"MISTY AND MYSTERIOUS HALONG BAY" a Ha Long Travel Page by Sininen

A cup of coffee and a slice of melon for breakfast and I was sitting and waiting for the bus to come and fetch me. The girl in Kim's Café had said to me that the bus would pick me up at 8.00 and it was already past it, so the girls at the hotel got nervous, though I thought that it meant that the bus would leave at 8.00 and it would take some time to get to the North Hotel 1. I sat next to a South Korean girl, who was freezing in her shorts and sleeveless T-shirt. She said that she didn't take any warmer clothes with her and asked if I hadbought my denim jacket in Vietnam. I had to disappoint her.

One of the girls phoned to Kim's Café and she was told that the bus had already left, so I continued waiting. After a while a motorbike arrived and at once I was sure that it had come to get me and I was right. The street was too narrow for the bus so they sent this young man to take me and once again I was on the motorbike and this time I was a little bit, well if not scared at least worried, because this young man drove fast and carelessly. I hated the way they turned to left against the oncoming traffic. I was sure that we would crash with another motorbike or with a car, but I guess he knew what he was doing, because nothing happened. The bus left as soon as I got in.

After a while the bus began to crawl and I wondered what was going on, but nothing was explained. Later they told us that they were waiting for another passenger, though I didn't understand why they couldn't stop the bus and wait. The missing man arrived on a motorbike and we could continue our trip. Before arriving in Halong Bay we stopped in the craft shop where disable children make souvenirs and to have lunch in Haiphong.