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Published: November 10th 2008
Halong Bay
Just before boarding our boatI somehow managed to find the one super fast internet cafe in all of Vietnam, so I took advantage and caught up with the picture uploading back to the Halong Bay trip.
By the way, I wasn't able to do the cave dive due to strong currents. But the regular dives were cool. I held a puffer fish. You tickle its sides and it puffs up right in your hands. I also put this weird starfish like thing in my palm. You rub the top of it and it suctions itself onto you, so you can turn it upside down and swim with it and stuff. There was also this weird type of coral, with literally thousands of soft appendages sticking out. As soon as you touch it, all of them retract inside of it really quickly. All of it was pretty neat.
Gotta tell you about the Bia Hoi stands... they're awesome. Basically every city and town in Vietnam has them and it's the cheapest beer I've ever seen anywhere in the world. It costs about $.80 for a 2 liter beer! And you sit on these little 8 inch tall plastic stools, quite similar to the ones
you use in kindergarten.
So anyway, I bumped into a group of solo travelers at the Bia Hoi stand in Nha Trang and they told me they hired a boat to take them squidding (I'm pretty sure that's not a word, but that's what we called it anyway). I hate fishing, but it was a fun group and the squid is out of this world in Vietnam. The squidding was pretty fun. We only caught like 3 of them the whole time, but they had a few kilos of previously caught squid and shrimp so we stuffed ourselves anyway.
Leaving here tomorrow and heading down to Ho Chi Minh City, aka Saigon.
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erin
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omg just looking at the snake wine makes me queasy