Halong Bay

10/15/2006-10/17/2006


We spent 3 days of our stay in Vietnam in Halong Bay, which is a beautiful bay with some incredible scenery. This picture is of our beach camp where we learned how to do some sea kayaking. I have a rough life. It was pretty fun to kayak around the huge bay and see all of the massive kaarsts, which are limestone rock formations all over the water as can be seen in the following photo, which also has the boat on which we stayed for 2 nights and 3 days.


Living on the boat for a couple days was pretty fun. The boat had three levels, so jumping off the top and doing flips gave me a nice adrenaline rush. At night all the boats in the area would come together to make a circle. There were police boats in this area, and the overall purpose was to minimize the possibility of pirates coming aboard and stealing our stuff. It worked well, but I can't say that I saw any pirates. We also got to kayak through some caves that were only accessible at certain times of the day due to water levels. Here is a picture from the entrance/exit of one of them.