We just went to Halong Bay, apparently one of those places on the planet you're meant to see before you die etc ec, and spent two days and a night on a boat. It was rather pleasant - particularly after coming from Hanoi which is humbug central- to have two days of travel, meals, accommodation, activities organised for us.And Halong Bay is pretty eery and spectacular- massive limestone peaks and monoliths just sticking out of the very still (somewhat polluted) water.
We visited an enormous, incredibly impressive cave (Pete wants to get a map of it and set a D&D game there), and climbed a painful number of steps on one of the islands (literally painful, my thighs are still cranky)- the veiw from the top was breathtaking though.
On our boat were a few very lively Brazilians who somehow had us singing karaoke at night - something I'd promised myself I'd never do. It took a fair few glasses of wine - which we felt the next morning when we were up bright and early to kayake around a floating fishing village hidden among the íslands...
We were a bit disturbed by the number of dead fish floating on the surface, and, well - let's face it - the pollution was so bad we didn't sê the sky for two days... But it was still a relaxing few days, nice hanging out on a boat.
Back in bustling Hanoi now, heading down to the central coast tomorrow. Today's mission: find a cinema playing the Avengers in English...
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