It is a beautiful neighborhood with with lots of boutique restaurants and shops. We invited our friends from the Netherlands to join us for dinner and they agreed. We found the restaurant in the Time Out magazine. Anyway, the entire bus ride lasted four hours and we finally arrived at the city of Halong. We were supposed to take a two day luxury boat tour on a ship called The Lagoon Explorer. As my wife is a travel agent, and knows that in certain cases people do not show up, we decided to take a taxi to the airport nonetheless. It was actually not far from the border, about 5 kilometers away.
