It was a good night's sleep on the junk boat, maybe even one of the best in the trip. The morning was cool, probably due to the sea breeze. Breakfast, for once was different, we had bread, butter and jam. By 0915 we were already leaving for the harbour, away from halong bay. Our stay in halong bay was a rather short one.
We began another 3 hour journey back to hanoi when we came onshore. We had lunch at a Hong Kong restaurant nearby prior to that. We saw several cemetaries along the 70+ km trip back. Other than those, the view had remained constant throughout.
We reached Hanoi by around 1300. All of us were held in great anticipation regarding the JC(junior college)we were to be posted to for the first 3 months. Fortunately for us, there was a computer there for us to check our posting.
We met 45 mins later to tour around Hanoi. Many of us were quite worn out and we did not explore too far a distance from the guesthouse. Dinner proved to be quite novel this time round. All of us did not manage to eat much though. We had the traditional bánh cuon of Vietnam(which costs only 2 sing dollar). It bears some resemblance to a local Singaporean food( meat fillings wrapped in thin layers of steamed rice flour). It was quite interesting to run into fellow Singaporeans who identified us through our accents when it occurred that night.
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