Today we booked a tour with the hotel to go to Halong Bay. Halong Bay is currently up for vote to become one of the new wonders of the world so we definitely had to make it there and I had a few friends that has gone and said it's a must see. So our tour bus showed up at 7:30 am and we hit the road on a 3 hour journey east from Hanoi to Halong Bay. On the way we stopped for potty break at a textile strip mall that sold tea kettle, plates, and a variety of clay pots. What caught my eye was off to the side of this store their was about 30 handicapped kids making these beautiful works of tapestry. I was in awe as how they spend tens of hours to make one of these pieces of art that I bought one.
Once we arrived in Halong Bay we were meet with our junk boat. We boarded and headed out to these mystical columns of rock jetting out from the sea. There is nothing I can write and many have tried to convey how beautiful this bay is but there really is no words to describe it, so I leave it up to you to see for yourself.
We stopped and had lunch on the junk before we took a short cruise on a smaller boat to be able to get to some of the small caves that the junk can't make it in. After this we got back on the junk and disembarked on one of the big rock columns to do a little spelunking. It was a beautiful site. The whole bay is breathtaking. We headed back to the marina and headed back to Hanoi.
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