This morning was our earliest morning yet with a 6:45 start. We were picked up from our hostel at 8am and joined our tour group for the day; and ecclectic mix of Japanese, Norwegians, Chinese, an American and a friendly Canadian. Our tour guide was also lovely, even if some of her English was slightly difficult to understand at times. The journey was about 4 hours long, but thankfully there was air-conditioning and we had a stop half way through at an indoor craft market where Liv was accused of stealing a bracelet worth $1.50...I definitely steal it and through limited English finally managed to persuade her that I had actually already paid for it, despite being told about ten times 'no'. We carried on with the journey and about 2km before reaching Halong Bay, we
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