Vietnam for Christmas! Day 7 - Ha Long Bay

If you've been following along, you might noticed that I skipped Day 6. That was basically a transit day. We had an early afternoon flight from Da Nang to Haiphong via propeller plane. Then it was a three hour drive (because our driver wouldn't go faster than 40km/h) to our hotel in Ha Long City. We had a disappointing dinner at the hotel and went to bed early. Not worth a whole post. Ha Long Bay, however...

Karsts in the mist.

We were so cold we bought knit gloves from a street vendor. I'm sure we got ripped off but for $5 a pair we weren't going to complain.

We're such wimps.

I think I'll let the picture do the talking for this one...

Fruit market that comes to you.

Fishing village.

One of the big karsts.

View from half-way up Ti Top Island.

Inside Surprise cave.

View from the exit of Surprise cave.

Under one of the karsts.