Yesterday started with a morning session of Tai Chi on the deck. Yes, I did that and again this morning, so I am like an old hand. Then we climbed a mountain on an island which is the only island that tourists go onto in big numbers. It was called Ti Topk (and I will correct that later, if it is wrong). It is 400 steps straight up and Sepa and I climbed it like mountain goats, albeit old, over heated, breathless mountain goats. Once at the top we had a 360 view of Ha Long Bay, if you don’t count the trees in the way and the freezers of the guy selling cold drinks. Down was quite a bit faster than up as there was a beach at the bottom with our names on it and we must have evaporated half of the bay when we went in.
Next was a boat ride under a cave, where our driver found a cellphone in the water and that excited him almost to facial expression stage. We went into a sort of lagoon and the driver said the monkeys get fed at 9 0’clock. It was 8.56, so he turned around and took us back out. He did not seem too keen to wait the 4 minutes for us to see. I think there must be a bounty on reclaimed cellphones that had his full attention.
Then it was 9.30am. I will upload some photos when we have better reception :)
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