Halong? Not long enough.
After 2 fun days in Hanoi and then two very long days in Hanoi, I decided that it was time to flee the city. After Laos, I found cities a little too-much. I miss Laos. In Laos you don't have to worry about, well, anything (minus finding late night food). In Vietnam, you have to worry about being mowed down while crossing the road, being swindeled, being pickpocketed, the fucking bird flu... and, well, the list goes on. So, while Vietnam provides the excitement not always available in Laos, Vietnam also provides ample amounts of stress. Insert image of random American girl having a breakdown in a photo shop after being pickpocketed and then sitting down on the floor and crying. Can you picture it? This is why I needed to leave the city.
Now, insert image of wonderful, scenic, relaxing Halong Bay. Lots of water and mountains and beer and people on boats. That's Halong Bay. The computers in Vietnam aren't being all that co-operative, so real pics may never actually appear on my blog, leaving it all to the imagination and / or a google search.
Point is, I loved every single minute in Halong Bay, with exception of a really uncool cave (which I won't go into detail about -- ask me later). It was just so breath-of-fresh-air. I have met some of the coolest people in the world and I met up with Jay, one of the coolest former ESL teachers from the Bon in Korea. So, life is good.
Halong had a lot of tourists. I mean a lot (and, okay for the record, that is why the cave sucked so badly). But, we got to go on this boat and just sort of ignore the world.
As lippy as I may be, I don't know if I can put Halong Bay into words. I was just three days that made me feel like the fact that I'm running out of money and have million things to do in order to be in Australia for Sarah's wedding in early January isn't that big of a deal. Things just seem to work themselves out. And, that's good, because after Halong we have a full day (that would be 24 hours) of bus travel to reach our next destination, Hoi An... a.k.a. the land of cheap tailors.
Now, insert image of wonderful, scenic, relaxing Halong Bay. Lots of water and mountains and beer and people on boats. That's Halong Bay. The computers in Vietnam aren't being all that co-operative, so real pics may never actually appear on my blog, leaving it all to the imagination and / or a google search.
Point is, I loved every single minute in Halong Bay, with exception of a really uncool cave (which I won't go into detail about -- ask me later). It was just so breath-of-fresh-air. I have met some of the coolest people in the world and I met up with Jay, one of the coolest former ESL teachers from the Bon in Korea. So, life is good.
Halong had a lot of tourists. I mean a lot (and, okay for the record, that is why the cave sucked so badly). But, we got to go on this boat and just sort of ignore the world.
As lippy as I may be, I don't know if I can put Halong Bay into words. I was just three days that made me feel like the fact that I'm running out of money and have million things to do in order to be in Australia for Sarah's wedding in early January isn't that big of a deal. Things just seem to work themselves out. And, that's good, because after Halong we have a full day (that would be 24 hours) of bus travel to reach our next destination, Hoi An... a.k.a. the land of cheap tailors.
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