Halong Bay, Ninh Binh and Hue

Halong Bay was just as we were told: Gorgeous! Just like the pictures! No wonder they named this Unesco World Heritage: hundreds of high mountains that rise up from the sea, a beautiful and peaceful scenery. We took a boat for the day to explore the landscape, go to the caves and have a swim on a deserted beach by a rock, magnificent.
After that we had a similar experience in Ninh Binh, same same but different (the typical, and only, phrase the Vietnamese can say This time we go with a tiny little boat for two persons along the river in between the rice fields, you can feel that you are in the countryside, everything is less developed, maybe that's what makes it so special too. Again, it is difficult to desribe its beauty, you can always take a look at the pictures on my facebook.
The trip to get there was a bit more difficult though, trying to take a bus when millions of Vietnamese pull at your shirt to take you on their motorbike or taxi, to drop you off at the wrong bus station, to try to ask when there is a bus to the people at the desk who do not understand a word of English, not even the word 'bus'... sometimes it gets quite frustrating, but when you think about the way people grow up here and there past, you can not blame them... then we took a night bus to Hue, the beds where just big enough for a Vietnamese person, so we were sleeping with the upper part of our body in the hallway, travelling can't always be pleasure...
Hue is very beautiful, we have visited the royal palace today, for which you need a whole afternoon to check out all the different temples and gardens, really beautiful! You can still see the results of the Vietnam war, they are reconstructing the whole thing, but it still is very impressive!