We had what they called a light breakfast, but it was pretty filling with omelette and pastries as well as a selection of fruit.

We woke up quite early, but not early enough to participate in the Tai Chi class.

We were then transferred from the main cruise ship to a slightly smaller dayboat.

On this dayboat, we cruised to Cong Dam and relaxed on the sundeck.

After a while, we reached the kayak station. We had 1 kayak between 2 of us, and we were shown how to get to a small area of beach.

Whilst we were kayaking along, we saw a fisherman come past us who was rowing with his feet. We learnt that the fishermen are taught how to do this at a young age so that they can use their hands to fish.

The beach area was quite small, but there was enough space for all of us, and it was an area where we could go swimming. I saw some small jumping fish in the eater whilst I was swimming.

Just before we were going to get back in the kayaks, our guide told us that there was a small temple opposite the beach. Unfortunately, we didn’t get time to go and visit it.

We did come across a local boat on our way back, but luckily managed to avoid colliding into it!

Back on the dayboat, we had a delicious lunch.

And then it was more relaxing on the top deck whilst taking in the amazing scenery.

The formation of Halong Bay dates to over 500 million years ago. It consists of 1,969 ancient marine limestone rocks. These rocks used to stand at over 1,000 meters tall, but millions of years of erosion have reduced them to their present size.

When we got back to the cruise ship, we received another warm welcome and refreshing drink.

Mandy and I had a massage booked for 3pm, so we headed off to get changed and go to the cabin where they were found the massage. It was a very relaxing body massage.

After a shower to we refresh, we went back to the sundeck to watch another amazing sunset.

Mandy kindly bought a bottle of champagne to celebrate her birthday, a present from her boss.

After another delicious dinner, we went to the reception area and onto the small boat to do a bit of squid fishing. We soon learnt that it wasn’t really squid season, and it had been over a week since anyone caught a squid.

It was another lovely moonlit night.