Sleeping on a junk is definite experience to be devoured.

Be very careful when booking tours… I did a lot of research before booking ours. Worked out well, but the boat did pick up other people (read: drunken loud-mouth douchebags) on the second night while we were dumped on CatBa Island. Although I did enjoy CatBa Island, it would have been nice to spend 2 nights on the boat.

The caves are great, very busy, but nice to see. Not ‘stunning’ however. The best view we had the entire time was when we went kayaking through a small cave where boats couldn’t go.

Waiting at the dock was a bit shite. But the bus ride was pretty comfortable (specially if you’ve ever crossed the boarder from Thailand to Cambodia).