Halong Bay

Our sleeper train was 14 hours long but didn’t feel that long. We stayed up till around 11 talking and playing Game of Life on an iPad. Liz won, I came 3rd!

It was the best sleeper we had been on so far, It felt like it anyway.

We then got on a coach to Halong Bay, it took around 3 hours and we arrived at 8 in the morning. We paid to get breakfast at the hotel to eat and kill some time, as check in wasn’t until 10 30.

After check in we showered and relaxed before meeting the tour at 12 to get a coach to the port where a Junk boat was to take us around the Mountains in the sea:

We ate on the boat as well… fine dining! Liz had the vegetarian option and I had fish, such as crab cakes in a crab shell, snapper fish, rice, noodles, shrimps (which I didn’t touch) and loads of other sides:

The views were spectacular, limestone rocks cascading out of the sea like icebergs:

We stopped so people could go kayaking through some of the caves in the rocks, we didn’t do this as it was pretty expensive for what it was, and money is getting tight for this part of our trip.

We then floated around some more and visited the caves within one of the limestone rocks:

We then went back to the port. The scenery was amazing, the mist around the mountains made it even more surreal and eery. 

That evening, we were so tired, we walked to get some snacks before heading back to the hotel to relax early, and both of us fell asleep by half 9!

Next stop, Hanoi.