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As the weather in Halong Bay has been so bad and quite a few trips cancelled we decided to take a daytrip, meaning three and a half hours there and the same back, on a minibus, giving us four hours on a boat. Our fellow day trippers are a jolly lot which is an absolute necessity as the organisation is a little bewildering as thousands of tourists are herded onto boats. Halong Bay is another world heritage site (by we have ticked a fair few off the list on this trip!) and is very atmospheric in the mist. Out in the Bay we row inside some the craters of towering limestone cliffs and land on a fish farm. It is fascinating to see a community of boat people living in tiny floating huts and row past the local school. We hadn't paid much attention to the details of the trip as we are a bit travel weary, so were quite blown away by the caves we visited on one of the islands. Instead of unimpressive over-rated tourist bait we found ourselves in an enormous spectacular cavern with amazing stalactites
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