Very pretty.
You have to take a bus into Halong city, and then a boat to tour the bay. Hundreds of rocks jut out from the ocean like mammoth chess pieces. All you Lord of the Ring lovers...this place is like something out of a movie.
You stop over at some of them to check out the lime stone caves. Surreal formations in each of them. And the guides have a legend for everything.
The boat trip was a great opportunity to unleash the Indian goatee boy to the united nations.My favourite was Raphael from
Another guy from Holland (can't remember his name) kept finding excuses to curse me.
Holl: "You're not staying on the boat with us?"
Jon "No"
Holl: Bastard. Anyways... there's a guitar there.. play something.
Jon: " I don't play to well"
Holl: Bastard.
Sweet guy.
Anyway, here comes the good part. Didn't sleep on the boat because I wanted to check out Cat Ba Island. The only only inhabited places amongst all those big rocks.
So I get there only by
I managed to rent a tent. Great.
Right on the beach. Brilliant!
At night all you can see are the silhouettes of huge limestones in the ocean and the stars above. Spectacular.
Everybody suddenly goes home leaving you on the beach alone. Bloody scary. It might sound amazing. But trust me, it's pee-in-your-pants scary when you don't have any company.
This is a beach surround by rock on all sides... one of which has a gangway to takes you around to the mainland.
So you're in your tent.. Trying to sleep. And you're thinking... the Ninjas will come down the mountain and steal my money.
On that boat there... the ninjas on it will swim here and take my money.
Maybe they'll throw their pointy star weapons from there. I won't have a chance to explain to them that I don't have any money in my fanny pack!
At
Today I just made my way from Cat Ba island to Ninh Bin.
More updates later.
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