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i woke up spoiled by all the luxuries from the last day and started out with the nice breakfast on deck. nice talks again and a few minutes later we were visiting one of the caves around halong bay which was quite impressive back on the boat we stopped in a isolated place for a last swim. with all the kids and us (older) boys jumping off different boat levels. great fun and perfect view a last brunch buffet and we were back in halong were we boarded the bus with everyone well fed ...

I woke up early before my alarm went off. In clear weather, there are supposed to be great sunrises on Cat Ba Island. But it was still overcast. I decided to get up anyway and walk around the island. I came back and had breakfast with a couple of people in my group, packed up my things and went to the hotel where I had gotten my ticket. All I really knew was that my ticket was supposed to get me back to Hanoi and the first step was a bus ride. After that, I wasn't sure.I waited and waited and...

Vietnam has been keeping me busy, and a lot if it is just trying to stay out of the way of all the scooters.  Everyone, and I mean, everyone is on a scooter.  There aren't really that many traffic signals at the intersections either, so you just have to slowly walk across the street so they can see you and drive around.  It takes some guts but you get used to it.  The other problem is they park their scooters on the sidewalks, so you end up having to walk in the road a lot...

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia), Lina and Carola (Germany), Arancha, Marina, Monica and Teresa (Spain), Markus (Germany) We arrived onto Cat Ba Island and got taken for a 2 hour trek by an old Vietnamese guide. After climbing to the summit of a mountain, for some beautiful views across the island and down to the bay, we went on to see an old anti aircraft shelter, used in the Vietnam War against the Americans. The guide was 70 years...

Halong Bay is one of those places that you see in travel magazines or in glossy calenders and was on our "must do" list for Vietnam.  Our start from Hanoi could have been better as we leave in heavy rain and the bus to Halong City is packed full mainly with retired Germans complaining loudly about the poor tour organisation.  Things improved significantly once we reach the harbour and are split into separate groups depending on our tour (day trip, 1 night or 2 ...

Om 07:30 uur zijn we alweer bovendeks. Het is vandaag minder mistig en het uitzicht op de karstgebergten is gelukkig wat beter. We zien vissersbootjes, drijvende huizen en viskwekerijen en mensen die hun bootje met de voeten roeien. Op een gegeven momnet komt er een roeibootje langszij, dat aan onze boot vastgeknoopt word en zo een stuk mee lift. In plaats van te roeien, kunnen de vissers nu de vis uit hun netten halen. We meren nog voor de middag aan in Cat Ba. Het is maar een paar minuten ...

What we signed up for:One night sleeping on a junk.Visits to various caves & Monkey Island.Sea kayaking.Fishing and then barbecuing the catch on the beach.One night in a hotel on Cat Ba Island.A trek around Cat Ba National Park.What we got:A ride on the junk to Hang Trong Caves and then to Cat Ba Island.Two nights at the hotel - "No passport, no boat!"The kayaking being cancelled.No fishing.No barbecue.No Monkey Island.Some poor food.***On the first day we bumped into Neil & Jess - ag...

Last night we never sleep well again. The room on the boat is just too hot. No electricity supply after 2 am. Some of them even went to sleep on the deck. After the breakfast, we went to Cat Ba Island. There are nothing much on the island. I would just say bored. We went for a 2 hours treckking before check in to a Hotel. But hotel looks big, but not many guest. Actually we had an argument with the guide. We are promised to have the Monkey Island trip during we purchased for the trip,...

We stayed overnight at the Giang Son Hotel on Cat Ba Island. It was selected for us by the tour compay. Our hotel room was on the third floor at the front so, at dawn, we were able to watch boats in the harbour preparing to embark for the day's fishing. I believe the women in the sampans went around from boat to boat selling food to the crews. Before breakfast, we walked around the harbour front enjoying the sun and taking pictures.After breakfast, a bus took us back to the tour boat harbour ...

That is a place name; I have no offspring to tell you of.Booking up on a tour of My Son, the collective (Sam, Gemma, Liz and myself) took, first, a bus to the ancient Cham Towers at My Son, then, afterwards, a boat down the river to Hoi An. For once in Vietnam, you got what you pay for (ie not much), as opposed to the luxury tours we had been treated to further south.The towers themselves weren't anything spectacular, to be honest, especially compared to Angkor Wat (sorry to keep harping on a...

In 2007 I travelled from the south to the north of Vietnam. I met the friendly people in Saigon and the Mekong Delta, the somewhat reserved people in Hanoi, the different hill tribes in the north and somewhere in the middle I met typhone Lekima.

I flew all the way over the North Pole, stopped off in Korea, and finally landed in Hanoi, Vietnam. What a trip it was...my brother and his wife, who is from Vietnam, were married here in the states 3 years ago. Her family wasn't able to make it over, so we traveled there to meet her family and have a wedding with them.

yo! r` u` donig folks? last monday when back from wonderful cat ba island me and my brother heiko were faced with a dilemma. basically , it was that i didn`t like to spend more days in hanoi. i just don`t like the place at all. pollution is rampant (most people go around with masks covering their mounths and noses). the traffic on the streets, as heiko mentioned in his last entry, is unbeliavble chaotic. it just took too much energy staying allert all the time for fear of our ass being...

Ok...Fotos hochladen und alles ausfuehrlich zusammenschreiben dauert ewig. Ich werde versuchen mit den Fotos aktuell zu bleiben und stichwortartig zusammenfassen, was ich gemacht habe. Je nach Zeit, werd ich das alles ausfuehrlich ausformulieren...

Leaving cold Europe for a lovely, sunny tek through South East Asia. Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Bali, Borneo and then anything that comes along. All welcome to join?!