Well, Monkey Island was a bit of a lie. Having been told the island looked like a monkey, we eagerly started snapping at an island we thought looked like a gorilla (side on). Unfortunately, our tour guide got it wrong in that the island is so named on account of there supposedly "many cwazy monkey" on the island.
We were promptly rowed over to "Monkey Island" in something I was suprised stayed afloat. Actually I'm not that suprised it stayed up as me and some other sucker ensured it remained above sea-level by giving ourselves RSIs resulting from a manic bailing operation!!
The floating sieve then dropped us off with our departing our captain yelling "okay me see you in 2hour". It should be noted at this point that "Monkey Island" is about 3 football pitches in size and is largely inaccessible due to the razor sharp rocks from which it was cast!! Undeterred we set off in search for some "cwazy monkeys".
After clambering over the cut throat rocks for about 30minutes we didn't see as much as a banana skin, let alone one of the reportedly numerous furry little bastards!! At one point we did think we heard one through the trees, but unless the "cwazy monkeys" had worked out how to use power-tools it was probably our captain drilling more holes in his boat!
We eventually gave up the hunt and had a well earned nap in the sun. Leaving Monkey-less Island we made our way back to the Junk for our second night.
After dinner our fruitless monkey huunting day was rewarded with what can only be described as the funniest karaoke session I have ever witnessed. Due to none of the passengers being that drunk (at the time), the cabin crew took it upon themselves to serenade us with classics such as "Dawddy Quooo" (Daddy Cool) and "Bawbee Hi Mi Wan Moo Tiim" (Baby Hit Me One More Time). They eventually stopped when they eventually clocked we were laughing at them and not with them..I think it was the beer free-flowing out our noses as we tried to hide our sniggers!!
The third and final day was spent floating round Halong Bay (on account of the crew being unable to stand upright due to their hangovers!), napping on the top deck of the Junk and heading back to Hanoi to catch a night train to Sapa.
We were promptly rowed over to "Monkey Island" in something I was suprised stayed afloat. Actually I'm not that suprised it stayed up as me and some other sucker ensured it remained above sea-level by giving ourselves RSIs resulting from a manic bailing operation!!
The floating sieve then dropped us off with our departing our captain yelling "okay me see you in 2hour". It should be noted at this point that "Monkey Island" is about 3 football pitches in size and is largely inaccessible due to the razor sharp rocks from which it was cast!! Undeterred we set off in search for some "cwazy monkeys".
After clambering over the cut throat rocks for about 30minutes we didn't see as much as a banana skin, let alone one of the reportedly numerous furry little bastards!! At one point we did think we heard one through the trees, but unless the "cwazy monkeys" had worked out how to use power-tools it was probably our captain drilling more holes in his boat!
We eventually gave up the hunt and had a well earned nap in the sun. Leaving Monkey-less Island we made our way back to the Junk for our second night.
After dinner our fruitless monkey huunting day was rewarded with what can only be described as the funniest karaoke session I have ever witnessed. Due to none of the passengers being that drunk (at the time), the cabin crew took it upon themselves to serenade us with classics such as "Dawddy Quooo" (Daddy Cool) and "Bawbee Hi Mi Wan Moo Tiim" (Baby Hit Me One More Time). They eventually stopped when they eventually clocked we were laughing at them and not with them..I think it was the beer free-flowing out our noses as we tried to hide our sniggers!!
The third and final day was spent floating round Halong Bay (on account of the crew being unable to stand upright due to their hangovers!), napping on the top deck of the Junk and heading back to Hanoi to catch a night train to Sapa.
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