On the 3th we arrived early in the morning in Hanoi, arround 6 am. We watched a wghole lot of people excersise in the morning arround Hoam Kiem Lake, very funny. Then a cup of coffee, and off to the trainstation to buy train tickets to Hue for the 4th. Then took a bus to Hai Phong were we arrived 12 am. There we took a ferry to Cat Ba island, in the Halong Bay.

Halong Bay is a beautifull bay, with islands of lime stone. We stayed on Cat Ba island one night. First day a round trip on a moto. Then we booked a trip for the next day thru Halong Bay. We had dinner on a restaurant in the middle of the harbour, we had to go there with a boat. The meal was still swimming in the nets under the boat, you can pick what you want to eat, right out of the sea! Had a beer later in a bar owned by a new zealander, The Flightless Bird. The next day we left on a private boat, thru Halong Bay, visited a stupid monkey island, snorkeled in the coral, visited a cave and boated to Halong City were we took a bus back to Hanoi. This was the most craziest busride in my life. The bus was completely full so we had to keep the bags on our lap. The driver drove like crazy (the other road users as well) and we saw one accident, and were this close to being in one. Then, half way we stopped somewere, and everybody had to get out of the bus. The driver and two men started to unload a HUGE ammount of plastic bags with clothes or something. This was a normal mass transit bus! Imagine having this in Holland…. We arrived arround 19.00 in Hanoi, had dinner and went back to the station to take the night train leaving at 23.00 to Hue, a 11 hour trip.