I joined the group in front of the hostel Sunday morning and boarded a minibus for a 3-hour drive to the port in Halong Bay. We then boarded our boat and set off. Halong Bay is an area just along the coast of Vietnam full of limestone islands in various sizes. It is incredibly beautiful, but this beauty means that it is also packed full of touri...

We got the Hoang Long bus from Hanoi to Haiphong and then a boat to Cat Ba island on Friday morning. Met an English guy called David on the bus who is living in China and teaching English. He just came to Vietnam for a holiday for a few days. We arrived around 4 and booked into a hotel on the seafront. We were on the 5th floor which had great vi...

After a dodgy nights lack of sleep we were delited to find we were the only 2 leaving the boat to stay on Cat Ba Island for the second night, about 30mins boat ride from the Junk. Luckily our guide was coming with us so we felt rather special being on our own private tour. Cat Ba Island was reministant of the Island of LOST and as we winded up t...

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Waking to a much clearer morning we were able to see all the islands making it a beautiful cruise through the islands. Arriving at Cat Ba jetty we were told "you go there". Saying goodbye to the Irish girls we joined our third tour group in two days. Before going to the hotel we stopped off at one of the national parks for a 2 hour trek or bike ...

Beutiful Island. After spending the night on the boat we arrived on Cat Ba island. We biking through the island people, through their villages, It was fun. Finished biking, we went to our hotel at the island "Holiday View" for shower and lunch. After lunch we went to monkey island, which was waste of time. Only couple of monkeys lived there and ...

J'ai cru arriver a la Baule mais l'interieur de l'ile est super

A long days travel today, eventually catching 2 car ferries to Cat Ba island in Halong Bay. This island looks prehistoric, out of Jurasic Park. Big peaks of rain forest cover, stretching off into the interior. The Cat Ba township could have been a mediterrainian resort, surprisingly high rise hotels everywhere, and full of teenage school childre...

Me voici maintenant a bord d'un bateau en bois qui m'emene vers Cat Ba; l'occasion de traverser la baie en cette apres midi brumeuse mais ensoleillée. Tout a l'heure, mon hote a déconcerté mon estomac en me proposant de partager son repas avec ses copines, a coup d'oreilles de porc en gelée trempées dans du nuoc mam...amusant, surtut qu'il me fa...

Woke up to jack-hammers going 10 to the dozen in the room down the hall. I guess they think that if they have to get up at a silly hour in the morning so should everyone else. No pronblem though since it was only 30 mins. before we had to get up anyway. On the way back to the mainland the boat stopped off for a final swim (for the passengers tha...