Halong Bay.
... was AMAZING! We got picked up early in the morning, and by midday were on these lovely big boats with a restaurant on the main deck and sun loungers on the top deck. Ahhhh. Spent a night sleeping on the boat (lovely rooms with en suite included) and a night in a hotel on Cat Ba Island, which was the nicest one we've stayed in since we've been away. And the food - yeeeeah, we didn't go hungry.
Did loads of wicked things like swimming off the boat, going to caves, going in small boats into/through the caves, kayaking, went on a two hour trek in our flip flops/jandals/Birkenstocks (hmmmm), and went to MONKEY ISLAND and fed the monkeys, yeah! I've got a great photo of a monkey drinking Coke, and another one eating Pringles. Luckily they were eating plenty of fruit and healthy stuff or they'll all end up with obesity problems.
Met loads of ace people too: some brilliant Aussies, Brits, Canadians, Dutch, Americans... and one Irish girl who needed slapping - she was the most annoying person I've probably ever met - claimed she was travelling on her own as no-one was mad enough to go with her. I concur.
Been back in Hanoi for one more night, and managed to catch up with Kylie H from NZ/London whilst on her nine month gargantuan trip. Nice.
We're off in about 10mins on a bus down to Hue, which is halfway down the country. 14 hours on a bus - love it. But the rest of the stops we're doing over the next three weeks will be short ones so that should be fine.
Sorry, this is a boring update. More soon.
Did loads of wicked things like swimming off the boat, going to caves, going in small boats into/through the caves, kayaking, went on a two hour trek in our flip flops/jandals/Birkenstocks (hmmmm), and went to MONKEY ISLAND and fed the monkeys, yeah! I've got a great photo of a monkey drinking Coke, and another one eating Pringles. Luckily they were eating plenty of fruit and healthy stuff or they'll all end up with obesity problems.
Met loads of ace people too: some brilliant Aussies, Brits, Canadians, Dutch, Americans... and one Irish girl who needed slapping - she was the most annoying person I've probably ever met - claimed she was travelling on her own as no-one was mad enough to go with her. I concur.
Been back in Hanoi for one more night, and managed to catch up with Kylie H from NZ/London whilst on her nine month gargantuan trip. Nice.
We're off in about 10mins on a bus down to Hue, which is halfway down the country. 14 hours on a bus - love it. But the rest of the stops we're doing over the next three weeks will be short ones so that should be fine.
Sorry, this is a boring update. More soon.
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