View Larger Mapwith my sister alicia and her boyfriend nico we took a 3 day tour of halong bay- or dragon bay as its called in vietnamese. its a pretty extraordinary piece of geography- there's easily 500 limestone mini-islands strewn throughout the bay. some are as big as football fields, but most are much smaller mountain tops jutting out of the ocean. and one, cat ba island, is big enough to have a national park on it. we went for a bike ride on the island, and then for a short hike with an old vietnam vet- not an american vet. he showed us a cave he used to hide in when the US was bombing. he also showed us some bullet holes in his leg- he had 7 bullet wounds. it was amazing to hike around with this guy... he didn't speak much english, but seemed to appreciate how interested we were. later on when we were having a soda, he told us (through another tour guide) that he keeps strong by having a shot of this stuff every day- its rice whiskey infused with dead animals. the floating bits and pieces are for extra flavor.
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