Halong Bay Cruises

... me when I visited Ha Long Bay with the Indochina Junk Company, an eco-tourism company that specializes in small luxury cruises on the Bay. Our English speaking, guide, Tuyen Luong became very interested in my XO, and in the OLPC Global Education Project ...

After a lot of research into Halong Bay cruises (it's a mine field out there with stories of rats on boats and alsorts) we settled on an overnight sail on a new boat called Eclipse Sail. After reading a number of horror stories on the internet we were ...

... (bigger than Quinn), black with white faces, and had yard-long tails. Our guide said in the 12 years he'd been doing Halong Bay cruises, he'd only seen that breed of monkey one other time. They are pretty rare. We felt like we'd hit the jackpot! Back ...

... -ba, ba-baa, oh baby', the anticipation of two romantic nights aboard a junk boat called ‘Phoenix’ and three days cruising Halong Bay was the reason. Bruce, Annie and Oscar had given this as a wedding gift and the company knows it’s our ...

... control, probably republicans too, definitely very prim and proper boys whom I expect the most gentlemanly behavior and no less. Halong Bay is beautiful, cruising amongst hundreds of islands and spending the night in the sea looking up at the sky ...

... us a lot of picture opportunities. Our first activity during the afternoon was exploring the Surprise caves, the biggest in Halong Bay. They were discovered by the French in 1901 and on discovery they were so surprised.........hence the highly original ...

... on the boat for a casual cruise and relax, early lunch then back on the bus for a 4 hour return to Hanoi. So that was Halong Bay - truly truly amazing! Unfortunately we did not get to see a lot of Hanoi but from what we saw we definately preferred it over ...

... crew stayed on the boat as they were only doing one night, while 5 of us went on to Cat Ba island - the biggest island in Halong bay. We mountain biked around the island in the sun, and when we got tired we stopped off at a tiny little roadside stall, ...

We decided to spend the days before Christmas cruising Vietnam's Halong Bay in a junk boat. There was nothing junky about this boat. It was pure luxury and glamour. The boat was bedecked in dark wood, white trim and brass rails. The crew showered us with ...

(Brian) I will certainly never forget my 30th birthday. We had booked a 3-day/2-night Halong Bay cruise through our hotel on board a ship called the Amber Gold.  Throughout Hanoi there are countless agencies trying to sell Halong Bay trips and the ...

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 ...

... stocked with a suitcase full of granola bars, which allowed us to get back to the hotel without starving to death. Loved Halong Bay, but it's definitely best enjoyed sans crazy driver next time. Enjoy the photos, more adventures to come on Vietnam! Big ...

... did - it was eeeeeeasily the most expensive outing we had in SE asia - for only two days and one night...But this was Halong Bay! A descending dragon legend says created this bay ... also touted as a possible eighth wonder of the world. We weren't going ...

... there instead! Hanoi Backpackers is a very well-established hostel in the city, and is legendary for its tours of Halong Bay as they are serious booze cruises. You meet loads of people in Southeast Asia who have gone to Halong Bay with them and (almost) ...

... see a local cave.  The cave was interesting and packed with other tourists, but we would have preferred to have been outside exploring Halong Bay.  After our cave tour we were brought over to a little village to get some (beat-up) kayaks so we ...

... living on the island in a shack 24/7 to protect it from tourists and other companies.  Like many islands all over Halong Bay, it's been transformed into a recreational playground.  The inside of the island is the Dong Thien Cung (Heaven cave), ...

... Vietnamese house turned into an eatery. Many cocktails and some Hanoi Vodka later we called it a night, as Sheri & I had a 3 day Halong Bay cruise booked. It was 1am and too late for Matty & Noosha to get a booking in to join us but I passed ...

Halong Bay, Vietnam Our overnight trip to Halong Bay was magical; relaxing and romantic and very interesting.  I booked the Indochina Junk Company, Red Dragon Boat through the Hotel Elegance.  We chose an Indochina Junk cruise ...

... excursion.  And we did experience a true trip highlight which is described in one of the photos.  If you go to Halong Bay, choose carefully - there were a lot of boats that looked like floating beach weeks at Cancun, and we could very easily ...

We've got an early pick-up again today. If you come to Hanoi you will be in a very small minority if you don't visit Halong Bay. In fact, many people only come to Hanoi so they can get to Halong Bay. Our hotel staff expect us to be going there and offer ...