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HA LONG BAY OVERNIGHTER - FOUR DAYS

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Our most popular and time-efficient trip gets you two long range days plus two half days in the Bay. This allows you a foray to the Triple Hong and Fish Farm Islands one day, and the Island maze on the next. If you come this far, you deserve to see both amazing days. Still, with more than a thousand islands, even four days in the Bay is just a taste.

Similar to our Six-Day itinerary, which adds more outer islands.

DAY ONE

0900	Depart your Hanoi hotel.
1200	Arrive Ha Long and eat in deluxe seafood restaurant.
1300	Depart Ha Long pier.
1500	Arrive Cat Ba and explore a labyrinth lagoon by kayak.
1800	Return to escort boat.
1900	Seafood dinner on way to Titop Island.
2100	Optional night paddle.
2200	Return to escort boat and sleep.

DAY TWO

0700	Breakfast.
0800	Depart for Second Island.
0900	Kayak caves in Second Island, one with a triple Phong.
1200	Return to escort boat for lunch.
1300	Arrive Fish Farm Island and paddle sea tunnel and coastal paddle.
1800	Rendezvous with escort boat. Return to Titop Island anchorage.
1900	Dinner.
2000	Optional night paddle. Overnight on the boat.

DAY THREE

0700	Sunrise breakfast.
0800	Visit the Island maze, a mini-archipelago inside an island with the Needle Cave, Fantasyland Rock garden with Mini-Hongs, the Mangrove Hong and "Paddle between the Pillars", a channel created by limestone sea stacks. John Gray found this island in 1998 and we remain the only company to go there.
1200	Return to escort boat for lunch.
1300	Continue exploration of the Maze.
1800	Rendezvous with Escort boat.
1900	Dinner and Sleep on escort boat.
2000	Optional Moonlight paddle.

DAY FOUR

0530	Optional Sunrise paddle.
0700	Breakfast underway.
0830	Arrive at complicated bay on North Coast of Cat Ba for final kayaking area.
1100	Depart for the pier with lunch while navigating between complex limestone islands.
1230	Arrive at the pier.
1300	Depart to Hanoi.
1600	Return to your hotel in Hanoi.

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