Ha Long Bay

For those of you who watched 'that top gear episode' ha long bay is where they turned their bikes into boats, basicaly loads of rocky islands just off the coast. The only real way to get there is as a day trip from hanoi so we returned from sapa and booked ourselves onto the next 3 day tour of ha long bay. While the food was a tad repetetive the trip turned out to be really good fun with some other fun backpackers to drink with and to joke with. On the second evening we found some guy on the street selling homebrew beer for 5,000 dong a glass, that might sound a lot, but it is actualy about 15p!
For those readers who came with us to europe last summer, Tom and I made and enemy in Ha long bay. We met the campest german man I have ever seen, he was from munich and on hearing we enjoyed the hoffbrauerhaus he declared 'it is smelly and dirty, and I dont even like the decor, its not even that traditional ya', a quote tom and I have been having endless fun repeating.
Next onto the ancient city of Hue..
Alex