Our next destination was to be Halong Bay. We took the easy route and booked to do a tour. It was still cheap and everything was paid for. It was a 3 and a half hour bus ride from Hanoi to Halong Bay on the coast. It was raining and miserable but the scenery made up for this. We arrived at the port to board our Junk Boat, as they call them. Not junk though, actually very nice wooden style boats that are 3 levels. The other people on the boat consisted of more Aussies, Kiwi's, American's, Germans, 2 Danish and a guy from Iceland. We were treated to a typical lunch then shown to our cabins which were small but comfortable. Once the rain had stopped we made our way to the top deck to
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