Halong Bay and Cat Ba Island
July 14th 2009 On Monday we got a minibus to Halong City on the north east coast of Vietnam where we would spend a night before heading out to Cat Ba Island, through Halong Bay. Halong City itself is not a particularly nice city and merely serves as a stop off point and base camp for any day tours through the bay and the various islands in it. We arrived in Halong City at around midday and had a very nice simple
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