We took a weekend trip just two hours south of Hanoi to Ninh Bình, an area of mountainous limestone rising out of rice fields. It is quite a beautiful, if not magical place (often referred to as Ha Long Bay on land), but the air pollution was as bad as Hanoi’s due to the area’s cement factories and all the burning that takes place after a rice harvest. This is the sad reality: beautiful to the eye with deceptive fog and detrimental to one’s health.
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