Back to ‘nam – Ha Long Bay
We’ll apologize ahead of time for the delays in getting out these next “Vietnam Series” posts. Carly’s parents are here, so we’ve been touring the city, sitting by the pool, and eating pretty much non-stop for the past week or more. The New Year started with 2 bouts of food poisoning, and a canceled trip to Bintan. So we’re more than making up for the missing food during that period. Anyways – after our brief stint in Hanoi, Carly and I booked a trip to Ha Long bay through Handspan Travel on the boat called the Dragons Pearl (hello, captain Jack Sparrow anybody – ok ok – I know it’s not the Black Pearl – but close enough). The drive from Hanoi to Ha Long is about 3 hours, which we took on a coach bus with a number of others. Great tour guide and good people to chat with. The boat was awesome, and this was truly a relaxing time. We were very happy to know, once we got into our room, that the toilet had been “Cleaned & Desiphected”
Carly and I chilling out on the upper deck in the breeze. This is the first time I’d enjoyed sub-20-degree-celsius weather in a while – so I was loving every second of the 15 degrees.
This is a floating fishing village out in the bay – very interesting to see this.
A shot of our boat from a hilltop at one of the islands we stopped at.
Closer shot of our boat.
There were a number of these ladies that would row around the ocean / bay stopping at islands and fishing villages selling goods to whoever would buy them.
One more shot of our boat – a nice profile view.
After our night in Ha Long Bay – we jumped back on the bus and headed into Hanoi again. We had dinner at the Tamarind Cafe, and then took a Taxi to the train station for our overnight train ride to Da Nang, which is about a 30 minute drive from our next destination – Hoi An.
More on that shortly!
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