Halong Bay - 29.08 - 02.09.2012

today is tuesday the 4th of september and i am back at ho chi minh city.
The last time i wrote was in Hue, but i couldnt upload my text, because the browser in this hotel was to old and could not load the blogger page. Last week i was worried, because my friend was disappeared, but he finally came back, which means we were in Ha long after that in the north of vietnam.
We had booked a tour  so we drove through ha long with this ship and stayed on the boat for the night.
Lunch, dinner and breakfast on the next day was included and also the visit to a cave in one of these rocks.
Also included was kayaking for about 30 minutes. All in all it was fun, but way to expensive.
To book a tour is really not necessary. It s better to ask some of the ships in the harbour whether they take you with them for a day or something and then drop you on one of the islands.
So here are some pictures of the ha long bay:

 

On our second day at ha long they dropped me and my friend at cat ba island where we stayed for about two days. Here also some picture of this island

the harbour and me

the harbour without me (the small houses on the water are restaurants i think)

one of the many small beaches - very calm

 On our second day at cat ba we rented a kajak for about 200 000 dong for the whole day, and then went to monkey island and some small beautiful beaches where there were no tourists. Unfortunately i couldnt take any pictures because i didnt have my camera with me on that day , because i was afraid it could fall into the water or get wet.