Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008

Ha Long Bay is incredible. The mythology surrounding the Karst islands is that a dragon descended into the bay and remains on earth to protect the harbor and the Northern Vietnamese people. Therefore, the islands represent the half-submerged body of the dragon (it's a big one I suppose).

The trip was magnificent. Cydney and Justin, and I chartered a private boat to discover, on our own time, private and beautiful areas of Ha Long Bay. We kayaked through a huge tunnel cave which opened to a secluded lagoon connected to another, but shorter, water-cave-tunnel. We explored the tributaries and the beaches.

There really is nothing to compare with riding on the upper sun deck of a boat into the sunset.