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Bright and early get up this morning for our 8am bus to Halong Bay. A 3½ hour bus journey and we were there with the rest of our group, faced with 100's of junk boats. We clambered over about 3 boats to get to ours - not easy work when you've got a 12kg bag on your back!
Our boat was lovely, set on 3 floors, ground floor is cabins, 1st floor is the dining area and more cabins to the back and the 2nd floor is the top deck, great to view but a bit cold to stay too long up there!
Setting sail into the islands of Halong Bay was just amazing! There is a constant mist round the whole 2000 islands sticking out into the sea which just makes it so eery. We then shortly had lunch and getting nice and warm when our guide told us we were going kayaking! Not the most greatest news we wanted to hear.
Smoothly lowering ourselves into the kayak we followed our guide through and between the islands, under and through the caves and past floating villages - it seems that their form of supermarket consists of a small rowing boat sailing up and down the village packed full of food and fresh veg. What a way to live!
Surprisingly Claire lasted a lot longer than the 20 minutes on our previous attempt at kayaking! We soon surfaced after being a cave to a huge opening, surrounded completely by the islands all joined together - it was here that our guide told us this was called death cave, because the water fills in at a certain time every day by the tide and you cant back out...we certainly didnt stay long!!
After an hour and half kayaking - arms and legs nearly dropping off we went back to the boat to get changed in time for our evening meal. Fish again and some strange sponge type food - didnt eat much of that one!
We then all relaxed on the deck with beers for the rest of the night before going to bed. Perfect
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