Sunday, August 5, 2012

Day 51: Ha Long Bay Back to Hanoi to Hoi An


-The next morning we left for another long boat ride back to Ha Long City port. It really is incredible to look at all the rock formations in the bay.. There were two Dutch guys on the boat and there was a rumor going around that they had mistakenly joined the party boat and had wanted to study the geology of the bay. Turns out they knew it was the party boat and had just studied the bay in a geology class. They tried briefly to explain it but in broken English it was no easy feat.


-Once back in the bay, and after our lunch at 10:30am, we started the four-hour bus ride back to Hanoi. One of the guys on the bus was so hungover that we had to pull over suddenly so he could be sick. The poor guy was deathly pale when he got back on the bus, to an applause from everyone else.


-We didn’t even have time to shower when we got back because we were straight off to the bus station for our 18-hour sleeper bus to Hoi An. Luckily the bus was set up a little like mini bunk beds where you could lay down. Unluckily they were designed for small Asians so we didn’t fit too well. It was bumpy ride full of rude bus staff and random stops in the night but it could have been much worse.

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