Tam Cốc-Bích Động (by night)

Dave and I took a three-day motorcycle trip throughout Northern Vietnam. The four-hour journey started on Sunday took us south from Hanoi to Tam Cốc (or "three caves"). We had a rather hilarious night drinking "special water" with some tour bus drivers, a "very important" cop from Ninh Binh and a Dutch bar owner followed by a rather scenic and peaceful day along the Ngo Dong River.

The two-hour rickety boat ride down the Ngo Dong took us through the most incredible landscape dominated by rice fields, massive karst outcrops and through caves (with overhangs only about 2m above the water). Our boat rower, a woman in her early 50s, tried to swindle us into buying some of her embroidery but we had been warned.

I'll let the photos do the talking.


plotting

view from the road



I made a friend while DMS napped.


A "average-sized" Dutchman, a well-known cop who wouldn't stop hitting on me/making me drink, and the people's champion, David Marshall Stout.