so i'm gonna say vietnam is gonna be up here in terms of my favorite countries of all time this
has been such an amazing trip here and just the fact that we've eaten all this great food we saw
some amazing cities some amazing towns some amazing nature but nothing
nothing has been quite like what we're seeing now i never want to leave forever
well we left the big city of hanoi for a very peaceful and beautiful countryside so many
people recommended that we come here this place is called min bin oh my goodness i can't wait
to show it to you so ninh binh is about an hour and a half drive from hanoi people call this the
inland ha long bay or the dry halong bay can you see why look at these mountain cliffs this is wild
what do you want to call them i guess cliffs but i don't we're going to climb that one over there
like way up there well that's going to be fun are you ready so we've come over to an area called mua
caves and i think it's easy to see it's a very beautiful spot just so you know it's our last
day here in the country and yeah i know the weather isn't so good though now you might
notice that if you've been following along that we look a little different we're wearing sweaters
it's actually like if you're in canada you might laugh at us for complaining about the temperature
at the moment but we've been in the dominican republic for like eight months or something like
that so 19 degrees feels really chilly well this is uh both beautiful and a little bit terrifying
i'm touching the ceiling it's funny because when i did research about this area it's called mua
caves and i didn't see any pictures of caves so i thought it was really funny but the first thing
you do when you get here is actually come inside the actual mua cave wow i love that i called it
the ceiling like this is the rocks why did i why did i call it a ceiling it's how low it is a roof
this is the roof oh my god this is enormous so i was wondering if we'd see caves today and if
we did i just didn't think they'd be this low huh i think we're actually going to do a few
caves today spoiler alert for the rest of the video wow we are just a few minutes in we've
really just started and we're already surrounded by mountains and greenery and cliffs and it's just
gonna say stunning beautiful i'm gonna use all the same adjectives today but wow so we're heading to
the top of the mountain i think we pointed it out before and there's 486 stairs to get there
we've got up about 20 so far 20 down not out of breath at all huh no not a lot well i'd say we're
maybe 20 of the way i don't know ambitious well i'll tell you for sure you're gonna need to be in
some decent shape to do this definitely better than us yeah this is always when i i think i'm
in okay shape and i do with something like this to climb and i'm like oh i'm not we
also have not been exercising much since we got to vietnam because it's been a whirlwind
i gotta say right now i'm super appreciative that it's not a hot day i can't imagine doing
this in like 30 degree weather oh my gosh oh it's hard enough in 19.
i take everything i said back you need to be in
really good shape so basically well i guess one thing is true like the opposite of us these stairs
are really steep good thing it's ridiculously beautiful up here though because it is distracting
because i mean well right now i'm thinking about i'm tired again but when i'm not we are getting to
look at the view out there oh my look at look at that i'm so out of breath that i don't know if i
can tell you how exciting this is look at that view wow this is wild you can see this river
slowly making its way through these lime stone cliffs i've never seen visuals like this in my
life we've been in the philippines before but this is totally different isn't it i know even
the difference in how long bay and this is that you have this winding river going through the
cliffs like how does this even happen hopefully this gives you guys an idea of just how steep yeah
this is these stairs it's like almost vertical huh short people beware short people beware we did it
i think we made it to the top officially i think this is not well i really really hope it's tough
look where we came from so earlier in the video we were down way down there on that little
walkway and now here we are here we are with this crazy view it's raining a little bit hopefully
it just stays like this because it's just kind of dripping not like full-on rain but wow wow wow wow
it's gonna be a lot of wilds today so if you're wondering what moa cave stands for it actually
means the dancing caves i like that name yeah it goes back to something like i think it's the
13th century there was a king that came here and there's dancing ladies in the caves that performed
for him so that's why i became the dancing cape this is also by the way our unesco world heritage
site i think you can see why yeah i think you can easily see why one little fun fact we're not
gonna get into history too much but apparently uh when the mongolians used to attack vietnam this is
where a lot of the vietnamese people hid in these kind of limestone cliffs we're probably under
them in the caves well the rain is officially picking up you can probably hear the wind as
well hopefully there's not a big old storm coming in it's not supposed to be that rainy of a day
we're supposed to be mainly cloudy but of course we're up on the top of a mountain so what else
is it gonna do well through the magic of editing we are now in one of the boats that i think you
might have saw from the cliff in the top of the mountain there and we're just starting to go down
a river i think we're gonna find some caves and of course we're gonna find some more beautiful views
this is so serene so quiet the only thing i can hear is the sound of the boat going through the
water are the only two oh here we passed one boat a few minutes ago i'm sure regularly
it's really really busy out here and i know it would definitely be good for tourism to pick
up but there's something really special about us being the only boat out here at the moment
what a way to finish our very last day in vietnam this is simply magical i really don't
have any words this is so special especially after like basically two years of the pandemic
yeah we've traveled a tiny little bit but this is our first new country and finishing off like
this is just really really really amazing and i wish i had the right words to describe it
i know a lot of people say that they prefer this over halong bay and as we go through this river
it's so quiet it's so serene it's so incredibly beautiful i can kind of see why so it's not just
greenery you see on the tour here there's these kind of i think they're shrines or maybe they're
graves i'm sure someone can let us know but either way they're spectacular it's so beautiful
coming to vietnam was just on the bucket list in general especially after the two years like anna
said but i think it's safe to say we may have saved the best for last this is our last video
