This morning we got a taxi to the bus pick up point. Journey was fine, comfortable, nothing much to report really.. Initial thoughts on cat ba island wasn’t much, a little bit blackpool-esque, all the hotels that we dropped people before ours were pretty shabby which made us worry, but ours looked decent in comparison. Got dropped off at the hotel. We went out to grab some food, seems to have quite a buzz for such a small place, its quickly grown on us!
Booked a boat trip for tomorrow for ha la bay and Halong Bay.
Quite a quiet afternoon, played some pool in the bungalow hostel, although there were 4balls missing. Again mainly seafood restaurants all with huge fish in tiny tanks, some floating seafood restaurants.
In the evening we went back to a bar called the bigman, we ate here at lunch but it seems to be the most popular. Played some cards, and got some nachos, Were both totally bored of the vegetarian food options here now, and everything is deep fried. If I see another deep fried spring roll I will go mad! This was my first craving for a good chicken burger or something, whereas David is desperate for some chocolate, he ordered the chocolate cake but they didn’t have any 😂. It was happy hour on cocktails, again a welcome change to local beer which is actually cheaper than water.
On our way out of the bar we bumped into Ruth and Ben, a couple who did the Phong Nha trek with us, Ben waved us over so we decided to join them for a couple more beers, next to them was a Korean couple who kept pouring bottled water into their pints, well at least that’s what it looked like but actually it was home brewed rice wine and it smelt dangerous! They were all drinking it in their beers but we both had our sensible heads on with the boat trip the next day!
South East Asia 2019 