This is an entry about Ben’s day trip to Kayak Halong Bay, in his Vietnam travel. Feeling the peace of the bay, discovering the miraculous of it by kayaking!

We’d been drinking, Danny and I, perhaps a little too much to be jumping off Junk boats but man it was fun! Danny’s all-American, ‘Now that’s what I’m talking about’ enthusiasm is what my trip has so far been missing. Bewailing the fact that our Junk boat, the perfect setting to get down to some serious partying, is slightly lacking in hip young party enthusiasts – Danny and I were the only folk on deck and it was only 9:30 – a night swim was the only answer. It was a good idea. The water was deliriously refreshing in the tropical heat and gave my fading brain a much-needed wake up call. The idea of swimming to party at one of the other boats docked nearby was raised, but there was nothing going on there either. So jumping off those sweeping Junk boat eaves was really the only answer