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Cat Ba Slideshow
Cat Ba
Travel Blogs from Cat Ba, Vietnam
Crying Over Devil Spawns
... ginormous backpacks on. Okay. Made it to the bus station. Now the easy part. Buy two tickets for Hanoi-Haiphong-Cat Ba. Bus-boat-bus. Easy. Right? Not. Immediately when we step off the bikes five ladies want ...
There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
We left the hotel room in Hanoi for the first time in thirty six hours to start our bus, boat, bus relay to Cat Ba Island. We were fully rested and fed thanks to all the supplies Amy smuggled out of the buffet breakfast, which kept us from being hungry ...
Ha Long Bay and Cat Ba Island
... have been in the mood. It was still nice though with the full moon rising from behind the islands. The next day we set off for Cat Ba island, a resort island and the biggest one in the bay (they say its a bay but its not really - its just about freaky ...
Slowest computers in the world
... in our room, its the last time we stay in an expensive joint!!! The next day we were up and on the twenty past 8 ferry to Cat ba. We arrived after about an hour and a half journey and as usual tackled our way through the mad crowd of restaurant and hotel ...
Halong Bay.... 1900+ limstone Islands...
... , pretty cool but the tour was crap so i didnt learnt much. We had a brief stop for kayaking and swimming before heading to Cat ba Island the most populated island with hotels and bars. I opted to stay overnight in the very nice boat with a huge room ...
Halong Bay
... , with a bit of lunch, but ended up trekking in the morning, and a bit of kayaking in the afternoon, an overnight stay on Cat Ba Island, then back on the third day. The cave was amazing, and Halong Bay is truly beautiful. We were really really lucky and ...
Cruising the beautiful Halong Bay
... I'm a tad behind with my blog so will endeavour to cover off our last few stop-overs in one fell swoop. We've now been in Vietnam for around week, and so far are really liking it here. Once again, quite a culture shock after Laos - busier, noisier, hugely ...
Living the High Life
... ;as the four of us had a mini bus all to ourselves. We were dropped off at a 'pier' to catch a hydrofoil boat to Cat Ba Island (there was some doubt about our destination when we turned off the main road and drove for quite a while along a dirt ...
Mopeds, pool, hikes and locals
... on the junk would just sit in complete silence, dumbstruck by the natural beauty of the whole area. We negotiated a lift into Cat Ba town with the tour-guide who very unreliably informed us that there would be no other means of transport from the ...
Halong Bay
... don't tell you that during this free time there really isn't much around to do and you don't have access to get anywhere. Cat Ba has a large national park, but it's about 18 km from Cat Ba town, requiring about an hour to get there by ...
Freezing but fantastic trip to Ha Long Bay
... like penguins. We also had time to kayak among the oyster farms and fishing villages, and roam through the jungle on Cat Ba Island (the largest). There are a lot of floating villages, which are fascinating to me. The first night we ...
Ile de Cat ba
Lors de notre traversée en direction de Cat ba, nous voguons à nouveau dans la baie d'Ha long, à la différence majeure que sur cette « route » la baie s'offre pleinement à nous car nous ne croisons pour ainsi dire que quelques pêcheurs ...
Tacky Town, snakes and Billy Goats
Hello again everyoneeee! It's your lobster looking friend Michelle here again (Sorry Ashley! Your wish for me not to get sunburned and be a little lobster running around didn't come true!). Pam and I have had, uhhh well we've had.... and experience here ...
A taxi, 3 buses and a boat to Cat Ba
... getting excited about our trip and drinking a bottle of Vietnamese red wine mad in Dalat – though it was like paint stripper it took the chill of as n the hotel room (and Cat Ba) was freezing. Fingers crossed the boat has central ...
2000 games of Farmer's Rummy and counting...
Hey there ho there neighbours! I just arrived here at Cat Ba Island amongst the 300 or more other islands in HaLong bay! We've spent pretty much the entire past 24 hours travling here, by three buses, a train, and a long boat ride. We ended up getting a ...
Cat Ba Island - our Ha long Bay (MW)
... huge fishing communities of boats all tied together. Everything from floating supermarkets to net repair sites - it’s an amazing place. In the end we were really glad we chose Cat Ba over the more tourist orientated Ha Long Bay. ...
Dont believe i managed to write a blog Cat Ba
... here in Vietnam in the rain looking back on the sunshine of this trip, only a week ago. I am amazed given this search engine Cat Ba even exists, and that the guesthouse lap top im working on hasnt ended up being smashed on the floor. So at last Cat Ba ...
Jurassic Park? Not like we remember it!
... any 'karaoke' brothels in Jurassic Park. We arrived in a very ropey hotel for a very average dinner, before heading down to Cat Ba Town for some drinks. The town was nigh on deserted- must be off season, but the seediness of the town was ...
One night by the seaside...
... pretty aggresive towards man, sod that. Did see a few Long Tails though, but really just chilled on the beach. Once back at Cat Ba, we had got friendly with this French couple, a gay French couple, on a 2 week holiday, with there Thai ...
The magical waters of Halong Bay
We are coming to the end of a wonderful week spent on verdant Cat Ba island, situated in the emerald waters of Halong Bay and Lan Ha Bay. The whole area is a beautiful geological wonderland consisting of thousands of craggy limestone islands lined with ...
Cat Ba Island
Cat Ba. Fuld af hunde, frisk luft og soede mennesker. Her kan vi ligge paa stranden og gaa i regnskoven og her kan vi godt bruge masser af ...
Halong Bay
... on the ceiling to get into the hidden cove. When we got back the boat headed for monkey cove (with no monkeys) for a BBQ and more swimming. Afternoon was more kayaking and swimming. Then off to Cat Ba island to send the night before heading back to ...
Nov 17, 2009
Island life
... time to get the hell out of Hanoi cause it was just mental and we were ready for some slower pace stuff. We certainily got it in Cat Ba island as it was chilled out to the max. It was a bit of a hassle gettin there because we weren't gonna pay the savage ...
A quick update to say we're in vietnam and ...
... alive. We stayed in Hanoi for a couple of days and then moved on to one of the small islands off the east coast of Vietnam. They rip you off big style on the internet from this island so a bigger update when we get back to somewhere that doesnt charge ...
Cat Ba
... easiest journey I have had so far with no problems or questions asked , deffo recommend using this route to get to Halong/ Cat Ba over the tourist routes that book you with hundreds of other tourists. On the journey we met another Dutch couple Fred ...
Cat Ba
... a flight booked out of Hanoi on the 17th May. This only gives us three weeks to travel the whole length of Vietnam, from South to North. With Cat Ba Island, Sapa and Hanoi still to see in just 8 days it was time to get moving on from Hoi An, ...