Ha Long Bay and cars in Vietnam

Yesterday and today we did a boat trip to Halong Bay ... its a Unesco world heritage site...really beautiful. Cool thing is we stayed overnight on the boat .. with swimming in the sea, a lot of really good Vietnamese food and plenty of Vietnamese beer and vodka ... with no hangover at all today! The trip to Ha Long were the boat started is about 3 hours ... an adventure. You thought Italian drivers in Palermo are nuts? They are the most disciplined drivers compared to Vietnamese - never seen something like this. Vietnames cars constantly hoot, even on (what looks like) highways .. to just make sure cars (and especially scooters) get out of the way. What was really funny - i saw this little vietnamese kid playing with 2 toycars ... and the sound he was making playing with the car was not 'brum brum' (how I would have expected it) but instead he was going 'beep beep'. We also met a very nice Austrialian couple on the boat - Steve and Mardi, who actually had taken the Vodka we didnt get a hangover from. We will meet them tonight again for dinner.

Tina says hello to everybody - she wants to go out now...so I better stop writing.

Ciao ciao
Peter

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