For the past two days I've been sailing around Halong Bay. There were 16 of us on the boat. A big group of yoga practicing vegetarians from Singapore, a miserable sour faced Czech couple and their very ginger son, a nice Israeli couple on their honeymoon and 3 scrawny white pre-pubescent 18 year olds from England on a gap year.
Halong Bay is beautiful. Luckily we had blue skies the first day, although it was much colder than I'd anticipated . Probably around 18-20 degrees. We sailed for a few hours before stopping for some kayaking. I shared a boat with one of the English lads called Luke who was nice enough, but kept talking about how he wasn't used to fending for himself and doing things such as buying food...🙄
In the evening we all had dinner then the guide switched on the karaoke machine. As if that was ever gonna happen with this bunch of boring bastards! I was hoping for a better group of people, and kept looking enviously at the party boat parked nearby with music blaring and people having fun. Instead I sat on the top deck and read my book while the youths played cards, the newly weds disappeared to their room for some honeymoon sex, and the health conscious vegetarian yoga nuts smoked fags outside, the irony clearly lost on them. God I wished I had wifi so badly!
I went to bed fairly early as there was bugger all else to do and they had us up at 7 for breakfast the next day. After that we sailed to the Surprise Cave which was huge, and really impressive. We also had a 'cooking class' on board. I use the term lightly as it was a bowl of pre-prepares filling which we got to roll in rice paper. Then it was the gruelling 4 hour journey back to Hanoi.
Tonight I went out for some pizza as I was sick of pork and noodles. Then I went to see a Water Puppet show. I didn't really understand what it was before I went if I'm honest, but it's a traditional art here so thought I'd check it out. I guess the clue is in the name really! Lots of puppets acting out typical Vietnamese traditions/legends. It was rather amusing, and quite clever. It was also something different to do besides sit in the pub.
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