Day 295: Lan Ha Bay

Top 10 Day of Gap Year for sure!

Woke up for breakfast (more pho) and the bus picked us up at 11:30am so a nice relaxing morning. We arrive to the pier and are placed on a tiny boat with a French couple Mattias and Cami. Our little cruise boat is max 16 people!

We start with a lunch while the boat cruises through Lan Ha Bay. We learn Mattias and Cami are only traveling in Asia for 6 months and are teachers back home. They were also just in the Philippines!

After lunch, we lounged upstairs until the boat arrives to a place to kayak! There were caves with bats and the mountains had sheer faces. The best part was kayaking into cave and coming out to secret coves on the other side.

After kayaking, the cruise opened happy hour and found a swimming spot where people could jump of the boat. Our tour guide started swimming with a bucket so we followed him. Ends up we could go hunting for clams!!!! We dug into the sand and found so many; Cami and Mattias joined us and the other folks on our boat came along. 8 in total digging for clams!

We get back to the boat and learn how to make spring rolls. While cooking, the chefs made our actual dinner. We sit at a table with Cami, Mattias, and two Germans Barbara and Max who work for Audi. It was so nice to be surrounded by fellow travelers who appreciate sarcasm and discussing life back home!

After dinner we fished for squid. Didn’t catch any but the little girl on our boat and Cami each caught one.

Major thanks to Mattias for sharing his drone footage.

Food:
Squid

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