Day 5 of Hanoi Trip

23 July 2008, the train arrived Hanoi station around 5am. We would rather walk back to hotel, also don't want to pay extra to the taxi driver. We spent 1 hour walking to enjoy the morning scene of Hoan Kiem Lake. It's only 6am that the park was full of people doing excercises like tai chi or playing badminton.
Back to hotel to pack our bags for the next destination - Halong Bay. The local trip bus came to fetch us at 8:30am.
Our tour guide, Minh from the Guang Ning province. It took about 3 hours bus trip to reach Halong. Minh sang us their folk song 'Vietnam~ Ho Chi Minh~, Vietnam~ Ho Chi Minh~'. We felt asleep in the bus because we hadn't had a good sleep in the night train.

The bus stopped us halfway at a souvenir shop for toilet.

A portrait of Halong Bay.
String by string, slowly became a picture.

Here we reached the Halong Bay!

Docked onto the Halong Phoenix Cruiser.
Lunch time before the afternoon activities.

Leisure after lunch.

Reached the Amazing Cave.

hmm.... what's so amazing, compared to Gua Tempurung.
The view of Halong from Amazing cave.
Get ready for the next activity - Kayaking.
So tiring of kayaking, had some fresh fruits and rest for awhile.
Evening, do whatever you like...... bath, swim, sleep, read, etc...
You could just jump off from the cruise and swim in the sea. Minh warned everybody not to jump from the top.
The local people row their boats near to the cruise and tried to sell something to the tourists.
Dinner and beer.
Beer was cheaper than the softdrink, everybody enjoy more beer here. Top of the cruise was more windy.


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