During my trip to the north of vietnam, I met a number of people who suggested that I go to cat ba island instead of a tour of halong bay and I am very glad I took their advice.
On Wednesday I took the bus to the ferry port in halong city where all the halong bay tours start. I was not officially on a tour because I was just using the boat as a means of transport to get to cat ba but I'm glad I wasn't on a tour because everything seemed very unorganised, we were moved to three different boats, the crew and staff were very unfriendly and the boats were not in a good condition. Once we got off the boat we were driven to cat ba town and found a good cheap hostel.
The weather has been a little overcast and chilly so thursday was spent exploring the town, beaches and sussing out a good tour company to go kayaking and climbing with.
I booked a full day tour with asia outdoors and had the best day on friday! The sun finally came out and we had a great group on the boat. The instructors were all native english speakers which made such a difference and they were all very professional. We set off at 8.30 to a small harbour and cruised for fifteen minutes through the floating fishing villages and started to our 3 hour kayak. We went into lagoons and through the rocks and once we were back on the boat we had a delicious lunch. We didn't have a lot of time to relax before we were off climbing in the afternoon. We got a small boat to moody beach and the instructors set up six climbs on the rock face for us to try. They gave us a very good briefing and everyone managed most of the climbs except the overhang at the end!
We all went out for dinner once we got back and I slept like a log!
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| Floating villages |
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| Kayaking team in the lagoon, we had to come through that small entrance in the background |
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| Two of the instructors setting up |
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| A beautiful way to finish off a great day |
The weather has been a little overcast and chilly so thursday was spent exploring the town, beaches and sussing out a good tour company to go kayaking and climbing with.
I booked a full day tour with asia outdoors and had the best day on friday! The sun finally came out and we had a great group on the boat. The instructors were all native english speakers which made such a difference and they were all very professional. We set off at 8.30 to a small harbour and cruised for fifteen minutes through the floating fishing villages and started to our 3 hour kayak. We went into lagoons and through the rocks and once we were back on the boat we had a delicious lunch. We didn't have a lot of time to relax before we were off climbing in the afternoon. We got a small boat to moody beach and the instructors set up six climbs on the rock face for us to try. They gave us a very good briefing and everyone managed most of the climbs except the overhang at the end!
Hallo Felicity, als wir vor einem Jahr dort waren, tobte gerade der Taifun Haiyan über der wunderschönen Bucht.
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Hallo michael und ilona!
DeleteEs ist super zu hören, dass ihr meinen blog liest. Cat ba war sehr schön. Ich bin jetzt in luang prabang und es gefällt mir.
Ich hoffe, alles lauft gut in prenzlau. Ich werde versuchen, ein bisschen sonne hinzuschicken. :-)
Great pics. Climbing and kayaking look great fun xx
ReplyDeleteHi dad! It was great fun! Had sore arms the next day though even though I tried to use my legs. Xox
DeleteIch bin sooo neidisch. Ich wünschte ich wäre auch dort...
ReplyDeleteDas wünsche ich auch mein schatz ;-) ich freue mich auf unser abenteuer in myanmar
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