We're now in Hue, which is about 11 hours south of Hanoi, after 3 wonderful days touring around the beautiful Halong Bay!!! What an awesome three days we had!!! Our first day was spent exploring caves, Kyacking and cruising around the stunning islands at Halong Bay, followed by a very comfortable stay on our boat. We then enjoyed our second day trecking on Cat Ba Island, chilling out on its georgous beach and riding around on a moterbike we had hired (who we named Nelson The Second - of course)!!! We both felt really special when we arrived in Cat Ba town itself, as everyone we had been staying with us throught-out the Halong Bay tour, was checked into a really vile looking and run down 2* hotel which was situated inland somehwere on Cat Ba
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