Ha Long Bay day 1 From seeing this place on TV, pictures on postcards, I had a fair idea what I was going to see. And like the pyramids of Giza, Petra, Angkor Wat, etc. I was really looking forward to experiencing it for myself. Not created by human hands this time though, Ha Long is completely the work of nature. So off I set on my 2 day, 1 night trip. The van as is usual for this type of trip picked all the people from their different hotels/hostels and as it was pretty early in the morning there wasn't much chat on the 5 hour drive to Ha Long. The van broke down near the start of the journey making us arrive later than expected. But when we disembarked at the bay we started
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