Thursday 20th August 2015
We didn’t have to wake up early this morning but since I
haven’t slept much since I broke my arm I was awake. I got dressed and lingered
a little too long over breakfast meaning packing was a rush.
By the time we had all checked out the taxi was waiting for
us so we piled in with all our bags and made our way to the bus station. We
tried unsuccessfully to sell our extra ticket (but got almost half of the money
back from the conductor on the bus!)
The bus ride was ok taking about four hours but we did have
to change buses once not that we were told and bags almost ended up returning
to Hanoi without their owners! From the bus we got a 30min ferry and then another
bus to Cat Ba Town.
In town we had a late lunch and the found a hostel and went
to the beach we got there in time for sunset which was pretty beautiful. We
returned to the hostel and showered before finding a place to eat I had pizza
as I felt like I needed something big and it did the trick. Back at the hostel
I pretty much just headed to bed.
sunset!
the beach!
Pizza dinner!
Friday 21st August 2015
We needed to be up early for our boat trip today but that
wasn’t a problem as I no longer seem to sleep. We had breakfast and then at 8am
walked to the jetty and got on the boat. It was the prettiest boat on the
water, painted white with beautiful furniture which made us happy.
We started off by sailing through Lan Ha Bay which is the
smaller less touristy version of Halong Bay but has the same limestone rock
formations which are so iconic to Halong Bay. The boat cruised at a steady pace
for a few hours before stopping so everyone could kayak through some caves. Of
course I couldn’t get off the boat and so I sunbathed and took photos from the
top deck.
About an hour later everyone came back and we had lunch on
board. The vegetarian selection left a bit to be desired and although ok
tasting there just wasn’t enough (except for rice we had enough plain white
rice to feed a village)
Once we had eaten we drove again to a swimming spot where a
few guys tried snorkelling but the visibility was shit of course I was still
stuck on the boat. Thankfully on Monkey Island I could go down on the beach
which was beautiful I sat in the water with my arm above my head.
Back on the boat it was home time. We had been on the water
since 8am and by 5pm we all felt hot sticky and hungry after showers it was
food shortly followed by bed
Saturday 22nd August 2015
After yet another bad sleep I was up and ready for the day
early I had breakfast and we said goodbye to a couple of the group who needed
to head back to Hanoi and then sat around all morning relaxing.
In the afternoon we walked to the beach. There are three and
we were told the second one was were it’s at so we set up camp there under an
umbrella. It was scorching so I sat in the sea a while but the current was
knocking me about and it was hard to keep my arm up so I got out.
We hadn’t been sat for long when this terrible music came
blaring out from the speakers behind us we couldn’t even talk to each other and
it was defiantly ruining the peaceful relaxed vibe we were searching for.
Thankfully pouting gets you everywhere and we were moved to the third beach
which was music free and was far prettier anyway! We got some food and chilled out
for a few hours.
In the evening we walked up to cannon fort to watch the sunset it was cool exploring the fort and the views were pretty stunning.
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