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Halong Bay in the year 2000

The trip to Halong Bay is a nice bus ride from Hanoi via Hai Phong. It takes four hours and gives a good impression of the countryside. There are everywhere beautiful green rice terraces, pools covered with lotus flowers but also many military cemeteries as they lost millions of lives in the wars during the last century. That is also the reason why the population looked very young.
At Halong Bay I entered a boat heading Cat Ba.

Cat Ba is a bit like Vietnam's answer to Nice. Promenade along the shore, cafés, playgrounds for children, restaurants on boats serving the freshest seafood.

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On the way back to Hanoi we stopped at a motorway service area. They had an interesting project: handicapped children learned to embroider paintings which are sold for 40 to 200 $. Our stop was organized to generate consumer's demand for these kids. Help to help yourself.