Who's that pervert with the camera? He's put me right off.

Oooh, Halong Bay was lovely. We did a 3 day/2night thing, were we got to sleep on a boat, which was quite soothing and not as sea-sick inducing as I thought. We got to see Surprising Cave (use your imagination!), there was a spot of kayaking around the sheltered bay where we had harboured and some jumping off the boat into the sea. On the second day we left our boat and went on a trek through Cat Ba Island with our guide Tuan, and two Canadian girls. We me this lovely 68 year old lady who lived on the island with her 70 year old husband (who had left to row 4 hours to the nearest village). She made us some tea and little bananas. Then Tuan showed me a jar which reeked of alcohol with 2 or 3 snakes – dead ones – coiled at the bottom. The converstation went like this:

Me — "What's that for Tuan?"
Tuan — "It's Snake Wine. It make the man strong. That make the lady happy!"
Me — "Oh, that's nice. Not much to do around here I suppose."
Tuan — "Yes, it gets dark at 6pm here. So they go to bed."
Me — "OK…"
Tuan — "Maybe not to sleep though."
Me — "How old are they again?"
Tuan — "The lady 68, the man 70."
Me — "Fair play."

So after that we had seen some frogs having sex, then some cuttle fish having sex, then the old couple having sex… no, only messing. Halong Bay was very sexy. We had a massive lunch and then headed off to our 3 star hotel, in our 5 star boat, then left the next day in a 5 star bus for another 5 star boat and then back in another 5 star bus back to Hanoi. Stars!

Check out the photos on Flickr and lemme know what you think.