Ninh Binh Close to Buddha

You recognize that you are travelling and not on vacation after stepping out of the bus after a 11h ride and a night of 3h of medicore sleep to arrive at another amazing place. This place is Ninh Binh, the exact region where the movie King Kong was made.

Ninh Binh is a city in the Red River Delta and has a special landscape being completely flat except the limestone mountains. Those mountains appear mystical especially in the dusty evenings.



The flat land is used a lot for rice fields.



 In the region there are a lot of temples which show the high spiritually of the vietnamese culture. 

In every cave you can find at least on altar. The temples are mostly build into the mountains away from the city to encapsulate from the crowds and the noise.



Spirituality and Religion plays a big role in Vietnam. Temples are visited frequently, worshipped and new temples are still build. 
In our experience the visit of a temple is a daily break and meditation for a lot of people. People we asked work 10h a day 7 days a week.


In the region we went to some rural areas and again there are animals walking around everywhere.




On our way to the train station we came across a very local Saturday evening market. It was so big and crowed, we needed to ask whether it's a special occasion, but it wasn't. It was hard to communicate, but we found some friends.




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