I am sure you will be happy to know we survived our overnight train trip. We spent much of the night drinking passion fruit mojitos, gin and tonics and dancing in the halls of the train (okay, Julie was dancing).
We had a quick breakfast and changed and went on a 4 hour bus ride to Ha Long Bay. This was our third UNESCO world heritage site in three days. I have a bunch of pictures of the bay. It is a fabulous bay, filled with 2000 limestone mountains jutting dramatically out of the bay. I have read and believe that the bay was the inspiration for the floating islands on the movie Avatar.
We spent the night on the boat singing karaoke (okay, Julie and all the other extroverts sang). She did a great job singing "Do the Locomotion."
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| Our cruising boat and hotel for the night. One of 500 on the bay |
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| A couple of the 2000 islands on the bay |
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| Several more of the islands |
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| What a place to have morning coffee |
After returning from the cruise and riding the bus back to Hanoi, next on the agenda was the Hanoi Hilton. For those of you over 50 or history buffs, you will recognize this as the prison where American POW's, including John McCain, were tortured and imprisoned during the Vietnam.
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| Artifacts from some of the 700 US POW's at the prison |
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