Saturday 24 July 2010

SKETCH OF NORTH INDOCHINA- Day 5: 100327- Halong Bay, Hanoi, Lao Cai

Night at Junk is nice. It is not what we think earlier that will shake here and there. All of us sleep so sweet that day. After nice French toast breakfast, we carry by a small sampan to visit the a nice and peaceful lagoon. The lagoon exit is a cave that only can go through by sampan during low tide. Due to the conservation of the natural, only small sampan without motor is allow to enter.

After past through the Luon Cave, the inner side is small lagoon with monkeys habitats on it. The water is greenish blue. The stone around the lagoon is clearly seen the sea level during high tide. It is 4 foot height from what we see now. After round the lagoon, we back to Huong Hai Junk and continue our gila group photo session. The GuiLin on the Sea is only part of the scene because mostly all concentrate into group and portrait photo.

The enjoyment on the sea end after the lunch. Hence we continue our journey to Hanoi for shopping while waiting for the Sapa train departure on 9.10pm. During the shopping time, me, KK and Sam is separate from the group for drinking in local style. The “pub” in Hanoi is fully open air, no decoration but they enjoy so much the good time in drinking with friends. Each of us drink 2 big bottle of Tiger Beer and 2 big glass of the draft beer(no indicate the beer manufacture on the container). The local draft is a bit bitter but is nice to eat with local tidbits like local ham, pork minch meat and seed cracker.

Dinner is nice Hanoi ChaKa or fried fish. I like the nice fragrance vege laminate under the pan. After nice food, we depart from haoi for LaoCai on sleep deck train. The deck we book is very big, due to 8 girls occupied 2 room, 2 guys is sharing with s Aussie womans. This deck of train is occupied by foreigners, hence we don’t need to face the bad habits of the local people on the train.(sorry for Vietnamese who read this travelogue).

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