Afternoon adventures.

We left the boat ride after a recoup in the aircon cafe and decided to go see the floating village, it was about 19 kms away so took a bit to get there and then it was a bit of a wild goose chase. I put the wrong location in the maps so instead of taking us home we took a 20 klm detour. Go home with sunburnt feet and knees.

Luckily our host made us a delicious lunch and had some cold beers for us when we did eventually get back.

After a rest in the aircon and a nap we ventured out again to find the Bird Conservation Park. Nice ride on the bike through Tam Cox and along the rice fields.

Nice gardens there and obviously a big venture, it was pretty quiet while we were there but they have the capacity for a lot of people. Lots of families there enjoying the cooler time of the day.

We had another boat ride to see the birds. Lots of Herons, Black and white storks, Asian open billed stork, Spoonbills and lots of Egrets

You’re supposed to be quiet on this trip but the Vietnamese people have no concept of that and luckily the birds didn’t really care, obviously used to them. Way more birds there than we were expecting, nesting quite close to the water.

Then off to dinner in Ninh Binh. Like I said Ninh Binh is quite a bit bigger than I imagined but we found the restaurant our hostess recommended. Goat is the meat of choice here so we had to try it. Story fried and sweet and sour. The stir fry was the winner.

All the lights are on down near the river and it’s really pretty. You’d think there would be lovely fancy restaurants with that view, but they were mostly take away places.Read more