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The author memorized his trip in HaLong bay and Catba island when he’s in Vang Vieng, Laos. He described briefly in this entry.

Friday 5 October 2007

Scenery in Catba

Sa-bai dee

After our night in Hanoi we went to Ha Long bay and Cat Ba island close by. We spent the day on a boat tour and went kayaking around the islands which were stunning. Kayaking was so much fun but got progressively harder due to the numerous water fights flooding our little kayak. We paddled under a small gap in a rock into a huge circle of rock which echoed all of our crazy shouting. We had a sea food BBQ on a little deserted beach which was once again incredible, I have had loads of really good fish, I think I might be over my fish fad Mum n Dad!

The next morn we went back to Hanoi and met up with the new group members for the Laos part of the trip and left that afternoon earlier than planned due to a storm coming in, which was fruitless as we ended up being at the Laos border crossing which happened to be a small building at the top of a huge mountain in the middle of the storm! We got drenched as we were actually in the clouds - they were rolling off the mountains all around us.
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