The last of our Southeast Asian travels (for now) consisted of northern Vietnam. Or more precisely Tam Coc (near Ninh Binh), the Cat Ba Island with Lan Ha Bay and Halong Bay and lastly Hanoi - the capital of Vietnam.
Tam Coc is often referred to as "Halong Bay on land", and that actually describes it pretty well. There's a beautiful lanscape of lush, green ricefields and huge limestone cliffs that just seem to rise randomly up from the earth.
After seeing the cliffs on land, we moved on to see them in the sea. From Cat Ba island we took a boat tour and went cruising on beautiful Lan Ha Bay. While the cliffs had been beautiful on land, they were even more majestic in the sea.
Included in our boat tour was a kayaking trip through some caves and lagoons on Halong Bay. Both Halong and Lan ha bay are practically the same, but since they belong to two different vietnamese provinces they have two different names.
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Before catchig a flight out of Vietnam, we still had one day to explore Hanoi (we would have had more days if we hadn't been sick). Here's some of our highlights:
The old quarters with a lot of nice shops and restaurants:
Coffee with whipped eggwhite on top (tasted like italian marengue, really yummy!):
Worlds cheapest beer: Bia Hoi - daily brewed fresh draft beer. we payed only 2500 dong per glass, which means 0,10 €.
That's it! Now we say goodbye to Southeast Asia for a while! Maybe we'll see you again in a few months!
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