Food Glorious Food - Hanoi Day 3

Woke up early this morning and had breakfast in the hotel. Then a van came to pick us up for our trip to Halong Bay (awarded the status of world heritage site by Unesco), 170km away. Our hotel was the first stop and the next 30 mins or so was spent picking up passengers from their respective hotels in and around the Old Quarters. The van stopped by a beautiful street – Church Street and Koh immediately got down to take a few shots of the area.

Arrived at our destination approximately 2.5 hours later. The place was packed with people. Everyone was waiting to board the boats. Unfortunately the weather was not favourable as it was drizzling throughout the entire trip.

It was quite a task just getting onto our boat. We had to climb and walk through a few boats that were parked near the bank before we finally found ours.

It was such a shame that there was a thick mist throughout boat ride. We couldn’t see much of anything. We had our lunch on board the boat. Koh and I shared a table with 2 students from Denmark - Malte and Rasmus. They were on a 3-4 month trip to parts of SEAsia. Prior to Hanoi, they had already gone to Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. And after Hanoi, they would be visiting Malaysia and Spore before boarding a plane back to Denmark from Thailand. Lucky blokes.

We had the opportunity to explore a limestone cave – much like Batu Caves back home.

Reached the hotel pretty late in the evening and we were totally worn out from the journey. Decided to have a quick dinner and hit the sack.