First Time on a LUXURY CRUISE in Vietnam ｜ Ha Long Bay

One of the many things the north of Vietnam is famous for is cruising along Halong Bay. For the next two days, we are going to take a scenic, beautiful ride along Bai Tu Long Bay, an equally beautiful but less touristy destination here in the northern part of Vietnam. We are going to sleep on a boat, see incredibly beautiful mountain formations, discover hidden caves, and go to local villages. So, are you coming? Let's go! Our car is here, and it's so pretty! Okay, we finally arrived in Halong Bay. We left our luggages, we got our badges, and then we have to wait about half an hour. We are at the, I think it's a sort of a harbor, and we are going to our boat right now, and it's so pretty here. I will show it to you. Look at this. This is so pretty, and look at that wheel over there. We also saw like an amusement park here. There are so many boats. Oh, this is so fun. So, we are taking a small boat to the bigger boat. Thank you. Okay, so this one is leading us to the bigger boat. Life jacket on. Let's go. Let's go. Second floor. Thank you. We can stay at any table, anywhere. Cheers! Here, in front of you, that is Halong Bay. It's divided into two parts. The first part, on this side, people call Halong. And the second part, on this side, people call Bajilong. We choose Bajilong Bay to bring you here. The bathroom is over here. Let's check it out. It's a lot bigger than I expected. So, he said we also have a shower. Wow, this is such a pretty view. This is actually my very first time when I'm cruising in Vietnam. And to be honest with you, it's my first time ever cruising. So, I think you can understand my excitement. Let's have a quick boat tour. So, the first thing I noticed is that every single time we are supposed to be descending or coming on the boat, we are having a smaller boat that we carry with us, which is this one. It's attached to our big boat. This is so interesting for me. I see that there is a restaurant here. So, there is a restaurant area inside. And if we go further away, there is another restaurant area, but outside. And here is where we were first, cricket, and where we ate earlier. And this is so beautiful. Look at this design. Look at these beautiful tables. And look at this view. Look at this view. This is so precious for me. And I think this is going to be our first stop for today. There is an upper deck that I want to see. It's the first time I'm seeing it. So, we're going to discover it together. 360 degrees of beautiful views. And wow, this is so pretty. Look, this is actually the name of the company we're having this tour with, Indochina Junk. And we're having some sunbeds here to relax, maybe to view the sunset. Look how pretty this is. So, let me know, have you ever been on a cruise? What was your experience on a previous cruise? Have you ever been to this area? I'm in the bigger boat, coming to the smaller boat. We're off to climbing. The view is the prize. So, I'm really looking forward to it. Tien means heaven. Cang means the view. And Sơn meaning mountain. Tien Cang Sơn means the beautiful view of the heaven from the mountain. It's time to explore the cave. In Romania, we also have a lot of caves that you can visit. And we used to visit a lot of them when I was a child. It may be available for all the caves. Here, the temperature is exactly the opposite as the temperature outside. So, right now, it's cooler in here than it's outside. Here, people used to live. But because it's not healthy, the government told them to move. Because we are in the rainy season, and it rained in the previous days, you can see a river formed here. This is really interesting. So, maybe that's why people cannot live here. Because if it's raining too much, it eventually gets flooded. We are on the smaller boat again, leaving our big boat behind. This time, we're going to an even nicer activity, which is going to be kayaking. So, now, this is not the first time for us. But I'm really excited and also a little bit worried. Because I know we're not very good at it. So, let's see how this goes. We are heading there. I think it's a really nice activity in this area, so peaceful. No, it's okay. I thought it would be hotter. Okay, this is our boat. No, it's okay. It's still okay. It's warm. Yeah, warm. Thank you. You're welcome. I will go first. I will go here, right? In the front here. Front here. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. And Elias in the back. We're totally not good at this. Right now, we are going to the beach. Yeah, going to the beach. We don't know the destination yet. No. It's our, maybe, second time kayaking, or first time. Yeah, but before, this boat is really big. Yeah, it's really big. Yeah, exactly. Very spacious. Oh, but everybody else is way in front of us. Way far in front of us. I think I will stop recording now and maybe start paddling also. It's so peaceful also, right? It's nice. Very nice. I love it. Okay, we almost made it to the beach with peace. This was some serious workout. I cannot, my hands are sore. I cannot do this anymore. This was so hard. It's so tiny. This is so nice. We just arrived right now to the beach. Here is our guide. Hello. Now I can get out. Yeah. We're now going to have a really nice activity that I'm looking forward to. It's actually a cooking class. And we will be taught how to cook the traditional pancakes, the crispy pancakes here. Our guide and the chef showing us how to prepare, explaining it. Banh Xeo in Vietnam is very famous, very popular. You can see it everywhere in Vietnam. It was started in the middle of Vietnam. Crispy. It's so crispy. Do you like it? Good. It's a very nice experience to be here. I was honestly expecting to be a little bit more maybe scared or more anxious about it. But I don't. It's so calm. It's so nice. It's so chill. The boat is not bouncy. So everything is so smooth. We had a wonderful sleep in the second part of the night because it was very windy as you can see right now. So today we're going to start the day with a breakfast at 6.45. Sun is up. It's really strong already. We are cruising right now on Bai Tu Long Bay. And we are going straight to a local village that we are going to visit today. Let's have a quick breakfast and continue exploring. I'm very excited because right now we are going to a local village. We will see the locals on their water houses. And we are going to switch to a bamboo boat. Oh, this is our boat in the back. I think these are the local bamboo boats that we're going to take. Oh my god. This is so pretty. Let's see what the guide has to tell us before and then go on the bamboo boat. Ah, this is Ban Vieng Fish Village. This is the village we are visiting right now. You can see the people are living in the lagoon and we are outside the lagoon right now. Time to take the local boat. Okay. I did it. Bye bye. I think that these are the houses, the local houses our guide was telling us about. Look at them. So he was saying that around every house there is a family business fishing farm. Our tour guide explained us that in this fishing village, once they are done with the fishing, they transport it to the mainland where they sell it. And also the fish that we had on the boat is from this village, which is very nice. And I could tell that the fish that we had is very fresh. And that makes perfect sense. After visiting the fishing village, we had a sort of a brunch. We actually ate pretty well while on this cruise. And right now it's time for our adventure to come to an end. We are going to embark again the smaller boat to go to the pier. Back to the pier. We are going to go back to Hanoi for now because tonight we are leaving to another beautiful place in the northern part of Vietnam. 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