Having travelled back to Hanoi from Hoi An via plane, we made our way out to Cat Ba with a bus/boat/bus package – the quickest and easiest way to reach the island without your own transport. (See my post ‘Our 12 Day Travel Plan’ for more info). We caught the bus in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, giving …
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Koh Chang and Cat Ba – Tet Holiday Island Adventures
Not long after my arrival in Hanoi , Vietnam was celebrating Tet holiday (Lunar New Year). Everything was closing and many people were leaving town for a week. This resulted in two mini adventures I had not expected. The first, was spending just under a week in Thailand on Koh Chang island. A blissful retreat, …
Cat Ba Island
Well, the journey from Hanoi to Cat Ba Island was certainly an interesting one. I teamed up with Leah, an American girl I met in the hostel, and we left Hanoi at 10am, taking a three hour bus journey to Haiphong. During this bus journey, the driver felt the need to honk his horn when …