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- Hanoi
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- Dong (VND)
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Top Hotels in Halong Bay
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Morning Star Hotel Hanoi
46 reviews -
Riverside Hotel Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
147 reviews -
Sea and Sand Hotel Hoi An
40 reviews
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Hotel Chau Au Europa Dalat
28 reviews
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ATS Hotel Hanoi
28 reviews -
Nam Hai 1 Hotel Hanoi
41 reviews
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Lucky Eden Hotel Hanoi
10 reviews
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Hanoi Serenity Hotel
350 reviews -
Lac Vien Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
73 reviews
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Hanoi Phoenix Hotel
161 reviews
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Pastel Inn Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
7 reviews
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Hello Vietnam Hotel Hanoi
5 reviews
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Hoa Hong Hotel Hue
6 reviews
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Bamboo Green Harbourside Hotel Da Nang
6 reviews
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Golden Hotel Hanoi
66 reviews
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Hanoi Amazing hotel
133 reviews
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Thien Thanh Hotel Hoi An
435 reviews
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Bamboo Village Beach Resort & Spa Phan Thiet
68 reviews
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Hue Sports 1 Hotel
82 reviews
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Nhi Nhi Hotel Hoi An
316 reviews
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Thien Trung Hotel Hoi An
95 reviews -
La Dolce Vita Hotel Hanoi
60 reviews
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Golden Sun Legend Hanoi
320 reviews
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Dong Xanh Hotel Hoi An
226 reviews
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Sunny Hotel Hanoi
12 reviews
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Huong Sen Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
105 reviews
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Hanoi Cozy Hotel
58 reviews
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Hai Dang Hotel Hue
15 reviews
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Saigon Mini Hotel 7 Ho Chi Minh City
9 reviews
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Thanh Phat Hotel Hoi An
2 reviews
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Saigon Mini Hotel 5 Ho Chi Minh City
360 reviews
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Villa Hue
94 reviews
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Thanh Xuan (Long Life) Hotel Hoi An
343 reviews
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Hanoi Queen 2 Hotel
19 reviews
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Lucky Eden 2 Hotel Hanoi
2 reviews
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Hue Holiday Hotel
634 reviews
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Bodega Hotel Hanoi
84 reviews
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Hanoi Centre 1 Hotel
12 reviews
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Crystal Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
18 reviews
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Hong Ngoc 3 Hotel Hanoi
38 reviews
Halong Bay
Travel Blogs from Halong Bay, Vietnam
Exercise classes in Hanoi & Cruising in Halong Bay
... toast, cereal, nothing...basically just noodle soup, which is actually very good.) Now that we were revitalized, we drove 3 hours to Halong Bay for a 2-day boat trip. Our guide, Ha, found out that he was going to be accompanying us on the ...
Howling Bay
... be selected as one of the 7 wonders of nature. Currently, it is one of 28 finalist competing for this honor; Halong Bay is already a UNESCO World Heritage site. Combine this celebration with the Reunification Day holiday equates to A LOT ...
Boat Trip
... very early by a very short Vietnamese woman for our trip to Halong Bay. It began to rain and was vet listy when we got to Halong Bay which worried us. The boat was very nice considering it was a normal boat and not a VIP one. Once we got ...
Halong bay
... , stinking fish is not all that amazing. The water wasn't really that clean either - think tourism may be having its affect on halong bay but the vietnamese don't really seem to mind!!!! Dropped in on monkey island for a swim having been told ...
Sailboat!
... some sleep. went out for food and drinks but nothing crazy. the next morning we woke upabout 730 to get on the bus to Halong Bay. its was cramped and about 4 hours long. but well worth it when we got there to see our junk was one ...
Cruising Halong Bay
... some antibiotics with which Nathan is now finally beating his gastro flu. We also booked tickets for a cruise of Halong Bay, one of Vietnam's primary attractions. We were picked up from our hotel the following morning. It was a three hour drive in the ...
Cruisin' in Halong Bay
We just got back from a 3day/2night on a Chinese Dragon junk boat cruise in Halong Bay, on the East coast of Vietnam.. Halong Bay is far and away the most scenic area of Vietnam and is a UNESCO world heritage site.. There are 3000 uninhabitted limestone ...
Cruisin' in Halong Bay
One of the 'must do' things when in Hanoi is to do a cruise on a ‘traditional junk’ in Halong Bay. There are two type of trips normally promoted: 2 days/1 night, or 3 days/2 nights when an option to spend 1 night at a resort on ...
Cruisin' on the JUNK...
... bay. I typed this last night to post but lost it AGAIN. Gotta love these slow connections! Anyway, we left for Halong Bay Wednesday morning and enjoyed the 3 hr trip with some British girls. They have been all over for the last several ...
Halong..
... boat leaves the harbor for the bay itself. The harbor itself is rammed full of tourist boats, no surprise really as everyone who comes to Vietnam comes here. We jump on our boat- along with 6 other 'shipmates' - and are served lunch as we leave the bay. ...
