DAY 6
HANOI (Vietnam) to THANH DONG HUMANITY CENTRE (Vietnam)
Monday April 11th, 2011
TODAYS MILEAGE – 92 miles or 148 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 6210 miles or 9994 kilometres
We're off to Ha Long Bay. 
The five of us booked ourselves onto an overnight stay on a junk, on Ha Long Bay. The facilitated the need to climb aboard a twenty seater bus and travel the 3½ hours to the port at Bai Chay.
About ½ way through the journey, we pulled up at the Thanh Dong Humanity Centre, a cereamic factory located in the commune of Binh Duoan, Quang Ninh Province. It is advertised as having the aim of training the disabled free of charge, creating jobs and social policies for them.
In all reality, it is a huge commercial enterprise that is basically a tourist trap, with prices to match. For example, a can of coke was 20,000 Dong (92 cents AUD), where as earlier that morning I paid 16,000 Dong (73 cents AUD) in Hanoi, for two cans of coke.
Whilst it was a great time to stretch the legs, I was less than impressed with the joint blatantly being a rip off. It would also be fair to say that I simply abhore such places and try to steer well clear of them.
After about an hour and a half, we were back on the road, headed to Ha Long Bay.