Bien Dong Hotel Halong Bay

Olá!
Conhecemos a Baía de Halong. Baía onde se encontra cerca de 1960 illhas, das mais diversas formas e tamanhos, praticamente intocadas e desabitadas. Patrimonio Mundial da humanidade (UNESCO).
Várias histórias explicam a formação. Uma delas diz que diante da invasão chinesa, dragões foram enviados pelos deuses. Os dragões cuspiram p...

Our day began with a knock on our train door telling us we were about to pull into Hanoi station. Our sleeper carriage had again been pretty comfortable and now it was off on a 3 & ½ hour drive to Halong Bay. Well not straight away. We had organized our Vietnam section of our trip through a Vietnam based travel company Aurora Travel and they...

Bon alors ... depart de hanoi a 8am direction baie de Halong ... 3 hrs de route dans un minibus avec mes 2 nouveaux amis et 10 autres personnes ... la conduite ici est completement debile et j'adore :) disons que la voie de depassement est la voie a sens contraire. C'est comme etre a la ronde sur un manege sans fin, mais je dois admettre qu'apre...

Having had a good nights sleep, we met Nancy outside her hotel and headed for some breakfast. After breakfast we went for a long walk down on a pier where we noticed hundreds of crabs on the beach, who when they saw your shadow ran for cover under the sand. Having observed these creatures of the sea for some time, it was time for us to say our g...

Day 45 – Feb 18th

The only thing harder than getting out of bed this morning was trying to work out how we could put all our warm weather clothing together to make something suitable for cold weather. We hadn't been expecting cold until the Himalayas two months from now and had intended just buying cold weather gear then. Thankful...

We began our day at 4.30am getting off the train from Sapa and making our way back to our bags where Kelsey noticed she had lost the key to her bag lock (thanks mother for the lock with one key, haha :) ) so while we were in a rush to get ready we managed to saw it of with some help. Waiting out the front we started to stress about the horrible ...

Tirsdag morgen blev vi hentet kl. 8 på hotellet og kørt i bus 4 timer til Ha Long. Gruppen vi fulgtes med var mest unge rygsækrejsende, og den eneste familie ud over vores blev sendt med en anden båd, da vi ankom til Ha Long. Vi kom ombord i en lille båd, der skulle transportere os ud til den båd, vi skulle overnatte på. Båden lå for anker i ha...

After a long trip getting here, we quickly found ourselves on a tour of Halong Bay the first full day in Hanoi. We were concerned the weather would be poor later on in the week, and we decided to try our luck. The trip started out with the usual chaotic traffic of North Vietnam. There seems to be no rules beyond the bigger car wins. Our driver w...

I took a tour through Hanoi Backpackers to Halong Bay, staying overnight on a junk/boat. There were 25 of us on the tour and we boarded the min-bus for the 3.5 hour drive to the Bay. The majority of the tour was Australian (as was most of the hostel) with a few Americans and Brits and Me thrown in for good measure. When we arrived at Halong Bay ...

Ian and Ciara would like to tell you about... Ha Long Bay

So as you might have gathered we weren’t overly impressed with Hanoi so we jumped at a chance to ship out on a trip for a few days. Ha Long Bay is the biggest tourist site in northern Vietnam. What it is, is a bunch, 1690 to be exact, of limestone islands located just off ...