Trang AN Hotel Ninh Binh

Saturday 24th October - Ninh Binh<br><br>In a clever bit of marketing the owner of the hotel gave us a guide book of the local area to look at as we ate breakfast. This area of Vietnam had attracted us to visit as it is supposed to be like the area around Guilin in China that we visited and enjoyed so much. After seeing the standard of driving whilst we have been tripping around the country we decided against hiring our own bike and instead hired a couple of guys to chauffeur us around ...

... a dorm in China. Once we checked into our guest house, with plastic wallpaper, a long narrow building as so typical of architecture in Vietnam, we went looking around the town.<br>The town is fairly small but has the main north-south highway 1A running slap bam down its<br>middle, so trucks and buses honking the entire time and 1000 scooters zipping about. Theres not a lot to be done, no shopping outlet, supermarket or restaurants just small eateries. We had ran out of money so our mission ...

... me anything. After Hanoi, that was quite refreshing, to say the least :) I also passed not one other Westerner.<br><br>Hired a motorbike and driver for the day yesterday (a very extravagant $10) and went off to see Tam Coc, and was rowed through a series of caves, very beautiful (although not so much as Halong Bay), and an assortment of other local sights, mainly temples. Climbed quite a hill at Hoa Lu (the old capital of Vietnam), hundreds of steps up to a fab view point ...

... gegessen. Was fur eine Gastfreundlichkeit!<br>Letztlich sind wir nach Hoa Lu gefahren, eine ehemalige Hauptstadt von Vietnam. Dort habe iche eine Bergspitze geklettert, um die Aussicht zu geniessen. Wunderschon !<br>der folgende Plan: Sud Vietnam und Muine.<br>LG<br>Cyril<br><br>Hi folks,<br>we finally arrived in Ninh Binh. The first day I was a bit sick and it was raining. Therefore we stayed in the hotel and discovered a bit of the city of Ninh Binh.<br>The following day we rent a ...

... lollies with us. Lights went out after our dinner stop &amp; then it was lots of tossing &amp; turning &amp; little sleeping!!<br><br>We arrived to it being still dark &amp; 3 other people hopped off as well. ( they were from Austria). A moto driver showed up &amp; had a hotel card so Nath &amp; I decided to go with him after realising he could ...

... cycled the 20km to the centre of the park (passing the "Big Tree" which is... a big tree and the Cave of Prehistoric Man which is where human graves and tools were found dating back over 7500 years!). We then hiked through the jungle... There were LOADS of bugs and mosquitoes (as expected but still minging!). We stopped to see the 1000 year old tree but decided against the longer route which included the Ancient Tree (as we ...

... I hung out with a couple of English girls, Sarah and Louisa... at the last stop they indulged in some parasailing together and almost drowned when the boat let them drop into the water under the parasail and they were stuck under water for a while.... this trip so far has made my fear of water worse not better!!<br>That night, due to a booking issue, had to change accomodation from the hostel into a nearby hotel.... then... had a fab night out...<br>There was a ...

... paesaggi. Uno spettacolo d'acqua in cui si riflettevano alte rocce sparse qua e la, migliaia di barchette di pescatori che remavano con i piedi o utilizzando piccole palette di legno... che spettacolo indescrivibile. siamo stanchi e un bel po' arrossati dal sole, ma ci riposeremo dopo cena. Alle 22.00 con un pulman viaggiando di notte partiremo da Ninh bin per raggiungere la citta' di Hue domani mattina.

... a petrol station for tea and cigarettes to shelter for a while. When we realised it wasnt going to stop, we all got back on our bikes and rode on. Our guide then got us a little lost (whoops), unfortunately this mistake was to take us to Highway 1A (the main road traveling from North to South of Vietnam, always busier up north) OH NO!! Sedges bike decides to stall not once but 3times as lorries, Motos, and cars are thundering past splashing the water from ...

Stayed at a great family run hotel. Everyone was very helpful and helped organized some great touring on motobikes with great driver/guide. (I beleive a full day of touring was between 10 and 12$. The hotel is at 31, Luong Van Tuy Road, Ninh Binh Town - tel: 030-3872439 e-mail: tbhotelnb@yahoo.com