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March 21, 2007
Cat Ba Island
We are currently on Cat Ba Island, an Island in Halong Bay. We arrived here on Monday evening after a long boat trip from Halong City.
We stopped a couple of times on the way, once to see a massive cave on one of the islands. It was very impressive but you could see a lot had been ruined in order to put a path and lights in for tourists.
We stopped again in the middle of a load of little islands, where a guy from the fish farm came over towing loads of double kayaks. They then said anyone who wanted to could go off kayaking for an hour. No buoyancy Aads, no instruction, no guide, just go where you want and be back in an hour. Of course me and Joe took full advantage of this and went off to explore. It was amazing to explore around all of the islands and into the little caves and lagoons.
Eventually we reached Cat Ba town which, although is in the middle of this amazing place, looks a bit like Blackpool. At night there are thousands of flashing lights along the sea front. Why do they do that?
Posted by admins at March 21, 2007 5:27 AM