Our very first cruise within beautiful Halong Bay Vietnam

We recently took an incredible journey to one of the most beautiful parts of Vietnam, Ha Long Bay while we're waiting for citizenship paperwork to be completed for the recent adoption of our boy Evan Binh Minh. It's around the middle of the Vietnam and China ocean, where the red A is below:


Halong Cruise

We had a amazing 2 day cruise within the superb Indochina Sails. Their boats are very basic, in involving a Chinese junk ship, and an classic wood Galleon ship. It was really outstanding, sort of like becoming in the Pirates of the Caribbean or Lord with the Rings movie! It had been our very first cruise and we really enjoyed it, extremely luxurious, but more cost-effective than a hotel!

The bay is involving Vietnam and China, and has hundreds of islands, caves, and exciting wonders, with a great deal of local fishing boats.

Component of the tour on the bay included swimming inside the warm, incredibly salty ocean over a beach off one with the islands. It was Evan's primary time inside the ocean, he was mesmerized!

Then, we had been taking into a floating fishing village subsidized by the Vietnam government. Every thing on water, which include floating stores that came up to our boat with their wares, latched right beside us as we were definitely travelling, and also a floating school! It was really unreal how these folks reside where they work. You may see all of this inside the photos beneath:

As a final point, we went with a cave named surprise cave that was a massive underground cavern inside of one particular from the island mountains! There were even are living bats inside that we saw hanging approximately, and since we were definitely the very first visitors to the cave within the morning, we got to determine them in their natural habitat flying close to the back in the cave! Evan was asleep and suddenly woke up inside of this cave, I wonder what he thought? He seemed very fascinated.

Surprise Cave, Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

We wished it was longer and will definitely be back for a longer tour, as there is so much to see in this beautiful place, the photos give a tiny glimpse of what you see when your there. I highly recommend you visit this part of the world… Fascinating!
If you want to go there you can contact TUNTRAVEL at
24-26 Bat Su Street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, Vietnam
Phone: +84 (4) 39230898 / 39232982 / 39233278
Fax: +84 (4) 38243886 / 39233280
Website: hotels-in-vietnam[dot]com