Halong Bay

raise your hand if you have ever seen that french classic "indochine" starring catherine denueve. well it is probably my favorite foreign film and i think catherine denueve is one hot senior citizen. anyways, the story is incredible. it is a romantic depiction on how the french lost their hold of their colony and a triumphant depiction of how the vietnamese commence their revolt against their french masters. the scenes are epic and landscape is beautiful. if you haven't seen it, i hope these pictures convinced you to at least netflix it.

anyways, this movie was the one reason why i have always wanted to go to vietnam. well....i guess graham greene and kaiko also had influenced me. but i have always wanted to see halong bay. they are these tiny islands grouped together in one area. there are like huge marbles, thousands of them, roled in one corner of a room that is flooded... except these marbles have vegetation carpeting them. it seemed endless and the room had the sky for walls.

it was an awesome sight. its so unique and breathless. the vastness of it all made it quite romantic.

tri's mom bought a vat of these strange looking shellfish for about a dollar from women lurking around one of these islands selling what they have caught, and she had the crew of our boat to cook it for us. we swore not to eat seafood for our stomach sake but we had to try these. they were rubbery but delicious. our stomach held on and we were quite content with the culinary surprise.