Sunlight Hotel Halong Bay

... In one as you looked up the really steep cliffs you could see monkeys playin around, and Deer we think. A wide variety of people on the boat all pleasant but all in pairs no big problem but..<br>Tomorrow Jill my friend from KL and Hillside arrives and we will be taking trains down the coast. It will be good to have a companion.

... of trips are organised from (as we learnt), we borded the boat and headed into the bay. our first stop on the boat after lunch (which was incredible), was quite possibly the biggest cave I have ever seen which was quite impressive. It had been lit with various colours of strip lights giving the place an underground rave kind of feeling to it, with stalagmites (or the other kind) that either looked like alien or those robot tentical ...

... by a few new faces. <br><br>We made the right decision to spend two nights on the boat, total black out on Cat Ba island. I don't think those who went aboard were too happy about it and the accomodation was ment to be a bit rough. <br><br>The sight's are great, the service a bit laxed and you pay for what you get. However would recommend a visit. <br><br>Back to hanoi, for a couple of days before the next overnght train trip down south.<br><br> <br>

... is ODC Travel, I booked online 3 weeks before departure. 8:00 am they pick us up at Star view hotel with this car, the man in the car is Dung, our driver. He drives us through a highway, then stop at a restaurant in Hai Duong city for a short break.<br><br>Arrival at the harbor, we were transferred to a big junk by this mall ...

... in the hostel myself, Miriam and Nathan headed out to Halong Bay despite the imminent storm warnings as they wouldn&#8217;t have had the chance to see it otherwise due their looming departure date. It was so beautiful. The weather admittedly wasn&#8217;t the very best it could have been hence the limited photos but it was worth it. We only got caught in one torrential downpour - went kayaking anyway as we were already wet and had immense fun jumping off the very top of the boat. Don ...

... each and a segment of orange. Again the staff had loads of local food and a big bottle of vodka for breakfast. Hopefully this day was going to be more successful than the previous. <br><br>Disappointed to find out we were not allowed to go swimming as it is forbidden due to the previous incident of people drowning in the typhoon. We soon relaised this was a lie as we saw other people jumping off the boat, we just had a tour who didn't care. <br><br>We soon arrived at Cat Ba island ...

... went to a remote beach for lunch and then headed to the main town on the island. Went out that night and tried rice wine which is super potent and enjoyed happy hours at a bar with the others from our group...great night out, hard getting early the next day though!<br><br>Back on the boat to head to the Halong City to get the bus to Hanoi

... br><br>We had booked for 1 night and 1 day. Some booked for an extra day, but that would mean that they had to sleep on Cat-Ba island for 1 night. We just wanted the boat and some relaxing Along......eeuuh..Halong!! Everybody got his room appointed and it was all there. Except for the airco..this was $10 extra. But we had 2 good fans and a private bathroom. No we were happy! No hasle..this is what we wanted. All good enough for us. We introduced ourselves and had 2 other guys ...

... que le pays a encore beaucoup a faire cote protection de l environnement (et nous n'avons pas fini de voir la pollution en Asie) mais, ca gachait le portrait. <br><br>Pendant notre sejour nous avons change de bateaux a quelques reprises du a une etrange organisation de l'entreprise. Nous avons passe la 2e journee avec 3 touristes europeens qui eux ont du changer de bateau a la fin de la journee pour le souper et la nuit. Lorsque nous les ...

... voyage" nous a repris, au fur et a mesure de nos decouvertes ici.<br><br>Alors nous voila de retour pour ecrire quelques articles sur le Vietnam, partager nos impressions et mettre un mot sur les sensations que nous eprouvons !<br><br>Bienvenue !