It has been a really fun trip. Lots of beautiful views and the food is rather refreshing.
For the rest of the day, we just walked around the place.
We next visited Maison Centrale or better known as Hanoi Hilton which is a prison that the French built. There is a lot of history here and the audio guides were wonderful. We had a good time listening to the history and it was an interesting one as the perspective is from the locals.
Pauline loves markets of all sorts so we visited the Dong Xuan Market.
We saw Singapore ice cream at Hanoi which is basically the local ice cream sandwich with waffle or bread that every kid has had outside their primary school :-)
In the morning we visited Ti Top Island which is named after a Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov. A beautiful island but we were not adventurous enough so we had a nice relaxing walk.
The next morning, we work up early to have a look. I think the morning shots were the best.
We stayed one night on the boat. The view at night is quite different. Pauline had some fun making a spring roll. Dinner was not quite good unfortunately.
The next day was spend in Ha Long Bay. It was beautiful but I guess ready touristy too.
In the evening, we went to take a photo of the St Joseph's Cathedral.