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Explore rural Vietnam from the limestone landscapes of Ninh Binh, with a climb to the Hang Mua viewpoint and a Jeep tour through the surrounding area. Along the way, visit Hang Mua Cave and That Vi Temple for a closer look at this memorable destination.
This Ninh Binh travel experience combines sightseeing, local temples, and outdoor exploration—ideal for anyone planning a Vietnam trip or enjoying virtual travel from home. Discover ideas for a rural Vietnam itinerary, Ninh Binh attractions, Hang Mua Cave, and a Jeep tour around the region.
This Ninh Binh travel experience combines sightseeing, local temples, and outdoor exploration—ideal for anyone planning a Vietnam trip or enjoying virtual travel from home. Discover ideas for a rural Vietnam itinerary, Ninh Binh attractions, Hang Mua Cave, and a Jeep tour around the region.
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00:00Coming up on Lloyd and Mandy.
00:03This is how you should see Ninbin.
00:11I think if you're a nature lover, Ninbin is the place to come to.
00:16There are so many outdoor activities and things to see here.
00:20It's incredible.
00:22The landscape is so beautiful.
00:34Oh, that feels so weird.
00:40Very tall.
01:03Run away, run away, run away.
01:06You're never too far right.
01:09Run away, run away, run away.
01:12Into your ears game.
01:15Run away, run away, run away.
01:18Run away, run away, run away.
01:23Run away, run away, run away.
01:27Okay guys, so before we show you this amazing day we had in Ninbin.
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03:54Let's get into the video.
04:03Alright Mandy's back in action.
04:05We're going to go give Hang Mura.
04:07Another shot.
04:08It's about quarter to seven.
04:09Not exactly sunrise.
04:11It's very overcast anyway.
04:13But.
04:14Hoping.
04:15Number one.
04:16It's open.
04:17And number two.
04:19It's not too busy like it was yesterday.
04:21But.
04:22But.
04:23We're just going to see if we can grab it quick.
04:25A smoothie or a piece of fruit.
04:28Before we go.
04:29Is this joint open?
04:35It's pretty early.
04:36I don't know if anything's going to be open.
04:37But.
04:39Have a look.
04:43I don't think so eh.
04:47This is where we were coming from last night.
04:52Just grab a banana.
04:54I don't think those are real.
04:58It's alright.
04:58There might be something there that we can eat.
05:01There is cafes and stuff there.
05:02Um.
05:12We're stalling.
05:15Were it?
05:17Yea.
05:17Uh.
05:22Good luck.
05:28Yeah.
05:31This is good onênciaos.
05:33Let's eat some fruit.
05:37Hello. Hello.
05:43Is it ripe? Can I eat now? No. Yeah?
05:47Just one banana. Other than that.
05:57How much for the banana? How much?
06:20I think we're the first one here.
06:25Wow.
06:28Okay.
06:29Made it.
06:32We think we're the first people here.
06:35It's so peaceful. It's so beautiful.
06:37I'm so happy I haven't missed out on this.
06:40Wow.
06:42I'm excited.
06:46Is it open though?
06:47Yeah.
06:48That's the question.
06:49Yeah.
06:50Yeah.
06:51Yep.
06:58Thank you. Bye-bye.
07:04Oh, I didn't even know.
07:06I would have fell for that.
07:10Good thing you don't want to charge the money.
07:12He was joking.
07:15I don't know what the conversion rate is still.
07:19100,000 to get in.
07:20I gave him 500 and he was like,
07:21thank you, bye-bye. Just joking.
07:23And I was like, bye.
07:24Bye-bye.
07:26All these little houses are cute on the water.
07:30Yeah.
07:37Hello. Thank you.
07:39Hi.
07:40It's so small.
07:57So there's a lot of hotels and restaurants here at the base of Hang Moor.
08:04It looks like hopefully by the time we climb up and come back down we can grab some breakfast.
08:10That'd be nice.
08:13And we are literally the only people here compared to yesterday.
08:16This is amazing.
08:23So cool, eh?
08:24It's so beautiful.
08:26Looks like there's going to be a few places to choose from that breakfast after this.
08:30Yeah.
08:31Definitely recommend coming at around like 7am if you can.
08:36It's very cold though.
08:38Yeah.
08:38Yeah.
08:47Alright, we're just coming up to the stairs.
08:49Apparently it's about 500 steps to the top.
08:53And it takes...
08:54I've heard anywhere between 15 minutes and 30 minutes.
08:58Depending on how fast you walk or how fit you are I suppose.
