Eli and I left Hanoi on Monday morning for the 3 hour car ride to Halong City to pick up the boat for our Halong Cruise. During the ride, you pass by modern day Vietnamese French-style terrace townhouses, rows of one-story storefronts/restaurants that line the streets, factories with parking lots jammed with motorbikes, rice paddies, lotus flowers, cemeteries.
Halong Bay is a magical place where time seems to stop. Watch the movie Indochine and you will get a glimpse of the beauty and exotic nature of this place. Tour the bay on a modern-day Chinese junk (an exquisite wooden boat) and time seems to stop. Our boat was Halong Jasmine,
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