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We arrived at the next destination after a long bus ride from hanoi with the local Viatnamese people, which is a bit crazy as they tend to hang out of the bus doors and shout for anyone to get on the bus, they dont even really stop the bus to let people on they just have to dive right on!!! Also common thing we've noticed with the Viatnamese men is that they all have really long nails, its discusting as they're really dirty aswell!!!!
Ha Long City isn't really somewhere where travellers stop for long, its mainly somewhere that travellers go to for the boat trip to ha Long Bay and Cat Ba, which we did on the second day.
The first night in Ha Long city we went to a local restaurant as this was much cheaper than any of the ones along the front, big mistake!!! Me and Beth got a margarita pizza which i can only describe was like a sweet tomato cake, it was revolting!!! We soon learnt that to get some nice food we'd have to stick to local viatnamese dishes which we know they can cook!
For the next few days we'd booked a boat trip with the guy who ran the hotel which we were staying in...we thought it was reasonably priced at about 60 quid for 2 nights accomodation (one on Cat Ba island, one on the boat), a walk through the caves, all meals incuded (but not drinks), a visit to monkey island and kayaking...it was definately made out to be better than it was...We got to do most of the things other than the visit to monkey island, also the food was revolting (fish dinner every night) and there was loadsa waiting about for the organisers and boats etc. We've learnt not to book through hotels anymore and just do this ourselves, its miles cheaper and you have the freedom to do as you please.
We met some really nice people on the boat a couple from near Torquay and a New Zealand guy which we went out with the night we spent on Cat ba island. we ended up in a Karaoke bar which consisted of us having the microphone most of the night and me belting out some real tunage!!!! (i can just sing!!!! Not!haha).
Once we'd finished the 2 night 3 day boat trip we decided to stay in Ha Long city another night before setting off on the next long adventure to hue....
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