KayakHalongBay.com  Halong Bay Travel, Tours and TraveloguesHa Long City Overview- July 30, 2008 If Halong Bay is heaven, Halong City can be hell. Overdeveloped but underloved, the hideous high-rise hotels come in every shade of pastel and the beaches are definitely not the best in the region. However, the majority of food, accommodation and other life-support systems for Halong Bay are found in Halong City. The capital of ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=296 Sleeping in Halong City- July 30, 2008 If you have any choice in the matter, stay on a boat in the bay rather than in a hotel in Halong City. The majority of visitors who do I stay here opt for Bai Chay. There are hundreds of hotels located here, and keen competition keeps prices down, especially if you can avoid the ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=295 Eating in Halong city- July 30, 2008 Minihotels aside, most hotels have restaurants. If you&8217;re in Halong City as part of a tour, the meals are usually included. Unsurprisingly, seafood is a serious feature of most menus. There are a couple of seafood strips in the centre of town, south of the post office along Halong Str. The strip nearest the post office ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=294 Getting There & Away and Getting Around- July 30, 2008 Getting There &38; Away BOAT With a marked improvement in road around the region, boat transport is not as popular as it once was, but the hydrofoil Mong Cai remains a good option for any overlanding to China. There are daily slow boats connecting Hon Gai with Haiphong (35,000d, three hours). Boats depart Hon Gai at 6.30am, 11am ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=293 Cat Ba Island- July 30, 2008 Rugged, craggy and jungle-clad Cat Ba, the largest island in Halong Bay, is straight out of Jurassic Park. Lan Ha Bay, off the eastern side of the island, is especially scenic and offer numerous beaches to explore. While the vast majority of Halong Bay&8217;s islands are uninhabited vertical rocks. Cat Ba has a few fishing ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=292 Bai Tu Long Bay- July 29, 2008 There&8217;s more to northeastern Vietnam than Halong Bay. The sinking limestone plateau which gave birth to the bay&8217;s spectacular islands, continues for some 100 km to the Chinese border. The area immediately north of Halong Bay is part of Bai Tu Long National Park (Tel: 793 365). Bai Tu Long Bay is every bit as beautiful ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=291 Halong Bay Boat Trip and Jelly fish.- July 15, 2008 An entry about a Ha Long Bay tour with a lot of interesting activities, especially sea kayaking. April 9th, 2008 Myself and Caroline had a trip booked to Halong Bay for two days and one night on a boat. The previous night we went to call for David and Teri in their hotel. David wanted to watch ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=284 Day Four Back Flips, Kayaks and Limestone Pillar Islands- July 15, 2008 This is an entry about Bens day trip to Halong Bay in his Vietnam travel. Feeling the peace of the bay, discovering the miraculous of it by kayaking! June 12th, 2007 Wed been drinking, Danny and I, perhaps a little too much to be jumping off Junk boats but man it was fun! Dannys all-American, Now thats ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=279 Cruising, Spelunking, Kayaking, Thunder and Lightening- July 14, 2008 Mary Jeane told her kayak tour in Halong bay with her Vietnamese foster-child. Halong Bay is the natural wonder in Vietnam. There are over 3000 limestone islands is this bay and it is absolutely spectacular. It doesn&8217;t seem to matter where we go on this earth . . . I am always amazed at the splendor ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=273 Trip To Vietnam- July 13, 2008 Julie and Andrew wrote about their travel to Vietnam. This is the entry about kayak in Halong bay. On June 30th, Andrew and I flew to Hanoi from Phnom Penh. We met up with our pal Jan Simon at the Hanoi airport on the 30th. Jan Simon finished working in Cambodia in May, and had been ...http://www.kayakhalongbay.com/?p=277 |