Halong Bay

Monday morning, 7.30 am - getting up for our trip to the Halong Bay. After a quick breakfast, we were picked up for our 3 hours busdrive to Halong City. A quite boring trip, nothing special to see. So I guess that's the reason our driver tried to make it more exciting by driving like ... - Gaby calls it asshole :-) There were a few situations when the only thing we could do was CLOSING OUR EYES.

But when we finally got there and saw our boat... It was really nice, with pretty little, clean cabins and nice staff on the boat. We couldn't wait for starting the cruise!

And the tour was just awesome! At Halong Bay there are about 2.000 rocks in different sizes and shapes, one formation more beautiful than the other. Sitting in the sun (btw sun for the first time since we are in vietnam!) on the sundeck, cruising along these rocks, having a beer, smoking a cigarette. Nice one!

The trip to a nearby cave was nice, but not that exciting so we were looking forward to the Kayaking in the afternoon. And that was really fun. I think Gaby never did that before (Zeugwart once) and so there was some experience missing... Anyway - we managed to paddle around the bays for about an hour without overturning. And we also were the lucky ones who saw 2 monkey families in a quiet bay. Believe it or not - even if the monkeys (with about 15 little tarzan monkey babies) were really really really cute, Gaby did NOT call them Mietzi :-)) Yeah!

Back on the Junk we had time to chill a bit on the sundeck, having a beer of course, watching the sunset... I can't find words for how beautiful that was. Gaby got a little romantic, started snuggleing. But just a bit :-) (As always, it's all about the romance...)

To be honnest, there was not much to do on the junk, eating, drinking, chilling, reading books, chatting with the other travellers. So that's exactly what we did after a delicious seafood dinner.

And what we did the other day on the junk, before the bus took us back to Hanoi...