Wow, that was me a few special days. We were announced as a three-day trip to Ha Long Bay. It was also equally necessary, because Hanoi is a violent city. I could see the rest of the float on a bay frankly even use. Our trip there was in Ha Long City on a boat (a junk, of course) to switch and from there the famous bay of Ha Long to sail (according to legend, a dragon of the sea has slipped and a very special track islets of sharp left). On the boat we would stay for the next day some crazy things and then at night in a hotel on an island to sleep.
Two Dutch who we are in the ho (s) tel had met went along on the trip, so that was fun right away. In the bus and on the boat we met two other couples: a (young) couple from Israel and two ladies from tropical Australia. Eight of them we had great fun. Incidentally, the tour itself was thick even worth it.
The Ha Long Bay is incredible. He was a little foggy, but then we were already prepared for them by previous visitors. The islands are formed and capricious stabbing as silly obstacles from the sea. Very special, especially from a small boat. Our cabins were on the boat with all luxury to be so well on that front, we came with our nose in the butter. After an impressive yet the bay we were presented with a special cave. As a kind of big mouth formed a special space in the firmament of a mountain. Inside, with beautiful lighting and the interplay of stalachtieten mieten brought to attention. With some imagination you could in some points of the strange creatures and little people recognize. Incidentally sommigge projections also showed very well as (how prosaic) falussen indicate. It was all in all a wonderful interplay of breath, oh's and ah's and giggles.
After a night on the boat, which was heralded with karaoke, we woke up in the fairytale world of darkness the day before we had to forget. Beautiful. A further breakfast we headed toward the island of Cat Ba, which half has been declared a national park. Please check into our hotel there (the eleventh floor, what a view!) And we could move toward our climbing walk in the park. Through a kind of semi-jungle we climbed towards a rusty tower high on the mountain. Alone he stood, with no space for stalls, benches or other tourist trappings. Very pure and full of rust. The sign "up to 5 people at once" gave little confidence. Without squeak of the tower (but with a few plaintive sounds of yours truly) was the view reached. Beautiful all.
In the afternoon, then a boat trip to Monkey Island. The name made me (and others) directly to a famous computer game of the late nineties thinking. The island was not too large and mainly from a beach and inaccessible rocks to exist. Oh, and of course monkeys. Cute, but decent spicy critters who did not flinch an annoying tourist on the beach chasing. The guide (actually called, but because of its length usually called Minivan) warned us that too close to the monkeys sometimes on a visit to the hospital would be faced. Some caution was therefore required, but after some mutual Werder dignities to have exchanged, man and ape came increasingly closer to one another. The vicissitudes existed consisted mainly of foods ...
The night on Cat Ba island was a happy mixture of rice with chopsticks and beer with a chair massage. Oh, and because of an international power-saving action, there was an hour candlelight. Very nice all. With a sad feeling we took the last morning slowly achscheid of the island, the bay and our new friends. A wonderful adventure full of romantic caves, splash around in kayaks, chatting with Jan-and-everybody and laughter ...
