The trip to HaLong Bay began at half 8 Saturday morning, an early start for all but by now we are all used to early mornings. The journey to HaLong was around 3 hours long, fortunately the bus we were in was nicely air conditioned which kept us all cool!
Our tour guide, Tony or some Vietnamese name none of us could pronounce and whom we also really like, talked a bit and then sang us a traditional Vietnamese song. That is what the bus trip to Ha Long mainly consisted of, it was quite uneventful, except for when we stopped of at a rest stop along the road, where we were brought to a handmade crafts store.
When we arrived at the dock, we got on our boat which was a junk boat, thats its name! The boat was nice, bedrooms and all although some had no air conditioning, hate that!! The first day on the boat we ate nice food, went kayaking for a bit to Monkey Island and later in the evening went swimming which most of us had been looking forward to for quite a while.
This morning we got up and went swimming again, then after a quick lunch and we were off the boat and on our way back to the hotel.
All ready to go for another tough weeks work!!!
Rob T.
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