shower and a balkony with a ...
Cat Ba Island
Our next destination was the largest island among the 3000 scattered in Halong Bay called Cat Ba Island. Our boat docked at about 9:00 in the morning and we transferred to our hotel in Cat Ba Town. As we drove from the dock to the town, we saw why the ...
The prawn
Well, this was defiantly the sickest I've ever been in my life. I didn't consume as much alcohol as usual but I did not stop being violently sick until 7 at night. This was easily the worst valentines day in history as em spent the day cycling, see ...
Cat Ba Island and Our Longest Bus Journey Yet
... it. Me and Helen were even brave enough to swim in the artic-esqe water temperatures. In the evening they switched on the Cat Ba eqivilent of the Blackpool Illuminations - the entire waterfront was lit up with flashing lights. It was sooo tacky! Next ...
CatBa et la Baie d'Halong
Top 5 Cat Ba et la Baie d'Halong 1- Village flottant... un vrai! 2- Boardwalk de plusieurs kilometres accroche a la fallaise au dessus de l eau et qui relie les 3 plages. 3- Faire du kayak dans la baie d'Halong ...
Can't Trust The Weather
Our stay in Cat Ba Island did not work out as planned due to the storm. The three off us awoke to a huge hangover but managed to get up at 7:30am to find out the tour was going back to Hanoi. We had our egg roll for breakfast then went back to bed. ...
Party at the Green Mango
The Green Mango, which rumour has it is the best restraunt on Cat Ba Island, was having a second birthday bash so a pose of Hanoians took the mission down there to celebrate. It was a really good escape, particularly since I hadnt left Hanoi since the ...
Disasterous sailing
... .. I don't know why, but this didn't happen. A few of us were thrown off the ship with our bags and onto a bus on Cat Ba Island, unfortunately the bus couldn't hold all of us and our bags so the hour long mountainous road to the town centre was not much ...
Boating around Ha Long Bay
After a fair dose of mountain air we hoofed it down to Cat Ba Island and got a boat around Ha Long Bay for a couple of days. The boat mission was filled with mishap - the boat broke down, it got towed by a small woven boat till we were rescued by a second ...
Lazy days
... Cat Ba yesterday, but since the boat didn't leave until 3pm, we decided to spend the morning doing a half day trek in the Cat Ba National Park...wasn't too exciting, just treked through the forest to a view point and back down again! Caught ther ferry ...
