Part 10. Must see. Halong bay.
What time are you ready to wake up on vacation? After all, people, when they are going on vacation, probably dream of relaxing) What does it mean to get enough sleep? Here you personally, what time are you ready to wake up to explore the world?
This question did not torment me at all. I could wake up at any time. Adventure was waiting for me!
And on this day I was ready not to sleep at all) In the morning we went out to the most beautiful bay in the world - Halong Bay. Three thousand islands beckoned us) How could we sleep peacefully? )
My itch of impatience was transferred to the rest of our team and we decided:
-Let's go tomorrow to meet the dawn on the mountain, from which the bay is visible?
-Come on!
We googled what time the dawn would come, calculated how long it would take to get to the observation deck, agreed with Igor's unexpectedly met acquaintances, and went to the rooms in the firm belief that we would wake up in the middle of the night.
Already in the room, Ira told me that she didn't want to go.
- And I'll go! - I brag.
And of course, she explained to me on her fingers why you should not walk in the dark along a wet road of stones and clay to the top of the mountain, which is not even within walking distance from the hotel. We still have a lot of interesting things ahead of us, so don't put yourself in danger.
And we didn't go.
There are a lot of things that now I remember with a sigh "oh, I missed . . ", but I don’t remember this mountain) Indeed, it was possible to slip and twist your leg there like twice two.
The ladder looks like this:
(photo from internet)
At nine in the morning we gathered at the travel agency, we were given a bottle of water and the bus took us to the nearest pier.
Fog, dense clouds and, accordingly, poor visibility upset me a little
But what to do, where there is water, there are often fogs. Good weather is rather rare here.
I shoot as is, then I add lights and colors in Snapseed) The photos are a bit strange, as if I drew them with pencils, but I saw it that way.
We see a floating village. There are many of them in Halong Bay. People live in these floating houses.
It's hard to live here all your life. It's hard to even imagine it.
photo by Igor Titov
Some people are said to have never set foot on earth. Here people are born and die,
photo by Igor Titov
floating shops come here,
photo by Igor Titov
authorities,
photo by Igor Titov
and buy their catch here too. Full life cycle.
photo by Igor Titov
Some boats are quite small. Maybe this is a working option?
photo by Igor Titov
We only look at the village from the boat, but I know that there are excursions where tourists are invited to dinner in these villages. And our path continues. We are going to the farm.
photo by Igor Titov
To be honest, visiting the floating village is very depressing. It is clear that this is a flavor, that you need to see how people live in the country you came to and we tried to visit not the most well-groomed places, but I never had such a depressing state before or after.
And the nature is beautiful. Although, for some reason I had hope to see high, high mountains) This is what I imagined:
Internet photo
Probably we came from the wrong side)
A little more and the clouds parted completely. Lucky)
Arriving at the pearl farm.
They tell us for a long time and show us the technology of growing "natural" pearls.
I'm more interested in the nature around
photo by Igor Titov
And this, by the way, is our ship
Let's go further)
The most luxurious thing we meet is this rock. I could probably stare at her for hours.
Next stop in a small cove. Here everyone can go canoeing.
I didn't want to ride, I just wanted to wallow on the deck)
Somehow I have never seen myself on such a flimsy boat, and the cold wind did not contribute to water procedures at all.
But everyone obviously liked it)
I suspect that they went to the caves, since such excursions usually include caves, and I would even be interested in these caves, but I could not force myself to sit in a canoe.
When everyone returned, we were served lunch and we were completely exhausted) Soon the boat set off on the return journey
The clouds began to cover the sky again. And they brought us... to the beach) Some even swam, although it was really cold.
Tired, hushed, we go (go? ) home.
I liked the tower)
On the way we met a reflection of the sunset)
This is how our lazy passed, the seventh day in Vietnam, December 11.2015
Whole cycle:
1. Preface to the story of how I went to Vietnam
2. Morning in the middle of the night or Hello Comrade Beijing!
3. Ho Chi Minh City is delicious.
4. Part 4. Ho Chi Minh City-Dalat.
5. Part 5. What would a day be like if it started in a madhouse?
6. Part 6. Da Nang. Marble mountains.
7. Part 7. The soulful city of Hoi An.
8. Part 8. Why did they destroy Michonne?
9. Part 9. By air, by sea, by land.
10. Part 10. Must see. Halong bay.
