Ha Long Bay is one of the world’s greatest scenes of natural beauty. Turquoise waters, gigantic limestone outcrops, echoing caves and secluded bays. The great number of tourists who visit Vietnam (around 90%) will end up at Halong Bay, a huge stretch of coastline containing nearly 2′000 islands of varying size. Surrounding many of the islands are floating villages – small communities of locals who have probably never lived on solid ground.

Above is one of many floating schools to be found around the shores, flanked by school boats, the floating village’s equivalent to a school bus. If you can’t read the sign this construction was funded by the embassy of united kingdom through the national fund for vietnamese children.