09:03I think it would probably...
09:04We're not in a half rush.
09:06Let's run.
09:08Matt.
09:09Do you want to race?
09:10No.
09:11I'm so tired I don't want to.
09:14We'll just take it easy.
09:21There's just this cave called the Tiger Cave at the Endrance here.
09:25And there's a...
09:28Statue of a...
09:29Looks like a white tiger.
09:31And like...
09:33It's like offerings there.
09:37So pretty.
09:58I don't want to lie.
10:00These stairs are pretty tough.
10:03We're probably a quarter of the way.
10:05Maybe halfway.
10:05I don't know. How are you going?
10:11Well, I have three pairs of pants on and I have four tops on.
10:16Then I'm going down to two. A bit sweaty.
10:23It's hard because it's actually cold.
10:25Once you start walking, obviously you get really warm.
10:50Alright, we made it to the first viewpoint. Pretty nice view, hey?
10:57Yeah, I'm really happy that we've done this first thing in the morning.
11:01I can't imagine how you would get a good view if there was too many people here.
11:05Like, the platforms aren't that big.
11:09We're just heading up to the second one, which is a little bit higher.
11:12It's probably another 50 or so steps.
11:16The thing about the steps is they're so steep.
11:19That's why it's so tiring.
11:22500 steps may not sound like that much, but it's on an incline like this.
11:442 seconds and you'll get ready for a special time.
11:45There's a lot over here, but this part looks local, and this part looks so good.
11:45There's one more trucking and you'll get harm to this.
11:46There's a lot of transport.
11:47And those dockings are next.
11:56And there's the bus working travel.
12:07All right we're heading down, the walk down is a lot easier, we're going to go grab some
12:13breakfast and then we're going on a jeep tour, sightseeing tour, I have no idea what
12:20to expect with that, it's like an old style army jeep, it looks so cool, convertible looks
12:25pretty cool, so we're going to grab some brekkie and some coffee and then here comes the crowd
12:31and then we'll head off and do that.
12:38All right this really shits me, there's literally a bin every 50 meters and there's rubbish all over
12:45this hike like we need to start shaming people who litter a little bit more I think like this
12:51has been a theme everywhere that we've traveled to people just throw their rubbish everywhere like
12:55I don't understand, maybe if there wasn't a bin within walking distance kind of can understand
13:02a bit more but yeah that shits me so let's make a pact that we're all just going to shame
13:05people
13:06for littering.
13:16There you go, that's how it works.
13:19It's hard eh?
13:20Just as we said that these two girls just left some rubbish on the ground, I know sometimes it's an
13:25accident like stuff falls out of your pocket whatever but like the worst one is masks I see
13:30masks on the ground everywhere and that really shits me. I like your outfit.
13:44Yeah it looks like the bigger group tours start around 8am so I think around 7-7.30 is probably
13:50the perfect time to come if you don't want it to be too busy.
14:01See,
14:23this is,
14:27But before we leave we're just going to the Muwa cave which is like on the way out.
14:31I don't know what we're going to find in here.
14:35Looks like there's a spring.
14:36A spring.
14:38A pearl spring.
14:40Whoa look at the studio.
14:41This is pretty cool.
14:55Instantly got about 10 degrees of warm up and then there's a door here that's locked.
15:07Sounds like there's a pump going.
15:08Must be a hot spring in there, hey?
15:30It's so lush and green.
15:32There's not really much here though, there's a couple of tables and chairs.
15:37It's a very nice spot though.
15:54All right guys.
15:54We definitely need to go.
15:55All right guys.
16:07We definitely made it in time.
16:09There's hundreds of people walking in right now.
16:11I think a couple of buses just showed up.
16:18Okay we found a spot for breakfast and who was it that recommended coconut coffee?
16:26Somebody in our DMs recommended I get coconut coffee because I've been drinking egg coffee.
16:31And they just brought it out and this is not what I was expecting.
16:37It's got a mountain of whipped coconut cream and coconut shavings on it.
16:44It's almost like a smoothie instead.
16:48It looks delicious.
16:51Not what he thought he was ordering.
16:53Not what I thought I was ordering.
16:54I thought it was going to be coconut mixed with a bit of coconut cream.
16:57I mean I thought it was going to be coffee mixed with a bit of coconut cream.
17:01Man I'm going to be full after this.
17:04It's really good.
17:05Yeah.
17:06But it's more of a dessert coffee.
17:08Yeah.
17:08Which shows the egg one.
17:09I feel like a lot of the coffees here are like desserts.
