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Huong Tra Hotel Ninh Binh

1A Road, Gian khau Street Ninh Binh, Vietnam

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Best day trip that lasts a morning

A travel blog entry by g4dginesi

20

... car to take us and two other fellow Backpackers around the sights. It was so worth it we got a boat only 2 foreigners to a boat or 5 smaller locals due the the weight of all the fat westerners. anyway the Tam cok river boat trip is on par with any of the other sights we've seen. The boat is rowed by a local and so at 7am theres only our two boats for a 1.5 hour round trip up the river in almost complete silence until ...

Not Just Monkey Business

A travel blog entry by mrcwoodsman

73

... situated on bikes, pairing riders with drivers we were off at about 8:15 am. With a couple breaks along the way we arrived in Ninh Binh Province and were driving down the lane to the old Bai Dinh Pagoda with the newer one quite visible in the near distance.I was quite excited about this trip on two counts. One I love the architecture of the temples and pagodas here as everyone probably knows by now, but also my friend Seb (short for Sebastian) was going. He is quite ...

A Walk In The Park

A travel blog entry by trockie

... The best part is when a worker walks by the gibbon cages and (thinking the worker is delivering food) they all start zooming/flying around their cages and SCREAMING like sirens going off. Let me tell you, the gibbons have got some lungs. Those things can scream and wail like crazy. It would scare the bejeezus out of me if I were walking through the jungle and they all got started up. I unfortunately did not bring ...

Easy Rider

A travel blog entry by trockie

... Please God, let it leave!

5:50 Who am I kidding? I can't go back to sleep. I'll just get up and get ready early. I go to the far end of the room and flick on the lights and look towards the dark form in the center of the ceiling. Whew, it's not a gecko, it's a hook anchored mid-celing for who knows what. The chirping must have been from some sort of bird on my balcony. Disaster averted.

I get ready and ...

Countryside cruising

A travel blog entry by stemaxc

21

After a convoluted journey from Halong City I was left with my Catalan companions on the pavement in Ninh Binh and I was more than a little bit confused. The write up in the Lonely Planet gave the impression of a small settlement set amongst picturesque paddy fields and dramatic karsts. I wasn't seeing any of that. It was dark, but there was no mistaking a very busy main road running through a decent sized urban town. We were definitely not going anywhere else so we went ...