Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 4:38 PM
Day 3 - Ha Long Bay; A night on junkboat
We stop by a kiln and pottery factory for toilet break and did some sauna-ing cus again, the heat was penetrating.
Their toilet is damn cartoon. It's like those in china. One side has door and the other side didn't have. Of cus we used the one with door though it's like still see-able if u wanna peek la.
Finally reached Ha Long City Harbour and that was our boat for the night.
Anyways, Humty Caryn had a great fall (DUN LAUGH HOR!!!). No kings horses and no king knights needed cus I'm still in one piece! Luckily for the rope in front of me else I would have hit the steps and into the sea!
All smiles but my wound was hurting quite badly from time to time.
Our room...damn nice i tell you. Each of us had a personal fan cus the aircon will only be on in the evening. Other than the heat and baby cockroaches, everything was good! But I still slept in caution, kinda afraid the cockroaches will lay eggs in my ear.
You know ar, nothing's better than opening ur room door and the big sea is shouting at you to enjoy it's breeze! Weilun even woke up the next morning, brush his teeth, open the door and jump into the sea for a swim right from the ledge. 
The different karst formations we see on our way to the cave.
I think this is one famous cave there but I forgot the name. Nth pretty amazing except for the natural cool air that cave possess. I would say that Gua Tempurung is way better than this. Maybe it's because the tour guide didn't explain well enough.
And then it was swimming time! All of us had a great deal of time in the water. We were all in life jackets cus buay zai la...dun wanna risk life. Only towards the end then threadwater but still I almost choke to death.
Bathed and slack on the deck. Weather wasnt that good for sunset and we tot we'd just wake up in time for sunrise but then again, it was very foggy.
We had dinner and chatted on the deck until everyone was sound asleep. I'm kinda missing that moment, where we just talk abt life and basically everything under the sun.
Day 4 - Kayaking in Lan Ha Bay; Lan Ha Bay to Cat Ba Island
Kayaking was damn shiok. 2 hours under the cloudy weather and seeing jellyfish swim beside ur kayak. We're simply inside nature!
The most happening thing that happened was this china couple's kayak capsizing. I saw how the kayak flipped and laughed. Sorry la but it was damn comical. I admit I'm bad to laugh but she 'kay kiang' ma so couldnt help it. I shared the kayak with Idy and we're the closest to them. Logically, we're suppose to save them but our swimming buay zai so if we also capsize then 'ho say' liao lor.
Weilun and Lixia's boat came in fast and tgt with this 2 British girls, they tried to help them drain the boat. Quite drama la cus our poor boy ended up falling and had lots of barnacles in his hand and a lil in his feet.
We ended up on a secluded beach for lunch. It was quite an experience because I never had meals this way.
Thereafter, we went cycling at Cat Ba National Park. 12km of cycling and many up and down slopes. The upslopes almost killed me! We cycled to a point where Lixia and I practicaly push the bike up.
Weilun hurt his hand so he rode the bike and we took turns to cycle. But hor, when he rode me, I kena all the straight road! So I went up whatever slopes u can find there la...super tiring!!!
This place is nice as in when you're surrounded by hills and water, u feel refreshed but the cycling part was crazy la!
On the way to Cat Ba Island...
We tried to look for a doctor because some stubborn barnacles are still stuck in lun's palm. The hotel recommended us Dr Uy. Lun insisted on going himself and the way he describe his experience was terrific! If only I was there, I would have taken a video.
Oh...the woman who cause lun's scar is the one on the bottom right side of the collage. HAHAHA!
We met this couple from Czech Republic and we became meal khakis. Really nice couple to talk to and they've work in Thailand for 2 years if i nvr rem wrongly.
Almost all of us during our last lunch tgt before we head back to Hanoi.
P/s: The china man gave Lun his namecard. He's working for Diapers in New York and written behind his namecard was "$10 off if you purchase from Diapers.com". Something along that line..I found it hilarious!
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