Winter wasn't the best time of year to visit Halong Bay, four hours by minibus to the north east of Hanoi, but the iconic karst limestone rocks (yes, them again, this time sticking out of the sea) was a sight we wanted to see, so off we went.
After settling into our cabin aboard our luxury cruiser, the Paloma, we set off in our kayak to look around a fishing village where the local people lived in houses built out over the Bay.
Yes, kids, that's really me paddling the kayak!
This is our very posh boat, the Paloma, which we chose virtually at random. It was our great good fortune to have selected a craft which had only taken to the seas a week before our trip, and even better luck saw to it that we were upgraded into the best family cabin with its own private deck. Lying in bed at dawn, propped up on fluffy pillows enjoying the lovely scenery through our wrap- around windows, we didn't even mind that the sun never shone and we were denied a sunrise and sunset.
Still a pretty sight, sunshine or not.
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