Book+Boat+Halong Bay = future retirement plan

Book+Boat+Halong Bay = future retirement plan, originally uploaded by jonolist.

just got back from a nights stay at a touristboat/fakelookingjunk at Halong Bay. The beaches there are overrated and there's no bia hoi but the view alone makes up for it. And if not for the rainy weather at night you could catch a fantastic night sky like we did for one to two hours. Plans to sleep on deck were then dashed by the rain...sigh..

Ignore the kwai lo's around you (but some are fun to hang lah) and just imagine yourself in the very protected calm waters of halong bay, book at hand, cool breeze and the fantastic rock formations/islands around you. Exploring the cool (literally natural aircon cool kinda cool) caves and then sharing weird vietnamese rice wine (40% straight up..woot!) with a bunch of isrealis, germans, dunnowheres and yoruself. It starts to feel pretty surreal.

i can so add this to my ultimate retirement scheme of things, especially the book/boat/(if only they had wireless)laptop.

So after a morning session kayaking, we head back to a uncomfortable 3 hour ride back to Hanoi, wash up and catch an overnight train to Hue, yes no shite boat then lousy bus then hopefully a good train ride to the next destination.