Trang An

We stopped for 40 minutes at the Trang An, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Had it not been rainy and windy we would have gone on the 2.5-3 hour sampan paddle through the river with its surrounding rice fields, caves and pagodas. It is sometimes referred to as an internal Ha Long Bay (another UNESCO World Heritage site) which has the same karst rock formations jutting out of the ocean instead of the land and river. We learned that archaeological digs in the area have determined paleolithic, neolithic and agrarian societies going back over 30,000 years starting with cave dwellers and changing as the land elevation dropped and then rose again.Les mer