Fore-Tracks

Halong Bay is Bay off Northern Vietnam. About a 3 and half hour drive from Hanoi.
It is unique in that there are around 1100 small islands of various shapes and sizes jutting out of the water.
It was cloudy anf foggy so we didn’t have the greatest of visibility, but it was definitely otherworldly.
We were on a small cruise ship (it held 50 people) for a 24 hour trip, roughly noon to noon the next day.
We started by sailing out into the bay and stopped at a floating village.  Houses were little squares on pontoons.
They group side by side to form a village.  They farm oysters to sell to the tourists and have their kids row
the tourists around one of the islands.  Most of the rowers were what looked like teen aged girls.
We started the second day by walking through a cave.  It was very cavish.  For the most part the rest of that day
was a waste.  After the cave we just sailed back to the starting point.  Drove the 3 and a half hours back to
the airport in Hanoi and had a flight to Siem Reap Cambodia.