Ha long baby.

Ride and shine.
Night on the boat was grand. They mentioned there was going to be karaoke on the top deck until 11pm. Lucky for them, I had to put buggy down, haha, so in turn, lucky us because we didn't hear a thing!

The day started early. Massive continental breakfast served at 645am! The breakfast was a bit better to manage with buggy. We could pick and choose what we wanted and enjoyed the spread of fruits and eggs. The usual dishes served on the side here in Vietnam, which is pho, fried rice, fried noodles, and stir-fried veges.

After breakfast, it was hop to it and get ready to go on the bamboo boat through the cave.
We all jumped on the auxiliary vessels and headed to the port to meet our local guide for the bamboo boat. People also could choose from kayaking. I obviously wasn't going to risk a capsize with buggy when there were heaps of people kayaking in all different directions. Some are very coordinated at all!!

These guys are very skilled at getting these bamboo boats to even move at all. Buggy and I tried to have a go, but it felt like we had chopsticks for oars and no coordination!

Was an hour of fun. Then back to the boat. Get room ready and check out. I used the time to quickly out tyde down for a nap on the bed. Plan worked well as he woke up just before they came to see we had checked out! Love it when all goes to plan.

Another brunch and headed back into the harbour. We waited over an hour for our pick up but settled in for a smooth ride back to old quater in Hanoi.

Overall I do see the trip as worth it, however maybe slightly over priced. 215usd which was 385nzd. Don't think there will be a next time so I have concluded that for a once off it was OK. At the moment you can't put a price on being able to relax a little whilst buggy freely explores and uses his body.

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