This morning things between the host and us were still tense. He kept out of our way most of the time except for breakfast but neither of us ate much. We then set off back to the marina, about a 4 hour trip. Cool weather and again great scenery. We arrived at the marina to be greeted by the cheer squad again, we had a group photo this time taken by the host and then got in the car to be driven down to the office for payment. Our speed freak driver was back. We pa...

We got up at 5.30am and had breakfast at 6am then got ready for our trip to Halong Bay. We were picked up just after 8am for the 3 and half hour drive to the harbour where we would board our boat for the cruise and one night stay on Halong and Bai Tu Long Bay. The guy who picked us up came into the foyer of the hotel and asked around for us. He came over to us and shoved a mobile phone under our noses and asked if we were the people named on the text message he w...