Ninh Binh province in Vietnam comes in an easy to love package – rice paddies and placid river hemmed in by limestone hills, majestic caves, verdurous forest, ancient ruins, majestic temples and majestic cathedrals. Ninh Binh is a perfect day tour from Hanoi city because it is just 2.5 – 3 hours away by bus, car or train.  Youn will …

Limestone hills soaring like sentries above bleak and barren bogs and wide expanse of rice fields welcome me. The land here is a sea of olive-green dominated by these gorgeous mammoths so ancient that it dates back to the forgotten ages of the earth’s beginning. Time seems to stand still, and only the sound of the river flowing, the cooing …

We were winding past jungle-clad karts limestone massif and honey- colored rice fields.  It is winter season in Northern Vietnam; local farmers with sun-kissed skin till their farms, domesticated ducks meander on the winding streams, water buffaloes graze the vast pastoral lands, while the cold breezes permeate the bucolic atmosphere.   We are thrusting back time to the mountains of …