Day 40: Halong Bay II

22/12/2006
We got up fairy early this morning for some breakfast and then a visit to some floating markets – yet another commission based stop for these tourist agencies, heh. Here’s the view:

We headed straight home after that and ended up in Hanoi late afternoon. We had arranged to meet with Mark and Danni for [...]

Day 39: Halong Bay I

21/12/2006
After a big night out and getting back to the room a bit woozy, I had to get up early so we could catch the bus and boat to Halong Bay. It was about a 1 hour bus ride before we arrived at Vietnam’s richest city (because of the discovery of coal mines). We got [...]