{"id":2709,"date":"2009-03-06T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T19:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2009-03-06T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T19:30:57","slug":"kayaking-in-ha-long-bay-is-more-than-an-indulgence-it-offers-vistas-not-reachable-by-other-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"Kayaking in Ha Long Bay is more than an indulgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2711\" title=\"kayaking-in-ha-long-bay-is\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/kayaking-in-ha-long-bay-is-150x105.jpg\" alt=\"kayaking-in-ha-long-bay-is\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kayaking-in-ha-long-bay-is-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/kayaking-in-ha-long-bay-is.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The setting cannot be more dramatic. Thousands of limestone peaks rise magically from crystalline emerald waters, dotted by islets and deep, mysterious caves.<\/p>\n<p>However to access all of them, conventional boat tours are not the best way, say both experienced and greenhorn kayakers after doing their thing in the famous Ha Long Bay, located in the Gulf of Tonkin, and in the running for adjudication as a natural world wonder&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pr-inside.com\/kayaking-in-ha-long-bay-is-r1098353.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The setting cannot be more dramatic. Thousands of limestone peaks rise magically from crystalline emerald waters, dotted by islets and deep, mysterious caves. However to access all of them, conventional boat tours are not the best way, say both experienced and greenhorn kayakers after doing their thing in the famous Ha Long Bay, located in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}