Saturday morning up bright and early as we were changing hotels (a good brisk walk at 6.50am.)Breakfast, then at 8.00am we were collected and taken to a bus for our Ha Long Bay experience!
We had booked to stay two nights and three days.
Unfortunatelly the whole operation has become a processing factory(of humans) people and Junks as far as the eye could see.
About 24 of us boarded the Dragon Pearl.(It didn't look anything like the glossy brochure!)
We were served lunch then off we chugged to our first stop the Monkey cave, then on again to do one hour Kyaking.The islands were stunning over 2000 of them.
We dropped anchor for the night off Cat Ba Island.We had a wonderful swim from the junk.Warm water.Then watched the sun set.
After dinner we sat out in the cool and chatted.
We woke to rain but off we went to the island to walk in the National park and climb up one of the hills.It was misty so looked amazing from the top.
We had booked to stay one night on an island in a bungalow with its own beach.Sounded too good to be true and it was!
We arrived at the island to be shown a grass hut with no fly screens, not what we had booked and paid for.Apparrently this happens a lot.A bit of a scam!We returned to Cat Ba and a hotel having negotiated a small refund.
Day three we spent returning to Ha Long Bay with many disgruntled travellers with their own tales to tell.
I still wouldn't have missed the experience.
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