Juz an intro to my blog with this photo...
... are we having romance? with who? at where?
early morning as usual we went for breakfast in that nice and small restaurant with pancakes, pho and all those vietnamese food.
We manage to get in time for the van to Halong BAy.
Although the weather is kinda bad that morning with drizzling rain and some thin mist.
On the van we met a French lady that travels alone and she had been working at china for quite some time. She is i think about 23 and she can communicate in chinese with the china slang.
After that we met one family from Australia melbourne. A detective father, althought big size but he is a friendly person that always laugh ^^ Then we met a couple from Malaysia which is from Johor Baru.
After travelling for3 hours we reach the port where we can see alo
t of ships.
Reach at the port with my bro's blur look haha ^^However we were told that the storm is forecasted to arrive today.. therefore we had to wait in able to get the permission to get on board of the boat or ship. I am quite confuse as it is a big size boat so should i call it ship or boat?? haha
After waiting for sometime, the tourist guide came and tell us that we are cant stay on the boat at night. So she suggested that we can either come back on the night or we stay at CAt Ba Island overnight. B4 i go further, the tourist guide is Anh and she say that her english name is ANNA and she will be happier if we call her Anna and she is only 23 yrs old. She is kinda dark as she is a tourist at SAPA trekking b4 transferring to hanoi. In SAPA trekking, she had to guide tourists by trekking the mountains for about 3km daily. Continue with our story. So we chose to stay at Cat Ba island as it is more worthwhile than going back without staying enough on the boat xD.
So we waited for our boat to arrive or ship =x. When waiting i saw many foreigners that are waiting too get tired and sat on the road. There is a couple, the girl were so hot that she lie on the guy's lap although there are many ppl watching them. It is kinda brave.. haha
After waiting for 30 minutes, our big boat or ship finally arrive. The name of the boat is IMperial Junk. We were welcome by the captain of the boat and a wet hanky is given as a welcome to clean our hand. Then lunch is served on the boat while the boat leaves the port. There are loads and loads of boat surrounding us as though it is in the 80th century where we can see battle ships.
The lunch served is kinda terrible as again there is french fries and lots and lots of vegetable. HAHA~
After that we went to the top of the boat or the deck of the boat. There is those sea side Bed for ppl to sunbath. The wind is hyper strong n it is so cold and chilly. BUt is feels great xD
A sibling photo on the deck xD
Playing when my sis wants to take pic xDafter 3 hours of rounding on the sea, we finally reach our 1st destination, the place where is the attraction of Halong BAy. THe Cave, "Tian Kong Dong" or Hevean's Cave. After some climbing, we reached the cave. THere is enormous limestones here and there. The tour guide asks us to use our imagination to visualise these limestones as god or animals. There are lions, tiger, health god, BUddha, and even elephants if we can use our imagintaion on the limestones.After walking around the cave, we saw a memorandam and it is said to be written by the king who lives in this cave during wars. It is written in chinese but the memorandom is being vandalise by those local vietnamese. However we manage to read some words out. It says that this cave is a miracle to the vietnamese as it assists them from the wars between the north. other words are hardly been seen.
After that we set on board on the ship and start heading towards the Cat Ba island. On our way, we saw many naturally formed stones on the sea. One of the famous statue is the fighting cock.
Fighting cock statueWe reached Cat Ba island at about 5pm and we took a mini bus and yet it is really mini... haha... just like those mini bus we saw on tV on the story of old times. after 20 minutes we reached The Cat Ba Town. In there.. is almost like a dead town with only Restaurants and hotels. We checked into the Sunflower hotel where in that moment there is no electricity. We shift our things in and went out to have a walk. There are nothing more but restaurants, hotels, and one pub and stalls selling handicrafts.
Waiting for so long finally is dinner time xD
but we are so disappointed as the dinner is such a terrible where there is so less dishes and full of vegetable again =.=
there is only 2 plate of seafood.
We cant even feel full or abit full. Our stomach were still ringing like an alarm clock that were set to snooze.
After one hour rest in the hotel and seeing a football match, my father say jom lets go supper. The same old way, he dig out his map and tourist information. Then he say lets go this place where the lonely planet tours had recommend.
We headed north and there we go again the same confusion. The same name but different shop, juz side by side. We look and look getting lost and suddenly we spotted one shop full of foreigners at there drinking beer and again we are sure that the shop is surely that one xD
The boss serves us with a smile. Let me describe the waiter. He wears a big glasses which is like an Ah pek glasses, his hair is in a coconut shape and he has a bugs bunny teeth. He is cute and his english is ok. He can communicate with some body language when he lost his words haha.. He asked us wan to drink what but we say we wanna eat and he say no problem.
He quickly take a menu come and in the menu, it is special as there is not only the choice of food, there are also comments written by foreigners all over the world. I saw italians, france which wrote in french and even japanese. They strongly recommend spring rolls and seafoods. All are good comments and there is no bad comments except for the electric break down in the island. we ordered about 5 dishes which includes fried potatoes, Fried mee, Fish, Cuttle fish, and fresh shrimp spring rolls. We ask him enuff? he say it is more than enuff. Then he serves the dishes one by one. We eat it in our normal way which is eat arh eat arh~ giang mou dak seik arh~ haha~
The waiter see us in one kind and talking with the other waiters in vietnamese and i think they are saying that which is eldest, which is youngest and our way of eating is like monster that havent eat for days
haha...
when the fourth dish is served, he came and tell us dont nit to rush, eat slowly. Dont rush~ wao.. 1st time i hear ppl say this to us
haha..
When the 5th dish is served, we look at it and smiles are on our face becoz every dish are served in a big portion and it is superbly tasty. We wave our hand and he tot we wanted the bill but we say menu~ menu come come. then he was like shocked.. and gives us the menu. Again we order 3 more dishes. A shrimp, fish again and scallop.we wanted to order crab but he says it is small and we had 6 ppl so we nit to order 2 plate and it is expensive so he don recommend us to order. My bro saw the tiger beer was so cheap.. one bottle is juz rm1.80 so we ordered two bottle to share. After that we again eat arh eat arh~ then order again haha.. the waiter was so happy with our family as we keep on order. I think he is happy becoz we make him have business to do. Those foreigners just drink beer and i think he cant earn alot from them. WE also order two cup of black coffee to share. wao it was wonderful. I can say the whole trip, this is the best restaurant we ever went to. Nice service, cute waiter haha, and superb food. And guess what? we ate so much and i mean really much hyper much with beer and coffee. and we also bring our own red wine to the restaurant and the restaurant give us cup without charging us.. and guess what is the bill? ya.. it is 4.7million don but conver to Rm.. u wont think bout it.. it is just almost RM93.00
wuhu~
sedap sedap~~~
After that we went back to hotel and rest. The hotel is like a shit.. the bed is like.. yew... there are bugs or ticks on the bed.. keeps on biting me.. and i cant even had a good time sleeping.
