Hanoi - Day 4

This will be last posting for the vacation I have in Hanoi. On the last day, we have ourself a day tour to Tam Coc and Hoa Lu. Tam Coc means three caves, which took about 2 hours drive from Hanoi. As usual, the place is so crowded like what we have in Halong Bay. But for this time the small boat is fulling up the river instead of big junks (vessel) as what we see in Halong Bay.

Lady in blue

Small boat ready to fetch tourist

One of the shot I like

We seated in a bot that are rowed by two local persons in Hoang Long river. The mother and son who rowed us in a small boat to see the first limestone mountains that run along the riverwaty for several kilometres. It is not an easy job to rowed the boats as the whole journey took almost 2 hours to complete.

Tam Coc is a place for photo hunters

We cruise along three caves and along the riverbay, you could see water rice planted. The river trip is so wonderful for photo hunters like myself as all are created by wind and water from a legend of time.

Entering one of the caves.

Limestone mountains

Entering another cave again

Hoa Lu is very near to Tam Coc, is the relics of ancient capital of Hoa Lu. It is just another temple for me.

Enjoy!

My leg trying to lay down on the boat and enjoy the scenery

A trip to Hanoi is definitely memorable for me as Tam Coc and Halong Bay is such a beauty of nature. Hope that place will stay beauty and pure and will not over developed as I could see the place has been more and more commercialize.

For the rest of the photos, please click the following thumbnails.