17:13So good though.
17:15That was an excellent breakfast.
17:17Family owned restaurant.
17:18Highly recommended.
17:19It's called Rustic Garden.
17:20The staff were so beautiful.
17:22Definitely check it out when you come here.
17:24All right.
17:25It's about midday.
17:26It's warmed up a little bit.
17:27We're just about to head off on this Jeep tour which not too short to expect.
17:31I hooked it last minute yesterday.
17:35And apparently it's going to take us around for about 2 hours in this big old convertible Jeep.
17:47What's your name?
17:50My name's Tao.
17:51Tao?
17:52Yes.
17:52Lloyd.
17:53Nice to meet you.
17:53What's your name?
17:54Lloyd.
17:55Mandy.
17:56Nice to meet you Tao.
17:58Where do you want to sit?
17:59This is sick.
18:00So sick.
18:01Oh, it's way warmer out here.
18:03Oh, big dog.
18:05Yeah.
18:06Big dog.
18:07Yes.
18:07Okay.
18:08I don't know.
18:09I don't know either.
18:10We're just going with the flight.
18:12Yeah.
18:12Why?
18:27This is how you should see them then.
18:43Okay, so far we have no idea where we're going but this is a whole other part of Nimbin we
18:47haven't seen yet and it's pretty cool. It's a great way to see it.
18:52I think we're stopping here.
18:55Where are we?
19:06Alright, looks like we're heading onto a back road now.
19:10Okay.
19:10Oh, duck down.
19:12Limbo.
19:14We're going to duck down to get onto this.
19:17Whoa.
19:22Made it.
19:28So I think if you're a nature lover, Nimbin is the place to come to. There are so many outdoor
19:34activities and things to see here. It's incredible. The landscape is so beautiful.
19:43Alright, we're doing some off-roading now. It's going to get bumpy, aren't it?
19:50Buffalo Cave.
19:51Oh, we're headed to Buffalo Cave. Whatever that is.
20:12Oh, that feels so weird.
20:13Oh, look.
20:22Look how cute. Here you go, Papa.
20:27Oh, they're so cute. Here you go. Oh, that was awesome. I laughed every second of that.
20:35Can you catch?
20:37It's so weird.
20:40It's kind of like the fish, um...
20:42The fish spa?
20:44Yeah.
20:46Very beautiful.
20:48I'm going to show you how to feed Buffalo.
20:51And you can touch.
20:52You can touch the head and the body of Buffalo too.
20:55Okay.
20:55Yeah.
20:57Very high.
20:58Very high.
20:59Very tall.
21:01Very tall.
21:01Very tall.
21:12Okay.
21:14Come on.
21:14Come on.
21:21He's hungry.
21:22Yeah, he's hungry.
21:24Er...
21:27Stop.
21:32He's ready.
21:34Come on.
21:35He saw me.
21:37Oh, Hนะคะ.
21:44It's a place in Europe.
22:15There's just so many restaurants and cafes that look really cool as well.
22:19It looks like you can do this whole loop on a bike if you want.
22:22I think you can rent a bicycle.
22:25But I reckon the Jeep's away.
22:46That's aimento.
23:01I think we've had a good idea of getting better off它.
23:04We're just at a$50 as opposed to winning the bike.
23:35Okay, I think this is probably the last stop.
23:37Tai V Temple.
23:38It's pretty cool.
23:40Big Buddhist temple we are.
23:42I think it's free to enter.
23:44There's no one asking for money or anything.
23:47There's actually no one here.
24:01We've got beer here.
24:02I guess monks drink beer and beer now.
24:25Okay, I don't know anything about this temple.
24:27It could be way off but it looks like a Chinese Buddhist temple.
24:30There's Chinese writing everywhere and Buddhist flags.
24:34So that would be my guess.
24:42I think we've got to wait a minute until this woman finishes posing on our Jeep.
24:48Okay, that's it.
24:49We're going to head back.
24:49That was a pretty good tour honestly.
24:52I would recommend if you're thinking about doing it by bike, it probably would be good too.
24:57But something about being in an open air Jeep is way more fun.
25:03And our tour guide was really good too.
25:06You can sort of pick and choose how long you want to spend at each spot.
25:11He was as stoked on the drone as us.
25:14He was very happy with the drone.
25:16Yeah.
25:16All up about two hours.
25:18You could stretch it out to three or four.
25:22But two hours is plenty for us.
25:24Fantastic.
25:25Yeah.
25:26Nanny's got to have her now.
25:28Yeah.
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