Yesterday afternoon we took our trip mates came back in Hanoi. The two Australian girls went to their hotel and the Israeli couple came with us and another couple NLse it. Rooms enough and after arrival, we first have perched on our roof for a delicious beer. It's funny, you meet people and pulls out a few days very intensively and that creates an instant bond. Not a band that never breaks, but we have seen along the Ha Long Bay.
After everyone had been frost OPZ OEK we went to something "authenticity," to eat. It was a small stall where another Vietnamese guest ordered for us. That goes along the lines of "do only 2 chicken, 2 beef dishes, 1 dish pork, vegetables and rice. Most Vietnamese in Hanoi on the street seem to eat, it feels like it IIG. These are not restaurants but mini small plastic stools (if you're lucky a chair) and small plastic tables, all in children's size. The food came and the table was overloaded. So nice we had not eaten in Vietnam. Not sharp, spicy and delicious as varied. Smullen so. The rest of the avodn is spent on the rooftop to still to enjoy.
This morning the alarm went off. We had booked a bus to Ninh Binh. A village two hours drive from Hanoi to the south which has a beautiful setting. We had paid $ 5 per person, here a decent amount so that we would go with a tour bus, the Israelis went along. Then comes a guy who our 'collecting' and says that we need the taxi steps that we go to the bus station and there for the bus tickets are purchased. Not what we had agreed, namely that tickets cost less than 2 euros per person.
Our traveling companion as we say Nohar has her on her teeth and said clearly, no, if we continue with the tour bus or we get our money back. We zijnt eruggelopen to the hotel and have indicated that this was not the agreement. The manager of the tour bus company came later to help us, but we were of course all that business Sat The guys that we wanted to put on a taxi just had the tour booked full and we thought we could put on a bus and the rest of eht money into his own pocket to stabbing. All tour buses were by that time the city has been out. Uitiendelijk we have sought and received our money back. The guys from our hotel were so kind to help us arrange a reliable taxi to the bus station where we 45000 dong per person (less than 2 euros) itself bought tickets.
Bus stations are not comparable, there are no buses with numbers or something. The destinations are indicated, but there is at what you should have. At the moment we walked out we were surrounded by people who wanted to get us into their bus, after half a lap around the park, we own a tipsy woman and her husband helped us. The bus was fine and within 2 hours we were in Ninh Binh.
In the bus was another Englishman who temporarily lives with Vietnamese girlfriend on the way to Ninh Binh. So now we're back with 6 men and even have an interpreter 
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The rest of the day we had dinner and we are now just returned from a trip to a kind of National Nature Reserve where we rowed around 2 hours. Those women who have become heavy! It was a tourist attraction, but especially for the Vietnamese themselves. As we enter, we photographed 100 times. The trip run along high mountains and through various caves, it was ontettend nice and relaxing. At the end we still have a couple of times a rowing contest held with other boats and Nohar ... and I have been standing on the boat a "serenade" which brought the Vietnamese were quite the end. A delicious arrival in Ninh Binh and the prospect of dinner makes me so happy!
