We were awoken at 7.30 with a little Vietnamese man knocking and saying "kiss me, wake up plis" and then hand breakfast in the restaurant bit of the boat again. We then had some time to swim with the giant jelly fish - which I didn't - before chugging back to Halong City Harbour. We had to check out of our rooms so they could be scrubbed and changed ready for the next group, so we dumped our bags at the front of the boat by the big cracked wooden drago...

Today was another early starts to head out to Halong Bay. We were promised by our travel lady Yen (aka Ian) that it would be a nice boat with people our age for a one night stop-over in the bay. This started with a 4hr bus ride from Hanoi to Halong City, which was painfully uncomfortable, though bloody Julia slept all the way as usual. There was of course the obligatory stop-off at a tack-market where American and Chinese tourists purchased overpriced junk. On o...