El maravilloso viaje de Tobi a Vietnam

I was so unbelivavle glad to be back in Ninh Binh after all the stress in Phong Nha. As I arrived at noon I decided to make a small detour to see Van Long, another of our project sites.
So it struck me even harder when we arrived in Van Long and they told us that we cannot proceed to Cuc Phuong as it was flooded.
I have never ever cursed to so badly in my life (and this means definitly something ;))
But fortunately I met our local program supervisor Catherine and her assistent Dong, who wanted to go back as well.
So we made a huge detour to and went to the other side of the mountain to approach the village from behind.
This worked well and it was even a kind of magical feeling to ride on the back of a motorbike on a deserted vietnamese country road into the sunset.
Okay, it was magical until this particular herd of cow appeared and Dong had to dogde hard with the motorbike...
Unfortunately we were way too fast and so fell down.
Now my left knee (yes, the one which always gets hurt ;)) looks like a battlefield, I as well managed to get burned by the exhaust pipe on my right leg, so at least the pain is more or less evenly distributed :)

But we were still quite lucky it could have been worse...

Today I said my final goodbye to Tilo and the rest of the center (monkeys included) and took the bus to Hanoi. Okay, it took me more than two hours, because everyone had still some incredibly urgent work for me to do before I leave :)
Now I am waiting for my train to Sapa, where I will do 3 days of trekking in the mountains till I head back to Hanoi to fly out on Saturday to Bangkok.