Where the river flows into Hong of Vietnam” – where the Red River (pink) and Po Lung streams (blue) meet, both flowing from the territory Kim Binh district, Yunnan province (China) to the territory the Lung Po, communal Asia Mu Sung, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai (Vietnam).

Copyright Lao Chai (Y Ty commune, Bat Xat district) is scheduled to quite famous for its mushroom house of Hani ethnic people – one of the ethnic minorities of Vietnam – lies at an altitude of 1500 meters above sea level.

The beautiful terraced fields like giant paintings by the “barefoot artist” Dao, Ha Nhi, Mongolia, the mountains here … Bat Xat created from hundreds of years.

Sedentary version of the Dao commune A Lu (Bat Xat) adjacent to newly formed borders Vietnam – China.

Located in southern Thailand, Phuket is estimated that more than hundred islands, large and small with the world famous tourist transmission such as: Phi Phi Islands, Phang Nga Bay or Mayya studio, which was chosen to return the movie “The Beach” with the participation of male amateur Leonardo Dicaprio.

Besides the beauty of the sea, Phuket with many tourists also bar all night activities, interesting cultural performances of those beautiful transsexual. Guests also had the opportunity to explore the unique architecture of the building temples or relaxing moments, settled on his nose Laemphomthep sunset.

Beautiful pictures of Phuket:

Mayya beach located on a small island surrounde

Blue sea, sitting on a boat also can see the fish

Wat Chalong, is the famous sacred and unique architecture of the 29 temples in Phuket.

Wat Chalong, built in 1837 to worship the two priests are honoring people: Set Chaem Luang Chuang and Luang. Two priests have also managed to end the violence of the tin miners in 1876. People here believe, to the temple and touch for hand sewing the monks here will be health

Numerous people come here to pray

Flowers bring beauty has a wild boast newly re-tender, pure to the strange.
Tithonia diversifolia grows less that knit together a single, crowded, extended into a layer of yellow flowers waves shove each other before the wind blew very solid throughout the Highland mountains.

Tithonia diversifolia yellow blooms on the way up field.
Tithonia diversifolia has brought a wild beauty, just soft, pure.

It felt good to get off a tourist bus and travel the way the Vietnamese do, it turns a boring journey into an experience, we had been getting so bored of tourist buses so we really enjoyed it! As for Hue, we spent our time drenched! We explored the citadel which was really interesting and went to the local pagoda but apart from that we didn’t really do much as the weather was so rubbish. We did however find an awesome little cafe that had great food and milky warm drinks! It was really popular with the locals and heaving with school kids after the school day had finished. We watched in amazement as 3 young boys, they can’t have been older than 8 or 9, sat and scoffed their faces, ordering dish after dish as if they were kings! It was so funny, they had about 10 dishes between them and were very serious about their dining experience! You would never get 9 year olds in a restaurant in England alone eating like that!

We then caught a night bus from Hue to Hanoi but were woken up at 5 am with the driver yelling “Ninh Binh” at the top of his voice! We were thinking about going there anyway and the bus journey was really uncomfy so we made a quick decision and rushed off. Luckily we managed to get a guest house for $2 to stay in for the rest of the night, we have never appreciated a bed so much!

Ninh Binh itself is not the most aesthetically pleasing towns, grey concrete buildings line the streets but it’s surrounding area is unbelievably beautiful! We are so glad we got off the bus!! We went to a place called tam coc where huge karsts tower above small rivers and rice paddies to form a stunning landscape. You can explore the area by a small rowing boat that travels along the river and through caves in the karsts. It’s truly spectacular. Our boat was rowed by a lovely lady who not only used her arms and hands but also her legs and feet, really clever!

The next day we decided to go to Cuc phong national park. We had met a girl from Canada the evening before and the three of us decided to go to the park on Motos. It was one of the highlights of Vietnam for us. The moto drivers took us to the park cross country, through all the rural towns and villages and past miles upon miles of crop land and hills. It was like a mini tour of rural Vietnam. On arrival at the park we went to the ‘primate rescue centre’ where we saw a variety of Gibbons and Langurs that were being rehabilitated back into the wild. We then went for a trek through the park without a guide, which was really fun as you could go where you wanted (within reason) and take your time to stop and view the wildlife! On our way back we stopped off for lunch where we had some Buffalo noodle soup!

The only downside to Ninh Binh was that it was freeeeezing (Lucy wore 6 layers), but the hotels amazing hot chocolate made the temperature a bit more bearable!

Our guide had got us to buy bags of sweets to give them ( great for their teeth ), not many adults about coz they all go into the fields and forests to work. Some women using sewing machines to make beautiful coulorful clothes. It was a greatly interesting walk. Pigs crossing the road, hens and chickens everywhere.

(Photo: New York Times)