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Published: January 7th 2012
Today I woke up on a boat called the Opera. She is a beautiful boat made of timber with many rooms including the dining room, the sun deck, the entrance room, and many a cabins. One of the ladies showed me how to make the Opera out of Origami and I thought well this will have to be a very big piece of paper to make that 😊 . We had breakfast and then went to the most exciting part of the trip. The Halong Bay Caves! We went on a small boat to one of the islands. We went up the island and into the wonderous limestone caves. I was speachless. The walk opened up into a big cavern with stalacmites and stalactites everywhere. When you look up you see a substance that looks like soft sand, only it's hard! The next cave was even bigger. Apparentely the French army used the caves as shelters and when they first came in they were surprised by the size of the first one, (which is actually the smallest!) Then they went deeper and were even more suprised by the second one's size, (thats why it's called surprise cave!) And when they finally got to the third one, (which by the way is the biggest roomiest holiest most amazing place you have seen) they were absouloutely babaphed. (pronounced BA-BAF-LD). After learning all this we went outside again and went to the boat, but we just had to feed the cute little native monkeys sitting on the limestone ledges with water directly beneath them our bananas. It was really funny because there were Vietnamese ladies in boats underneath, and whenever someone missed the ledge, plop onto the squid filled boat . It was good fun but eventually we had to stop so we got back on the boat, and then back on a 5 hour bus trip to Hanoi and that was the end of our super exciting day at Halong Bay. I'm looking forward to writing to you tomorrow from Hoi An. Zac. P.S. thanks for the message grandma
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Isaac Parsons
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If your happy and you know it clap your hands!!!:D
Hi Zac Hopefuly u r having a awesome time in Vietnam. I am really enjoying reading your blog about your time.I love hearing about those caves,did u take any photos in the cave if so could u send my mum the photos on ka.parsons@yahoo.com! we might be able to cach up some time From Isaac ; D