Thanh Binh Hotel Ninh Binh
31 Luong van Tuy Road Ninh Binh, Vietnam
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Hours on a Ped and a Ride down the River
Day 1 28/02/11
We arrived in Ninh Binh at about 1:30pm and drove past the road that the hotel we wanted to stay in was on (a lucky spot as there is no map of Ninh Binh in either of our guidebooks) but the bus driver wouldn't stop (despite letting all the Vietnamese people get off at random points) and continued driving to the bus station. When …
Limestone rocks and rice paddies
What we had in store was a pretty interesting bus ride. How they fit so many people on things of transportation I'll never know. Three people to 2 seats, people sitting on little plasic chairs in the center isle... Luckily nobody needed to join us in our seats.
Ninh Binh is said to be similar to Ha Long bay but with rice paddies …
Ninh Binh
We arrived in Ninh Binh at 5am, it was raining, cold and almost dark so we weren't happy bunnies!!! We checked into the first guest house we found, $12 a night but it was really nice. We went back to bed for a few hours as neither of us slept very well on the overnight bus from Hoi An, the beds were TINY.
We woke up a few hours later to …
Out of Saigon
My first day back in Nha Trang I run into a street vendor who remembered me from last year. The first words out of her mouth were: "you're fat now." Then she asked me to buy some cigarettes or candy from her box. Someone needs to teach her how to be a better salesperson.
Let me clarify this weight thing. First of all, I am not fat! I am …
Ninh Binh
So we left Hanoi after our lovely trip to Halong Bay and made our way by bus to Ninh Binh!!! We arrived at about 10pm after a bus journey from hell, we were shoved from one bus to another then onto another and what should of only taken about 2hrs eventually took close to 4.
As soon as the bus dropped us off at the corner of the road (we …



