Tony and Bettina tried their best to indulge in the local culture by drinking tea and a smoking from the shared (Tobacco) water pipe in the morning.
Tony and Bettina’s budget is being depleted at a faster rate than expected so they had to work a bit.
Tony worked with the Red Zhao, weaving textiles, for a few days in the northern rural area called Sapa located only 2 km south of the Chinese border. 
(Rice paddie fields in the mountains of Sapa)
Bettina did a great job selling fruit on the streets of Ha Noi despite having difficulty understanding what her customers were asking for.
To get away from it all Bettina and Tony decided to take a long trip. How long you ask?
Well they spent 2 days in the quiet, serene, natural wonder of the world nominnee Ha Long Bay. 
It was quite nice, especially "surprise" cave with all of its stalactites and stalacmite.
(Stalacmite in Surprise Cave ?)
So far Tony and Tini have been healthy except when they got food poisoning from something they ate either in Vietnam or Singapore. Luckily they had already checked into their resort in Bali and were able to recover within a day.
(P.S. Bettina and Tony are still "workin' it," having been inspired by the hard wood carvings at the Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi)
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- Ha Noi, Vietnam: a) take the soft sleeper 4 pax berth overnight train to Sa Pa, stay at the new Green Bamboo hotel and hire a H'mong girl to trek with you to her village and try even one night Homestay at Tan Van village. b) Take a two night Halong Bay cruise on a new Deluxe Junke (stay two nights on board while cruising this world natural heritage site).
