This place is beautiful with limestone mountains rising from the water and beautiful caves. We took two boats plus the ship tender to get to the caves where we had to climb to the top of the mountain to get to the magnificent caves. I don't know how but we did it. I will post photos when possible. We then cruised around the bay on our private boat and saw beautiful formations and local floating fishing villages plus a beautiful and very elegant hotel right in the middle of the bay. I am really surprised by all the modern construction and that everyone seems so nice. I expected hostility and bitterness but see nothing but courtesy and politeness and a genuine feeling of wanting to get to know us. Everyone is very helpful. I don't really see any evidence of communism except the further north we go the more hammer and sycle signs and some political posters. They are building lots of luxury western hotels and we have seen pizza places and ice cream places and Italian restaurants. Not American. Just their own version of things.
Tomorrow we are headed for Hanoi, the capital and stronghold of their communist ideals. It should be interesting and different from the rest of the country I would assume. We have been eating and drinking off the ship but we are not dead yet.
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