After a comfy nights sleep in our fancy boat cabin we went upstairs for our 7:30am breakfast. It was a buffet breakfast so we didn't have to sit at the fussy eaters table this time, and we've actually had sun today so it was a beautiful way to start the day, surrounded by many of the limestone rock islands. Shortly afterwards we arrived at a pearl farm which was situated in the middle of Halong Bay somewhere. A guide took us around the various areas and explain...

The shuttle bus picked us up at around 8:30am in the end, and we commenced the four hour drive to Halong Bay, having a rest stop halfway. There was about 17 of us on the tour in total plus our awesome tour guide Luan. It was a very friendly group from all different areas of the world, and the only other Brits were a lovely couple called Chelsea and Reece, who were from.... WALES! North Wales actually, very near where Lowri will soon me moving back to! We arrived ...