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A littel more from Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, although we are now in Hoi An - but that entry comes next. Hanoi was briefly visited as it was too crazy for us - the traffic was a mare! we stayed two nights saw a water puppet theatre show which was really good and then due to the constant harrassament from the hotel staff we booked a 3 day 2 night boat trip to (peace and quiet...dom) or otherwise known as Ha Long Bay. The pics speak for themselves however, it was truly beautiful and we both really enjoyed the swimming, kayaking albeit Dawn was a tad scared of the open water and potential sharks, however jason coaxed for want of a better word her into venturing further which she did and was glad she did...eventually. Ps there were no sharks in the south china sea! The unexpected part of the trip was finding an island with loads of boxes of cigs washed up on the beach!!!! so being the entreprenuers that we are we loaded the kayak with as many as we could (at least 2000) with a view to selling or barting them back on dry land! Secondly, or visit to Monkey Island, which as the name implies is an island inhabited by monkeys. Whoever said monkeys were cute....were wrong! while we were there they attacked two tourists....biting one and trying to steal the other ones rucksack! It was quite strange to see a fully grown man being mugged by a 1 foot monkey! We witnessed all this after fleeing into the water...being the cowards we are! We then decided to brave it and climbed to the top of the islands, whcih was a strenous climb, see photos, but well worth it for the view and thankfully no more encounters witht he monkeys - they were too busy attacking tourists on the beach!
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