We finished up meetings in Hanoi, all of which were fairly productive. Some pictures of Hanoi below...
THEN...because we had all our meetings early in the week, we decided to take advantage of our location and do a "junk tour" of Halong Bay, which is about 3 hours from Hanoi. Halong Bay has about 2,000 limestone islands and we had heard, absolutely beautiful. Its a big tourist thing, and there are tons of boats ("junks") that you can take with all basically the same itinerary. That is our ship in the picture, called "Oriental Sails." You get there around noon, board your boat, have lunch while crusing, go see some of the caves, go kayaking, swimming, have dinner, sleep on the boat, and visit a "floating" village in the morning before returning. The floating villages are pretty unique, they have been there for generations and are obviously very poor. The people are usually fisherman and go into land to sell fish and then get needed supplies, like food and water. They have a floating school but it only is elementary school. There were also dogs, which I did not quite understand in terms of the bathroom situation...
Its a quick trip but SO beautiful, the pictures do not do it justice and I'm so glad we got to squeeze this in. The food was AMAZING, see next post.
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