Perfume Pagoda

A day before flying back, we were still hoping to go Halong Bay for a day trip, instead of overnight stay at the junk and our tour agent said he will try his best to arrange for us. When we boarded the tour bus the next day, we were told it was heading to Perfume Pagoda. The thing is, half way through the journey, our talkative tour guide told us that actually Halong Bay had been cleared off from thunderstorm and some tours were heading there at that time. :s

It was raining cats and dogs on most part of the day, but I guess we were slightly better prepared; complete with the hat and raining coat. We were also better prepared to deal with our boat rower. As we were sharing our boat with an Israelis couple, they suggested that we give 10,000 vnd each as the tips to our rower. However, the rower thought 40,000 vnd was too little. Luckily, MH and I were sitting at the prow, so the rower kept harassing the Israelis couple instead. Reaching the shore, there were a lot scene of other rowers harassing their respective customers. MH tried to top up some for our rower; so he took out his wallet and started searching for small change. However, our rower helped herself with 20,000 vnd note in his wallet, almost like snatching it. Oh, well... :)