From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
“Ha Long Bay (Vietnamese: About this sound Vịnh Hạ Long (help·info), literally: “descending dragon bay”; 下龍灣) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular travel destination, located in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay belongs to Hạ Long City, Cẩm Phả town, and part of Van Don district. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. Hạ Long Bay is a center of a larger zone which includes Bái Tử Long bay to the northeast, and Cát Bà islands to the southwest. These larger zones share similar geological, geographical, geomorphological, climate, and cultural characters.”
Okay, nuff with the words, here are Sj’s pictures . . .
Enjoy!
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| She was working! And not just at rowing. |
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| Floating village. |
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| It often felt like they were driving these things for the first time! |
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| They passed that baby along like a sack of potatoes! lol And the kid seems just fine with it. Nice. ; ) |
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| We didn’t have a lot of sun . . . but for this instance we did! |
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| Another working gal. Only saw women drivers. |
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| Had 30-minutes at this man-made beach, made a running dash up the hill. That’s the boat I stayed on. |
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| Nice Danish family hanging out while it rained. |
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| Going on a tour of the “floating village.” |
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| Driver in training. |
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| Ma chambre. See my bat/angel? |
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| Pretty sunset one of the 2-nights that I was on the boat. |
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| The moon! |
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| The ubiquitous flag in Vietnam. |
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| These kids from New Zealand were having fun; he’s teaching her how to fold the napkin. How’d he learn? A Vietnamese worker on the ship showed him one rainy afternoon. |
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| In front: my new gal pals from London, Emma and Jane. Had dinner with them one night in Hoi An. In back: Nat and Gerry. Was supposed to have dinner with them one night in Hanoi, but I went to the wrong restaurant! But, I just happened to run into them the next day while passing the church shown above . . . yep, keep loving those “coincidences”! |
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| Ze “floating village.” |
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| Ditto. |
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| Pretty cool. |
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| Well protected. |
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| He’s taking a shot of the school. |
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| See? |
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| They seemed happy as they looked my way. |
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| Back at the industrial harbor. |
Aloha Ha Long Bay!
Hope it brought back good memories Larry!
So long from the Hanoi airport enroute to Bangkok.
Sending love to all of you wherever you may be.
-sj
* and Kay!