here in the country and this might be our favorite place i mean just look at this this i don't think
we've ever been around such just natural beauty so there are three caves on this tour and we're just
approaching the very first one wow uh yeah in case you don't know we're going i think inside that it
looks like it there's two boats ahead of us one of them just went in the other one's about to
go in now i think we might have to duck our heads it looks pretty low i mean you seem you seem very
calm absolutely i'm totally calm uh this is pitch black in here already i realize you guys can't see
me but i'm gonna leave this on for a second whoa i'll get some of the light look at this
wow this is insane it's literally insane
so we've done some caves before but i can say this is the first time we've gone in one side and
come out of another side while going underneath a mountain it's a little bit terrifying but what
i love is all you can hear is kind of like the paddling of the boat and just it's so
calm so serene so peaceful and now we're coming out to the other side look at this
oh my word
so sometimes we do some really amazing things and i have to apologize for
gushing but this is going to be a gushing thing this might be
up there with one of my favorite things i've ever done in my life in the last video we were
actually eating vietnamese food and i ate one of my favorite things that i've ever had in my life
so i'm gonna say vietnam is gonna be up here in terms of my favorite countries of all time
what what this has been such an amazing trip here and just the fact that we've eaten all
this great food we saw some amazing cities some amazing towns some amazing nature but nothing
nothing has been quite like what we're seeing now i never want to leave forever
oddly enough it looks like we've just come up to someone's
house and there's people out there waving but now look what we found again
it is another cave cave number two oh man look at this wow holy smokes
to give props to the captain here he's been uh paddling so far for quite a while i think
we're about 45 minutes in i guess one of the things you can do here on the tour is get um
either some snacks or a drink or drink yeah it would be very convenient wow i mean this is the
definition of convenience okay do you have beer yes beer please wow look at this one yeah do you
want to be online one beer for the captain please okay one second okay you want mango no thank you
no mango today we just want the bad stuff i mean it's a good place to have a beer right like look
it's like one of the only words we know it's the only i think we know three words
whenever i got the chance to say tap yet i say tapia it means goodbye you're wondering
well cheers you guys this is so cool we bought as you saw the captain uh some snacks
and a beer as well and uh i think it's safe to say well first let's try this
okay it's safe to say the beer tastes better out here on the river than it does anywhere
else but no to be serious for a second if you're coming to vietnam and we highly recommend you do
make sure to come to ninbin such a highlight if you're going to hanoi which is probably
what you're going to do if you're coming to vietnam come here it's an hour and a half
away and look what you get look behind us and there's people out here selling
snacks and goods i mean what else could you ask for this has been such such a special
day so our next stop on this tour is a temple that is inside the cave check this out yeah look
way up there you can see some light so clearly it is like a cave but there's access to like the sky
this is nice this is amazing have you guys ever seen anything like this well and the best part
look at this how gorgeous is that there's like so much detail so ornate again i really like all the
gold and kind of red colors i'm starting to wonder if this is the most colorful temple we've seen yet
ooh that's a tough one i mean you just can't get over the setting so it might be the most colorful
but it's also definitely the most unique well we've come over to another temple here it's very
close to the one we were just at but this one seems rather important first of all it's called
taipei iv time v it's hard for us to say some of these words but this was a very important temple
wasn't it yeah so it dates back to like the 13th century i think we talked a little bit about the
king coming here he apparently came from hanoi trying to escape the mongolian army and he met
here with the generals they basically came up with a plan to defeat the mongolian army from
here so this was like a big strategy yeah basically they hid here and then they made
a strategy to i think eventually defeated the mongolians so pretty important place i think
it was also i didn't quite get it all when it was being told but like the second capital well on a
more later note we've found some very cute doggos huh super cute look at them hey boy hi no nothing
what a beautiful place this is what a way to end this day huh this day has been
absolutely incredible i'm sorry if we've been overly gushy and gushy about it but wow i know
just when you've been so amazing when you think you know we were kind of used to vietnam at this
point so honestly we're like how could it possibly get any better like how does this
country get any better and then this happens and it's just so funny that we actually went
to hanoi and then here and we thought maybe we should have done nin bin first just because the
weather was a little bit better and finished off in hanoi but i'm so glad we are finishing up our
time in vietnam here in ninbin even if the weather wasn't entirely perfect it's actually been really
moody and good for this place yeah like a fitness setting i wouldn't have changed it i'm glad this
was the weather for our adventure today but that is gonna do it for this video and this entire
vietnam series we really hope you guys enjoyed it it seems like you have we want to say
thanks to all of you that tune in each and every week special thanks to all the vietnamese people
who have been leaving us comments and just been really into the videos we so appreciate that
you can tell we're loving the country absolutely this will not be our only only visit to vietnam
we will absolutely be back we fell in love with it we can see why so many people have messaged
us and contacted us and said i'm so glad you're in vietnam it's my favorite country i've ever been to
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it's been absolutely amazing i think for now we need to sign off and go get a massage because our
legs are legit sore my legs are destroyed like my calves specifically you might be wondering what's
next for us so the thing is we don't know either so we have a couple of ideas but we're just gonna
leave the element of surprise in there you'll see very soon on the next video stay tuned for
next week and see what we'll be getting up to because it's a surprise for everybody
including us all right guys that's it from ninh binh wishing you delightful travels see you soon