• Ha long Bay

    Oct 24–26, 2024 in Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    We made it to Ha long Bay and we're surprised by a Ghost town. We heard Ha long Bay was hit by Typhoon Yagi and still saw trees and damaged shops but we were surprised how empty everything was. No tourists, no restaurants, a lot of hotels just being completely empty. But my mood was bad anyway so we just stayed in and took in the view from the Hostel over the Bay. For the next day we booked a cruise to explore the Bay which I was afraid of it being super touristy. In the end it was alright. The Bay is very beautiful and one of the nature world wonders but the water was quite dirty from all of the boats.
    At night I catched a beautiful sunset over the Harbour and parts of the bay before taking another night bus.
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