It was my fourth visit to Ha Long Bay, but the first time my mother and I could together float on the sea, from sunset to sunrise on a large wooden junk. Our three days and two nights on a the wooden junk named Valentine, of Indochina Sails may just be our most memorable trip together since I was 10 years old and accompanied my mother to visit t...

Beim Ausflug zur Halong Bay hat sich bei uns das erste mal so richtig Urlaubsstimmung eingestellt. Fern ab von Hanois ewig hektischen Hupkonzert war die Bootsfahrt durch die ruhigen Bergriesen die aus der Meeresbucht rausragen - einst geformt durch einen Drachenfluegelschlag - wunderbar erholsam. Und zwischendurch wurde der Anker geworfen, bei e...

The next morning we left early from Singapore and arrived in Ho Chi Minh City where we then had to get a flight up to Hanoi. Once we got through customs... NIGHTMARE... and out of the international airport... NIGHTMARE... Our flight was then delayed... NIGHTMARE! However, that is lfe deal with it. We eventually arrived in Hanoi where we got a tr...

Halong Bay is the largest diamond in the crown of the Vietnamese tourism industry.A total of 1967 islands and islets, all covered with lush vegetation, and some of them harbouring nice limestone caves, visited by thousand of tourists every day. Most of them come on a day excursion, but I decided to sleep on one of these wooden junks, it was a gr...

In usual Irish Style we went on the batter to watch the Champions League final when we had to get up at 7.00 am. We eventually made it home at about 5. Of course the scum had to win! We eased our pain with plenty of drinking and smoking (flavoured tobacco - apple to be exact). Up at 7 Sein still half cut from 2 hours previous we headed off on ou...

We got our tour with 'Ocean Tours' they are really good and we recommend them to anyone coming out this way. We met Brendon, Irish and lives in Sydney, a couple Diana and Mariano from Amsterdam and Argentina they were all so lovely and glad we could spend the time on the Island with them. 17th - We got the mini bus to Halong Bay about 3 hrs and ...

Sin Chao, he said. What? - I asked confused. Sin Chao, he looked into my face and smiled. Hello in Vietnamese. You are very nice. I blushed and mumbled something. Great opening line though. He was a tour guide to another group. We are in the most magnificent cave I've ever seen in my life. Colorful lights are illuminating ten meter tall stalacti...

viet nam will be new destination in your choice. The hospitality and friendly of vietnamese will be a power to keep your foot on the your travel

They mystical Halong Bay! What a wonderful experience! It is hard to describe what a wonderfully beautiful experience it is to cruise this mystical bay filled with endless limestone karst islands. Even the misty weather couldn't detract from the beauty, it actually made it more beautiful! The first day we set sail on our amazing Chinese junk ( n...

After an early start and a four hour bus journey (including un overturned lorry full of chickens) we boarded the Dream Voyage for our boat trip around Halong Bay. Even though we had paid a bit extra for the deluxe option, we were still abit unsure what to expect but the boat turned out to be surprisingly good even though it was a bit of a strugg...