I got back yesterday from a 3 day trip to Halong Bay. It was a 2 hour bus ride from Hanoi, and then a couple of days on a boat, including sleeping on the boat, and a night on Cat Ba Island.
Words just can't convey the awe of this place. Imagine over 1000 sharp tooth-like islands sticking out of the water, all covering the area the size of a city. When I woke up on the boat and looked out my cabin to that sight - wow! We stopped at an island visited a cave - easily the largest cave I've ever seen. It almost seemed like the island was hollow. There are also floating villages with a hundred or so local people who make there living fishing and selling to the tourists. The sheer number of tourist boats was also amazing. At night they all achored in the same place, and the lights from hundreds of boats looked like a floating city in itself.
On Cat Ba Island I hung out with some of the people I've met so far. Went to the beach, went into town in the evening.
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