Kinh Do Hotel Ninh Binh

... i handen och ska hjalpa till och paddla. " Jaha" blev mitt svar och det var bara att borja paddla. <br> <br> Omgivningarna var nastan lite overkligt, hoga klippor skjuter rakt upp fran vattnet och bildar som en mur langst med floden. Ett par hus fanns utspridda inne i denna haftiga miljo, hellackert. Nar vi var dar var det ingen sasong for riset, lite trist for da ar det helt gront dar allt vatten flyter forrutom en kanal for batarna, synd att ...

Everyone we had met on the tour was heading to Hue but we thought it was to far south of the<br>country to travel and that we were missing some of the north. Only having 30 days in Vietnam, so it is very hard to spread your time as there is so much to explore.To get to Ninh Binh you can either catch an open tour bus , public bus or train from Hanoi.<br>We went for the train option as it was only 2.5 hours long. Ninh Binh is south west of Hanoi, we read that it is meant to be very similar to ...

... of about 6 young boys were running alongside me for a while - they knew a few pertinent words of English, ie. hello, yes, no and money. One particularly cheeky boy held out a hand and said ''5'' - obviously suggested that 5 thousand dong would be a good sum of money to give him - so instead I gave him a high five and told him to get out of it, and asked why wasn't he in school. They thought I was hilarious.....<br><br>In the hour or so that I was out, not one person tried to ...

... und Sylvie hat ein bisschen die Stadt besichtigt.<br>Am Tag darauf war das Wetter viel besser und wir haben einen Motorrad gemietet um die Umgebung zu entdecken. Zunachst sind wir nach Van Long Natural Reserve gefahren. Dort sind wir auf einer kleinen Barke durch das Wasser gefahren. Wir waren ganz allein und da und dort waren einige kalkartigen Bergspitzen. Fantastisch!<br>Danach sind wir nach dem Dorf von Keng Ga gefahren. Dort haben wir bei einem Einwohner Bier getrunken und ...

Arrived in Ninh Binh at 5.30am after 12 1/2 hours on the sleeper ( Not!!) bus. We had the top bunks at the back of the bus &amp; the air con was freeezing &amp; the ride even bumpier than usual - the roads were really bad!!! Spent the first couple of hours talking to Robert from Slovenia &amp; then the monks on the other side of Nathan wanted to share ...

... food before getting on the 8.30pm Sleeper bus to Nha Trangh. It was $9 US for a 9 hour trip. We had seats on the top bunks - small pod like reclined beds. Alright for me but bigger westerners would have trouble fitting!!<br> <br> Innoviet Travel Company<br>203 Pham Ngu Lao St<br>HCMC<br>www.innoviet.com<br>E Mail sales@innoviet.com

... I wandered down to the central market and explored the stalls. Supper that evening was at a restaurant by the river... I thoroughly enjoyed a dark beer that is hard to find in Vietnam and was such a nice change!<br><br>On Tuesday we were all awoken very early (4 or 5am) by a marching band procession on the street in front of the hotel! After breakfast we got on a boat and visited the Cai Rang Floating Market. It was different that the other ...

... cucumber, tomato and the deliciously prepared elephant fish, rolling it up and then dipping in a superb fish sauce ... delicious! Add a few local beers and pleasant company ... The following morning the guy from the homestay took us round the local village (at 06h00!!) - really a plus. Then we left by boat to meet up with the rest of the group on the main river and transfer to the boat going to the floating market ... ...

... next two. The hotel was not the best but it was cleanish. It was situated on the river with a floating deck for dinner however the smell of the river, the mangy cats and the staff peeing of the side rails into the river and hoiking into the river while we ate did not make for a good meal! We decided to bed early with the ethos that the sooner we slept the sooner we were out of there!

... for an ordeal with the taxi/bike people. It was $3 for a very slow 2 minute ride to the 'bus station', that was really just a petrol station outside the airport gates. Demands of 500,000 dong for the bus ride to our next destination were bargained down to 200,000 for both of us. I did see locals tickets later and learnt they paid 42,000. We'd been swizzled but not speaking the language it's hard to argue. Erica was none too happy but I reminded her we're only been swizzled ...