Well Christmas came and went and was uneventful really but in a spectacular location - Halong Bay, about a 3 hour drive and a 4 hour ferry from Ha Noi. Picture small solid limestone islands dotted in a small bay as far as the eye can see. Everywhere you turn all you see is limestone, more than a lifetime worth of undeveloped sport climbing of all grades and styles.
We took a ferry to Catba, the largest and inhabited island in Halong Bay. From there we hired a boat for 2 days. A whole boat all to ourselves (well including our 2 friendly Vietnamese, driver and cook) for only 100$ between us. Not bad. And supposedly they knew were all the climbing was too. Sweet.
Unfortunately, all the climbing they knew of was 2 islands one with 45 degree overhanging madness and the second one single solitary multipitch route on a slab. Oh well they tried and certainly was a bad place to be. The only down side is I managed to catch a bug and felt awful for the majority of it...
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