I went to Ninh Binh with Linda, whom I met in a homestay in Sapa. We found a hotelroom, where we bargained a lot for the price, but it was not worth it, not even at the price, we ended up paying, since it wasn't a nice room, the toilet door couldn't close, it smelled and the lady, wholived there, kept touching my face and shoulders, which was really weird. The next day we rented some bicycles and went to the "Tam Coc cave", where we enjoyed the amazing scenery from a boat. the landscape was quite similar to "Ha Long Bay", except fr the fact that there down here weould be rice on each side of the boat during the rainy season. But even without the green rice on both sides it was a beautiful trip with limestone cliffs on both sides. When we got to the end, there were some women in some boats trying to sell us things, that we did not want to buy. Among other things, they wanted us to buy a banana for the lady, who was rowing our boay, instead we gave her one of our bananas, but neither she or the other women seemed happy about that. When we got near the shore, the woman started saying "tip, tip", but neither Linda or I wanted to give her extra money, especially not when she was asking for it. After this we went to see a pagoda in a cave, "Bich Duong", where there was a pagoda in the bottom, and then we walked up some steps to a pagoda in a cave, afterwards we walked through the cave and saw a sign saying "climb", so we climbed the limestone cliffs, me in peeptoe ballerinas, but that should not stop me from seeing what was on the top, and it was deffinitely worth the climb.
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