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Another early start this morning but instead of a nice fry up we had to hit 10 million steps to get to the top of one of the islands - again not the best news we could have heard. Look at the photo's of the island with the little pagoda thing on top - thats the one we went up! We were well knackered by the time we reached to top of it and thought we were hard done to - then we thought about the poor b*****s who had t build it and tale the stuf up there!
From here we went to another island, hime to the 'amazing cave' which is a cave and it's amazing. Its absolutley massive inside with 3 huge rooms and it was used in the war for the vietnamese soldiers to hide out in. 1000's at a time!
Back to Halong City for our bus ride back. We got dropped off on the way so we could get another bus direct our next stop, Ninh Binh. A liittle rickety old thing that alreay had a few peope on it, none of whom spoke English but all enjoyed staring at us. The bus conductor ripped us off as well he owed us some change - about £2 but when we had to change buses half way there though we simply dissappeared along with our change.
Also, when the bus was puling into the stop, Claire was the only person stood up and when the brakes slammed on she went flying full length with just her back pack breaking her fall, fortunatley not her face! Slightly embarassing to have a packed out bus of Vietnamese pointing all saying 'aaaahhhhh'
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