Ninh Binh

Ninh Bin is in the north of Vietnam, southeast of Hanoi. The region is very nice with its mountains and their limestone formations. It's possible to visit caves and go on a boat trip through he rocky mountains. We went to different places during 1 day by motorbike which is an easy and good way to see a lot of the landscape.
The weather here in the north is very different to this one we had before. Here it's very foggy, rainy and quite cold!! Well, after more than a month of sun and heat, it's ok to have a change.

Tam Coc: On the boat trip we went through caves and surrounding moutains, along the river are a lot of rice fields (as everywhere here in Vietnam, it's full of them).

A temple which is half built inside a cave and also in the middle of rice fields.

After climbing up to one of the mountains we had great view of the landscape; the river with the boats were we where before and the mountains in the middle of the rice fields. It's nice to see the mountains covered with fog, but if it's clear, the view must even be better.

Also Fredi had fun during the trip, only one dangerous moment he had to go through... To go up to the mountain, he had to pass through the mouth of the dragon who controls the entrance to the temple. Good for Fredi that the dragon just had finished his lunch, so he wasn't hungry anymore and he let Fredi go his way.