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Hello!!!! And Merry Christmas to everyone. Just spending Christmas in Halong Bay! So I arrived to Vietnam a few days ago, the 20thto be exact. I took a flight from Vientiane, Laos to Hanoi. The airportin Vientiane has to be the smallest airport in a capital city anywhere!There were only 5 flights in and out all day long!!!! Anyway the flightwas uneventful...thank goodness. And I arrived safetly at the airport.I had booked my tickets with two other Britts who I had been travelingwith for a few days in Laos...so we took a taxi into the city. But thenwe went our seperate ways. I went to a guest house and checked in.Hanoi at first glance was nice....I thought I could live there...butafter spending the next day walking around all day long, I wasexhausted of navigating through the crowded streets, exhausted ofhearing the never ending horns blaring in my ears, and scared to deaththat I would be knocked over by one of the motor bikes as it sailedpast me! But other than the mere commotion that happens all the timethere, it is a nice city. But I definately had to mentally prepairmyself while on the plane to get ready to be ripped off or haggled ateverystep of the way now that I am in Vietnam, as oppossed to clam andquite Laos.The first night I was in Hanoi I went to a water puppet show. It wasamazing! It was funny since the puppets immitate daily life, and theysay that thousands of years ago this ancient form of entertainment wasinvented in the rice fields. I thought of this as the puppets weremoving in the water, and it was hillarious! The way that they move andare coordinated with the other puppets it was amazing. A nice site tosee in Hanoi.Yesterday I took a (unfortunatley a small tour group) bus out toHalong Bay. Everyone said to take a small tour since it will cost aboutthe same and the hassle can be massive it you try to organize and hirea boat by yourself once you get out here. But the "tour" hasn't beenthat great so far, especially for what I paid for it! We got a bus outhere yesterday. Then we got on a boat. We sailed through Halong Bay. Itwas a beautiful day yesterday, sunny and blue skies, so it was nice tosit up on top of the boat on the deck and just watch all the smallmountains pass by as we sailed along. The Bay was beautiful. We entereda cave, it was huge...nothing like the small cave I entered inThailand...this one was completely lit, lit even with colored lights!Nothing to be sweating over here. We got back on the boat and sailedaround some more. One hour of kayaking was suppossed to be included inthe package deal, but there were only two inflatable kayaks on boardour boat. So the guide stopped the big boat and four people at a timecould "kayak" around a rock and back. There was only one paddle foreach kayak so controlling the kayak was incredibly difficult! But itwas nice to do, since there was almost a full moon starting to rise andit lit the bay. Then we slept on the boat last night. This morning we arrived to Cat Ba Island. Some people from our groupstayed on the boat to return back to Hanoi, they only booked a one daytour. But some of us continued on to check into our hotel for tonight.Then we headed out for a short hike. The hike itself was good, but thecompany was better, hillarious in fact! Three Australian girls returnedback to the road after hiking for about 10 minutes, granted one waspretty sick. (Uh oh...guess the rest of this got cut off...I'll try toremember my train of thought!) Anyways, the guide left one girl to hikeon her own...she ended up freaking out and screaming until we went toher rescue...don't blame her, I think I would have freaked out too, ifI thught the guide sent me on my way to find my way back to the bus!Spent the rest of the day just wondering around...not much to do on theisland, and the weather wasn't the greatest. The next morning, Christmas moring we boarded our boat again, thistime it was only me and two other people who had been with me the wholetime on the boat. We pulled away from the dock and started sailingout...but 10 minutes later the captain got a call on his cell phone andwe headed back to the dock to wait 30 more minutes for about 10 morepeople to come aboard. Same thing happened again once we got off theboat and back onto the bus....had been driving for 20 min and had toturn around to go back to pick up more passengers! Lesson from this...I thought I paid a fair amount of money for thistour, but afterwards, having spoken with many other people, it turnsout they paid much more for a different and better tour...so I guessthe quality just all depends on how much money you fork out...guess Ididn't pay enough!Posted by annawojo on December 24, 2007 02:00 PM Read more to have more information about tours on Halong bayIf you are interested in cruise on Halong bay, click here to experience Article Tags: Merry Christmas