Tam Coc & Area by Day

Images from our walk into Tam Coc.

Between the rice wine, all the rice fields, and seeing the workers in the rice fields, I was curious to learn more about the life cycle and agricultural practices around rice. Very interesting. Always rinse your rice, people!

Copied from my Tam Coc Mountain Bungalows Footprint (you can stop reading if you already checked out that one):

This place is 2 km from Tam Coc (pronounced Tam-Sock) town, in Ninh Binh province. The city of Ninh Binh is 10 km away. This land is stunning.

This is not a complaint but a fact: It's raining and has been for almost 2 weeks, with at least 2 more weeks forecast. Rainy season normally starts in the spring, around May. We're told a few times that the seasons have been shifting in the past few years, with the rainy season starting at least a month earlier, maybe more. This certainly seems to be the case. Any travel blog will predict Feb to be dry and sunny in Vietnam.

Rain will change our plans as we had a local river boat tour planned and also a 2 day cruise on Halong Bay near Hanoi. Most of the time we can hardly see the mountains. We are cold and wet. Everything is wet. Our clothing gets damp just sitting in our packs and nothing dries, including my sink-laundry. In 2 days it was exactly as wet as the day I washed it! It's a fine mist so umbrellas are useless. We do as much exploring as we can. There are a few clear-wheather spots each day, but not enough for us to commit to tours. We're willing to walk through the mist and rain, but not spend time and money on activities where we can't see anything.Read more