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Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh March 7th 2016

Our guide for today’s tour was a bit late. It was a big group today. Like last week, we were hustled onto a small shuttle and driven a few blocks to a full sized tour bus. The driver was practically pushing me aboard with worried words about police. What else is new in this city of six million. All aboard, we inched our way through traffic to the edge of town to pick up the autoroute south. Once across the river, we passed miles and miles of rice paddies on this vast plain. Our first stop was in Hoag Lu, the first capital of Vietnam, circa 1010. All that remains is a temple. The other buildings, including the palace, had been floated down the river to Ha Noi. This temple was restored in the 18th century ... read more
Hanoi Apartment building
Hanoi Temple Figure
Hanoi Temple Carving

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh March 4th 2016

To write these notes I am lying on my bed in the Park’s Guest House inside a mosquito net. Inevitably I am reminded of my long-ago days in Yola in Nigeria, where large insects beat against the netting. So far I haven’t seen a mosquito here. Thuy warned us this is a “basic” hotel, although it is about the same as last night’s hotel - without the pretentiousness. This morning Thuy was so uncertain that the Duc Tai Hotel staff could prepare a western breakfast that she was planning to cook eggs for each of us to our taste. Carol said that was ridiculous – the western way was that if a lot of people had to eat breakfast at the same time, they all ate the same food, in this case scrambled eggs. She even ... read more
Ho Chi Minh Road
Rice fields near Minh Son
Rice farmer and villagers

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh January 16th 2016

Tam Coc to Cuc Phuong, première journée tous seul sur le vélo avec un petit 45 kilomètres les adieux sont fait la carrière solo peu commencer ! (45 Km ) Journée dans le parc national de Cuc Phuong, première halte devant la production d'un film pour le cinéma vietnamien sur l'occupation française, le rôle du Français jouée par un anglais et celui des Guyanés par des Keyen, rigolo est sympathique. Par la suite petit trek dans le parc naturel ainsi qu'une quarantaine de kilomètres à vélo ! ( 40km ) Cuc Phuong to citadelle dinasty Ho, une petite journée de vélo prévu qui va ce r'allonger un peu pour cause je me suis quelques peu perdu mais cela n'ajoute qu'une vingtaine de kilomètres il faut faire avec ^^ ! Arriver dans la ville puis direction la ... read more
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Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh January 14th 2016

Nim Binh et une ville situé à environs 100 Km au Sud de la capital rien en faire en soit dans cette ville mais à quelques kilomètres de là ont y trouve de magnifique paysage ainsi que de quoi ce loger ! Nous voilà donc rendu à Tam coc une petite ville qui n'existe que de part le tourisme, rien de fantastique ! Mais après une nuit bien reposante ont prend les vélo et ont part tous d'abord pour Trang An pour un jolie tour de barque d'environs 3 heures proposer par l'industrie touristique, malgré cela c'est magnifique comme endroit, au programme de l'aprem ce sera la plus grande pagode du Vietnam (Bai Dinh) qui est très ressente puis du vélo encore du vélo... Le lendemain c'est le jours ou nos chemin ce sépare Arthur part ... read more
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Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh April 9th 2015

Next stop, we are now 100km South of Hanoi. We took the night train from Lao Cai to Hanoi...dropped the bags at the hotel by 6am, took a shower, took a nice breakfast...and by 7.30am, we were back on a mini-bus, for a 12 hours excursions. I may never run 100 meters fast....but for the long run, we are trained for it...seriously! This is a first for Tiffany and Leslie. I did the boat ride back in 1998. Back than, it was just a 2-3 hours drive by car down to the boat landing, 90 minutes on the boat, and back to Hanoi...a good half day on not amazing roads. Even, I still keep great souvenirs of this place. Today, we do the grand tour! We started by visiting the grounds of the former Imperial City. ... read more
And one more little boat ride for our little family..
We are always taker for a little bicycle ride...
King Dinh Temple

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh January 13th 2015

Apres, de longues heures de routes, nous sommes arrives a Ninh Binh, au lodge de la compagnie d'Ethnic travel. Le lendemain matin, nous avons visitee les montagnes de Ninh Binh egalement appelee la baie d'along terrestre, en effet elle se caracterise par de grandes montagnes de marbres vegetalisees et isolees au pied desquelles s'etendent des lacs 9payage similaire a celui de la baie d'along. Nous avons pedalees parmi ces merveilles, classes a l'unecso et dejeune chez l'habitant (Notre hote qui a egalement gueri chloe, atteinte d'une severe otite, avec une mixture de gingembre et d'alcool de riz appliquee sur le visage, les bras, les mains et le dos a l'aide d'une piece percee. Nous avons serieusement doutes de ce remede qui a toutefois fait ces preuves quelques heures plus tard) puis nous avons repris la voiture ... read more
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Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh » Tam Coc December 7th 2014

VIETNAM Now into our 6th week of traveling the norm is staying quick on your feet and ready to move sharpish. We have seen a seventh wonder of the world but it does not compare to the beauty that Vietnam holds in her smile, people or atmosphere. From Hanoi to Halong Bay back to Hanoi, sleeper bus jam packed to Ninh Binh with some pushy locals showing us who’s country were in. on second thoughts they would more likely be Asian tourists as we have not seen any badness from any Vietnamese. Ninh Binh was a shock to start with, getting dropped off at the side of a road, using sign language dancing techniques to get around and Pati being felt up by the local restaurant (female) owner adds to the experience and makes us feel ... read more
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Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh » Tam Coc October 18th 2014

Je joins les photos et la contribution de Simon ! Bizzz Laurence ------------- Salut tout le monde ! Je me décide enfin à écrire ces quelques lignes et comme Laurence a très bien décrit nos différents points de chutes, je n'ai pas grand chose à rajouter quant à notre parcours. Je vais donc principalement vous faire part des éléments qui ne sont peut-être pas essentiels pour la compréhension de notre itinéraire, mais qui permettront de vous faire partager un peu plus notre expérience. Premièrement, ces quelques lignes ont été difficiles pour moi. Non par manque de choses à raconter, mais parce que j ai entrepris cet exercice dans notre premier sleeping bus vietnamien, dans la campagne de phong nha. Un sleeping bus vietnamien, c'est un bus classique doté de trois rangées de deux étages de couchettes, ... read more
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Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh January 30th 2014

Geo: 20.25, 105.98We spend New Year in Ninh Binh. We arrived in the afternoon from Cuc Phuong, The town was really quite. We had a quick look around to try to rent motorbikes but couldn't see anything so we got one from the hotel. We had to have dinner at the hotel because everywhere else was closed! We stayed downstairs drinking beers and at around 11pm the boss came with a bottle of rice wine to toast the new year. After a couple of shot it was time for us to make our way to see the fireworks. To find them we just had to follow the flow of scooters. It was unbelievable the number of scooters carrying at leats 2 people each (and a maximum of 5). The fireworks were supposed to start at midnight ... read more
scooters craziness
burning fire
street fire

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Ninh Binh January 27th 2014

Geo: 20.25, 105.98We went to Tam Coc to spend the Tet away from the madness of Hanoi. It worked perfectly. Tam Coc is also known as the terrestrial Halong Bay which mean rocks spike the landscape. We cycled through rice field to reach the different sites. We stopped at a temple build at the foot of a rock. The temple itself was nothing special but we went up the stairs behind it to reach a temple build in a cave. We were about to walk back down when we notice we could go around that temple up few stairs into a huge cave with some statues of Buddha and then even further to the top of the rock. I guess the spikes are about 80 to 100 meters high so you get a great view. THE ... read more
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Elfi on her bicycle
people around here are .... small




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