Traveling (and bus wrecks) can get in the way of journaling the journey. Rewind one month to Halong Bay, Vietnam.
We’re on another rice barge (a.k.a. deluxe floating resort) doing what many good tourists do; seeing beautiful scenery, eating exquisite food, and meeting lots of other westerners. We generally don’t take tour packages as they tend to ‘view’ the culture and environment from an insulated distance rather than be absorbed into it as we like to do by traveling independently. Unfortunately avoiding the tour packages in Halong Bay was near to impossible so in this case we splurged and took a really nice one. It was fun, relaxing, and…a bit lacking in adventure.
Houses, markets, kids playing, even dogs and cats that have never touched real ground; everything is on the water at this small floating fishing village.
Thanks for giving us more great photos. Did you get into the water at all?
ReplyDeleteRumor has it you're about to be kicked out of Asia and we may actually see you in less than a month. Or am I getting my hopes too high?