We started out around 8:30 a.m. on a two-hour drive east of Hanoi to Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that sits in the northern part of the Gulf of Tonkin. The Bay is made up of over 1,900 islands, jungle-covered limestone formations – named karsts – that, in some cases, appear toContinue reading “Days 3 & 4 on Ha Long Bay”
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Day Two – Hanoi
A few little tidbits about Vietnam – it’s a country of 100m people, more than twice the population it was in 1975 at the end of the war. That means it’s pretty young, and the stat I’ve heard is that 65% of the population is younger than 35. So – for many of them, theContinue reading “Day Two – Hanoi”
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