Hi everyone, having left the rain in Hoi- An, we moved on to Hue, the old capital of Vietnam. But it also rained there - check out Mik's tent raincoat! Old capital was nice. After one night, we caught the (no-) sleeper bus to Ninh Binh. Kids slept well, although we had to peel Gabe off the roof after one particularly bumpy bump. NB was great - we spent all first day on push-bikes, riding the backroads and villages to Tam Coc (a terrestial equivalent to Halong Bay). Nice cruise along the waterway with several thousand other tourists, through caves to a turn-around point where the hard (but polite) sell kicked in, and we managed to escape with only a couple of large embroidered doilies. Next day we hired a human to drive us to Cuc
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