Diem Dien

After Ha Long Bay we headed South, that was the only plan. Down 'highway' 10 but more or less a country road. We had a swim after getting off the boat. Unlike all the other people who were on the package tours from Hanoi, were being piled into buses headed for Hanoi. We road right up until the sun left the sky's but we had reached the sea side in Diem Dien.

It was a beautiful stretch of flood planes, not quite the beach I head expected. But a pleasant surprise none the less. We had a beer and some awful dried squid biltong. On one of the stilt kariochi bars over the flood planes. Look out over it with thousands of stilt houses dotting the horizon as far as the eyes could see. What a sight!