Being a university student, I didn't have the chance to take a vacation as early as others.
However, the experience was amazing ,especially when I visited Tràng An and Bái Đính.
Please look into my photo album (click the link below) for the pictures.
The whole trip took me about a half month (1 week and 5 days).
Half of the time was spent at my uncle's home in Hải Dương.
Since it was a country side, there were not many kind of activities.
But living with my long distance relatives living in a Northern culture (I'm from the South), I've learnt many things about their culture, their business... which is kind of different form mine (will share them in the next entries).
After spending 1 week laying my ass of while doing nothing (lucky for me that I brought my laptop, no internet, though) I came back to Hải Phòng city and stayed at my aunt's house.
Sadly, I didn't go anywhere except going for a walk along the river side in the neighborhood because my cousin went to school and he had to take extra classes until 8PM.
I just simply surfed the internet and played with my laptop at that point.
After all, we'd planned to went to some place (I didn't know exactly where) on friday and saturday.
On friday, we went to Đồ Sơn beach.
I was disappointed, you can't say it's beautiful no matter how many times you look at it.
The sea water was BROWN, and by brown, I means muddy brown.
It was as if we went to a giant puddle but with more people swimming with us.
There also wasn't any sunshine at all, so after swimming for only for 5 minutes, both my father and me went back to our seat and took a nap,had some snacks instead and we went home 45 minutes later.
But saturday morning's trip was completely different.
It was the trip in which I took the most pictures.
The river was so clear that you could almost see it's bottom.
You can also use the extras paddle on the the boat to row for fun (except when we went inside the caves, I rowed during the whole trip).
I don't want to describe anything more because I think my writing is not good enough to describe the beautifulness of its, it's better for you to look at my pictures.
The afternoon's trip was okay, maybe because I tend to like exploring nature instead of visiting temples.
I say it because the Bái Đính is considered the largest complex of Buddhist temples.
Not counting the giant statue, there more the 10000 mini statue laid inside the wall along the hall.
For your information, if you want to put a statue in there and have your name written with under it, you have to pay 50 million dong (more than 2200 dollars).
It was nothing more than a normal sightseeing for me, but I still managed to take some pretty nice picture, though.
The pictures I've uploaded are just the ones I think beautiful the most.
If you want, I'll upload a full album and send you a link.
Hope you like them.
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