A night under the stars
... to haggle my way onto a junk for a night to cruise around the bay and see the sights. What can I tell you about Halong Bay without boring you? Well, basically its a collection of around 3000 little islands rising out the turquoise sea, it's been ...
Halong Bay
Halong Bay is beautiful and surreal. It looks like somehow thousands of mountains with sparse bits of lush green vegetation were dropped into the bay. Its impossible to describe. A must-do in Northern Vietnam is to cruise Halong ...
Saa er der fest i bugten
... det smukke Ha Long Bay. Det er ret ligetil; en faerdigarrangeret tur med baad rundt i bugten i et par dage. Ha Long Bay er allermest kendt for sine limstensklipper, der skulpturelt stikker op over vandets overflade, og skaber et smukt sceneri i den store ...
Ha Long Bay Cruise on a Chinese Junk
... San Francisco, and a guy from India. We met our crew and learned about our itinerary and then began sailing out into the bay. The boat was absolutely beautiful with sun beds to relax and sunbathe on on the top deck, outside and inside eating areas below ...
Halong Bay
... Bay is made up of over 2,000 islands that jut out of the ocean just off the Vietnamese Cost. The Vietnamese believe that Halong Bay was created when a dragon swooped down and dragged its tail along the land. It is such a mystical place and seeing the ...
Halong Bay
Bus to Halong Bay picked us up about 8.30am. Amongst others we had Maria (CAD - 24), Kitty & Jorku?(FIN - 24ish). Yet again it looks like we have a great bunch of people. When we got to the dock there was the customry seen of chaos. ...
Hanging in Halong
... find this hard to believe, but I swear its true! We collected some more people then set off on the 3hr journey to Halong Bay, Vietnam's most well known tourist sight. Basically it's a set of 200 karst islands set off the North-East coast. Its very ...
Ha Long Way from Home
... nbsp; Our trip to Halong Bay was short but, considering the weather, was a perfect amount of time spent there. After Halong Bay we are off to Hue, Vietnam which is a city in central Vietnam, along the coast. We heard the weather is warm and sunny ...
A Sea of Junk
The most fantastic natural site in the Nam, undoubtedly is Halong Bay. Aproximately 3000 dolomite karsts scattered in close proximity throughout this area of the Tonkin gulf, South China Sea. The most efficient way to visit this place is by tour from ...
Overnight Boat on Halong Bay
... Vietnam food. After lunch we visited some caves and walked up 30 steps to get to the top where there was great veiws of halong bay! Then we went kayakking through some caves and considering I dont do ocean water, I was pretty proud that I was able to ...
three days in a junk
We've spent the past 2 nights and 3 days sailing around Halong Bay and Cat Ba island in Northern Vietnam, on an old junk boat. Day 1 - Halong Bay Tuesday morning we set off on the 3 and a half hour bus ride to Halong City port. There we boarded a little ...
Vietnam Continued...
... places you could go kayakking or sailing - the rest of the time was for resting or visiting the bars. The return journey across Halong Bay on the Sunday morning was much shorter - the weather was still very cloudy and windy. In fact, it was the first ...
The Bay of Islands, Vietnam Style...
So, after just over 24 hours in Hanoi we were off to Halong Bay. There are hundreds of tours on offer at all kinds of prices. We went with the one our hostel offered us, which was more pricey than most but sounded well worth it, and lets face it at $60 ...
Boat trip through the islands
We booked a 2 night 3 day tour up to Halong Bay and Cat Ba Island for 60 bucks each! Bargain! We met up with our group and borded the minus bus to take us to Halong Bay. No one was talking much until we picked up 2 other girls. Crazy New York girls, ...
Paradise
What a beautiful part of the world this is. One of the nicest I've been to. We chugged slowly passed towering mountains of all shapes and sizes dissappearing into the still deep water, reflections, mistiness which added to the beauty and created layers ...
Heaven at Ha-Long Bay!
... with its beautiful scenery and being so peaceful, you could just drift around the bay forever. But, time for us to move on and time to experience the Vietnam rail service for the first time. So, time for the overnight train to Hue, please be ...
Relax relax
Escale obligee lorsqu'on visite le nord du Vietnam : la baie d'Halong et ses milliers de petites iles plongees dans la brume. Cette fois on a decide de prendre un tour de 3 jours 2 nuits depuis Hanoi et de se laisser guider. On n'a pas ete decus. Les ...
Overnight in the "Junk"
3.5 bus journey to the coast. We climbed onboard our accomodation for the night, a 'junk'. This was a very large boat with bedrooms on the bottom, a dining room in the middle and loungers on the top. Due to the size, the boat didn't sway and was very ...
Halong Bay
... bottle or two of rice vodka around here isn't too bad. You can buy alcohol from the floating kwik-e-marts (aka old ladies about the bay in boats who won't budge on their nflated price) but it's much better value to get it before you leave Hanoi. Expect to ...