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Today has been amazing... my unicorn got her spark back and i picked her up at 9 30am and loaded our gear onto the bikes and we were off, i bought a couple of local maps and suprisingly it was pritty easy to get out of the city, the further we got away the quieter the roads got. 3 hours into the ride my unicorn decided to blow a fuse and some wires got disconnected, i think i know why the unicorns dont exist anymore... there so high maintence. but there is nothing a couple of vietnamise machanics cant fix i found a machanic on the side of the road, and i was back on the road in 30 mins, it was a good break getting off the bike my ass was soo sore. we continued heading east and got off the main highway and the roads narrower asphalt turned into dirt and dirt turned into dirt with pot holes in it and then dirt with pot holes turned into a dead end.... but i was armed with a map and absloutely no knowlege of the vietnamise language, but i flagged a truck driver down and he was kind enough to piont us in the right directions, a couple km later we arrived at the end of the road and there were a couple of boats in the middle of noware, ready to take us accross to Cat Ba Island, we missed the 2 30 boat and had to wait till 3 45, we haddent had any lunch yet and this place only had some bisuites for sale so..... biscuites it was. i had snooze on a bench, some how i got into such a deep slep i went to turn over and fell off the bench, the people around me found it funny, its a releaf to see that the vienamise have a sence of humer. The boat arrived and we loaded our bikes on and 30 mins later we got to cat ba island we had about a 20 min ride till we reached the town center, and the ride was amazing the scenery was beautiful and there was a cool breaze blowing and we had the GO PROS filming it was great..... we got into town and stoped at a hotel i read about in the lonley planet guide book, 15 buks for a room two double beds and the most amazing view of the bay, we checked in and went to find some food, we ate some realy good sea food and we organised a one day boat tour for tomorro around ha long bay and were gonna visit some caves tomorro go snokeling, kayaking and visit monkey island, looking forward to that. after eating the sun was setting and the hotel owner told us to follow his cos he knows a great place to see the sunset, and he was right we got to a look out overlooking the whole bay and national park and the sun was setting, it was beautiful i took some photos but i know they will not do this place justice, we stayed till the sun set and then i herd about a floating village near by so we rode there and it had gotten dark by now but we made it and spent some time there and then headed back i had to stop on the way back to let a frog cross the road, and now im back in the hotel i got good wi fi here so i called home Dominic was over so had a talk with mum and dad and doiminc was happy to see me, well this is only the start of this amazing place and tomorro will be a nice day spent visiting islands near by. ill let the Unicorn rest tomorro and then we head up north towards the chinese border....
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