Like a dazy haze, more faux mountains. This is real: there is zero editing or enhancements in this photo.

            This particular photo made the hour on the boat! As seen towards the nose of this cruise ship, there is a woman on her own little boat. Now, this woman is far from casually rowing through the Bay, she is actually selling goods to people from her boat, to those aboard the cruse ship! This was just a gem to witness. The customer on board the ship is leaning out the window in her room. I believe at the time in this photo, the saleswoman was presenting beads to the other woman.

            Due to the natural spacing between the islands, from afar they look as though they are a collective land mass.

            An Evergreen tree may be able to hold up its name, although not all of these islands are green all the way around. For example, we can see here where the majority of daily sunlight illuminates the stone mass.

Throughout the Ha La Bay, there are certain islands where if you look carefully the look like people. This is an excellent example I found, where the resting person is evident. Some will call these "mud fossils," as though they are the remains of former giants, or Titans, who once roamed the Earth. A few times I wondered to myself if these souls are camera shy, for there were moments where I was no longer able to find the person in the photo just a time after it had been taken.

There are more than 1,600 of these limestone islands in the Ha Long Bay, and they're simply a marvel to see in person. These islands are otherwise unsuitable to live on due to their rugged and incredibly steep composition of being a stone mass, however, many of the islands are covered in vegetation. Some of these land masses have tiny beaches, or even caves which may be visited. They are a component of the world that is best left to nature.

            A plant-based dish mimicking fried squid tentacles. What a creative approach! 

            Lunch time! Featured was a multi-course meal, presented in a very culinary style. This meatless dining featured a beginning course of the above. The bowl of soup presented a feeling of November, with a kind texture of potato-pumpkin.

            We are far enough in to the Bay where we may now begin to see the famous islands of this region of Vietnam.

            Aboard our cruise ship, we were treated to a handsome lunch. The napkin resembles the ship itself with its multiple sails. The beverage? I can't seem to recall what it was, but I do remember it being iceless.

            After departing the bus, we loaded our items onto a small boat before voyaging further into the water. While at the dock, we were presented with a well array of small scale cruse ships.