Thursday, 2 October 2014

Vietnam - Cuc Phuong National Park and Ha Long Bay

On the way to Cuc Phuong National Park, we stopped at the Hoa Lu temples, which are located in a citadel from many years ago. The scenery was fantastic, with huge prominent chunks of limestone rising up out of flooded rice paddies.


Hoa Lu Temples
Hoa Lu Temples











At the national park we went to an endangered primate centre and went for a walk through the jungle to see a 1000 year old tree (I asked if they had to change the sign every year - to 1001, 1002, etc - and got a very exasperated reply that 1000 wasn't exact... It meant it was thousands of years old).


Family of gibbons
Wildlife preservation sign











Thousand year old tree
Thousand year old tree


Directional sign














The next day we drove to Ha Long Bay and got on a small cruise ship (6 rooms?) to tour around. We stopped to see a cave and then went swimming and spent the night on the boat. The scenery was great when you could see it around all of the other boats.

Ha Long Bay
Ha Long Bay



Ha Long Bay


Stalagmites and stalactites



 
Ha Long Bay


















Ha Long Bay

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