 181 - It could be the stairway to heaven! |
 183 - Or maybe it just leads to another ramp. |
 185 - Walk towards the light! |
 186 - Back on the boat, we pass a local fisherman. |
 190 - The pattern on the rocks is interesting.. Glacial scraping? |
 191 - Another fishing boat chugging along. |
 192 - Tourist boats cruise in between floating houses! |
 193 - I'm pondering life, the universe, and everything. |
 195 - Good places for a bit of rock climbing! |
 196 - My guide wouldn't let me go into these little caves. |
 198 - The floating village. |
 199 - The views were breathtakingly panoramic. |
 200 - But punctuated by the reality of daily Vietnamese life. |
 201 - Karst formations jutting out of the sea as far as the eye can see. |
 202 - Maybe I could afford one of these floating houses. That'd be cool. |
 203 - I took a lot of pictures of the sea on my "3 hour cruise". |
 205 - What looked to be a nice, secluded beach. |
 209 - I was totally jonesing to stop and go exploring here. |
 210 - Or in one of these treacherous caves! |
 213 - But, muttering about fines, my captain kept us on course. |
 220 - I'm thinking "I hope I don't fall in!" |
 221 - The captain nixed my plan to climb this ladder too! |
 231 - Another party boat. Yeah, that's about how big my boat was too. Not bad for like $5. |
 232 - Another cave loomed, but we skipped this one. |
 233 - Cruised through some more houses. |
 234 - Past some big looming rocks! |
 235 - Next to a colorful sailed boat. |
 237 - Beside this village in a cave. |
 239 - I was about ready to return to land now. The Ha Long Bay cruise is a long one! |
 243 - We went by this last rock formation. |
 244 - And around the bend, into the harbor. |
 258 - Hiking in the park, my camera went dead! |
 259 - But not before I claimed this little high point for tall people everywhere! |
 260 - The hydrofoil I took on the return trip, docked at the mainland. |
 262 - On the road back to Hanoi. |
 263 - Hanoi. Notice how the bus and the motorcycles are all moving at the same time. |
 265 - The guard tower in a busy Hanoi street. |
 267 - Near the central train station in Hanoi. |
 268 - Hmmmm... I think I might be lost. |
 269 - But made it back into the civilized part of the city. |
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