Tam Coc ("Three Caves") is also known to tourists as "Halong Bay on the rice paddies". You can go on a row boat tour of the three caves (the Ngo Dong river flows through them), the longest of which is over 120m and nearly pitch-dark in the middle.

Olympus OM1, Tamron 24mm  f2.5, Velvia

© Dylan Sutton, 2000