Vietnam

There are 12 people including myself on the Reunification Express Tour. We have taken a bus for four hours one way to Ha Long Bay. It was beautiful however the weather was not great.



Ha Long Bay



One of the original boat - there were called junks


We slepted on the boat and we had two people to a cabin. It was amazing to see the mountains that are very similiar to the mountains on the Yatazee River in China. We also went to Hang Sung Sot caves that are embedded in the mountains. It was very similiar to the caves in South Africa. When we were on our boat, the locals rowed out to the boats to sell their goods. It reminds me of Thailand. One of the boys from the tour jumped into the water to buy beer.



One of the boys - getting a beer


It was amazing to see floating houses and even a bank.



The bank on the water

On the way back to Hanoi we stopped at a ceramic village and saw the girls painting the clay pottery.



One of the girls doing pottery.
In Hanoi, I went down to the old quarter and saw a temple and a beautiful lake before we booked a train to head to Hue. We were in soft sleepers. That means 4 in a room.
Today, we went to a Royal group dinner.