{"id":18718,"date":"2015-04-06T07:54:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T07:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=18718"},"modified":"2015-04-06T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T08:03:37","slug":"vietnam-photo-tour-hanoi-to-halong-bay-and-cat-ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/vietnam-photo-tour-hanoi-to-halong-bay-and-cat-ba\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Photo Tour: Hanoi to Halong Bay and Cat Ba"},"content":{"rendered":"

After departing Hoi Anh via our flight from Danang, we headed to Hanoi to experience a completely different \u201cVietnam\u201d. In Hanoi, we shot the bustling old quarter and visited Ho Chi Minh\u2019s tomb, and even had some free time to avail ourselves to some of the best shopping in Southeast Asia. It\u2019s here where the silk and lacquer ware is most plentiful and inexpensive and we’re staying just a block from “silk street” in Hanoi’s famous Old Quarter. After some time in Hanoi we headed to the Gulf of Tonkin and breathtaking Halong Bay, along the way stopping and photographing rice paddies and our favorite village. Once arriving in Ha Long Bay (literally: Descending Dragon Bay) yet another UNESCO World Heritage site, we boarded our private boat for lunch and a half day cruise sail among Halong Bay\u2019s limestone cliffs\u00a0to Cat Ba Island.<\/p>\n

Enjoy these 45 images, and perhaps later this week, I’ll make one more post of photos from this year’s Jim Cline Photo Tours Vietnam Explorer Tour<\/a><\/p>\n

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a “zoom-burst” shot from my cyclo during our tour of Hanoi<\/p>\n

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Philippine tourists taking a group selfie on the bridge Hoan Kim lake.<\/p>\n

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According to John McCain, this is not his flight suit, as many who visit here are led to believe.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Mirror delivery: of course it’s an OSHA approved and ISO 9001 compliant delivery service….<\/p>\n

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Tour participant Lisa working a shot from our boat on Halong Bay<\/p>\n

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After departing Hoi Anh via our flight from Danang, we headed to Hanoi to experience a completely different \u201cVietnam\u201d. In Hanoi, we shot the bustling old quarter and visited Ho Chi Minh\u2019s tomb, and even had some free time to avail ourselves to some of the best shopping in Southeast Asia. It\u2019s here where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,151],"tags":[188,25,218,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18718"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18718\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}