Our team adventure to Halong Bay - one of Vietnam's most recognized travel destination ended up being very relaxing. The 1 1/2hr bus ride gave us another opportunity to witness the contracts rapidly developing growth market. We saw traditional style markets / farmers working in rice paddies/ buffalo/ cows /pigs/ goats -- side by side with major construction sites in various stages of progress. It seems typical for billboard signs to be put up displaying the vision for the site, be it a hotel or grand plans for major conference center / casino / amusement park. There was also evidence of a number of large industries
Once we got to Halong Bay, we boarded our junk boat named 'Baby Dragon'. This was fitting because folklore legend is that a dragon came down from the mountain and its tail gorged out valleys and crevasses, then plunged into the sea. The result was the the nearly 3000 pinnacle islands that exist today.
Our junk boat motored out to the mail channel from Harbour and then wove in out out of the islands. We ended up in a protected area, designated by the government for tourist boats to drop anchor. I think we had about 25-30 junk boats scattered in the bay.
We had very nice dinner on boat, and really enjoyed each others company on our private boat.
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