The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. (Yes, I know that was last week’s theme – but we decided to do a V2) Most tourists, when they go to Vietnam, will be offered a cruise on Halong Bay. So, what’s in store? Well, when we did a two-day cruise, we…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. For an ostensibly communist country, Vietnam is a remarkably capitalist society. In fact, it is officially “a market economy with a socialist orientation” … but on-the-ground, that means little. This woman, selling seafood off a boat in Halong Bay it s a…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. I’ve mentioned Halong Bay before – and this image comes from there: it’s a sunset, as we cruised the bay in January 2016. HaLong literally means “descending dragon” … the legend is that as a giant dragon landed, it gouged out valleys and gashes…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. Our first in this series comes from Halong Bay – and it’s a flotilla of kayaks, just waiting for tourists to go paddling. The karsts (or limestone outcrops) of Halong Bay are fascinating – and for many, the best way to explore…
The theme for our travel pics this week is N for Night Scenes. Vietnam’s Halong Bay is, as we’ve mentioned before, a truly magical spot. And that magic doesn’t disappear as the sun goes down. We, as you can see, were anchored fairly close to a number of other boats in the bay – but…
We’ve just spent a couple of days cruising in Vietnam’s Halong Bay, on board a boat with about a dozen cabins and a mixed group of passengers from the four corners of the earth. When I think of cruising, I normally think of a large(ish) ship, crossing oceans and visiting far flung places. But the…
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