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we're spending the next 3 weeks in Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh in the South to the insane

Limestone wonders in the North and the Hawaii style Seaside in the middle so join us as we

take in the breathtaking wonders of Ninh Binh and to be honest that is the biggest hack to get this

entire place by yourself find some delicious traditional foods in Hoi An but when I tell

you those Banh Mi were so good we went back for seconds today and discover the unusual island of

Phu Quoc to make our incredible time in Vietnam more accessible we've combined all of our travel

vlogs into one Vietnam Mega Vlog with some extra never-before-seen bits mixed in along the way so

sit back with your drink of choice as we explore our favorite country to travel to of all time and

we're going to start by telling you why it ranks as our number one Southeast Asian destination

When people find out we've traveled to 45 countries together we inevitably get

that one question and although we've seen some epic places from the snowing

in Canada to the the deserts of Peru we pretty much always have the same answer

Vietnam today we are back in the largest city of our favorite country to travel

and we're going to be spending the day showing you exactly why we love it so

[Music] much first things first we need to get a taxi [Music]

so today is going to be a mix of doing the things that we did 2 years ago that

we love and doing some things that year one Jordan and Emily just would never have done

but we're starting the day with one of our favorite things about being back in Vietnam

[Music] one of the reasons that we love Vietnam is their undeniable and quite unique Coffee

Culture not only are there lots of different variations to try but everyone seems to hang

out at the cafes and all along the streets there are these tiny tables and chairs where you can

sit watch the world go by and probably enjoy your way too strong Vietnamese coffee um can

we please get one iced coconut coffee one coconut coffee and one of the yogurt with coffees please

so two coffees we weren't really getting anything cheap per se we

were kind of get the signature ones 110,000 Vietnamese dog which is like

s Australian dollars roughly not bad yeah for like a coffee place [Music]

[Music] starting your day with coffee doesn't seem unusual in fact probably most of the world

starts their day by having a coffee but in Vietnam it's different 2 years ago when we

were in Hanoi we tried egg coffee for the first time and I was pleasantly surprised as weird as

that sounds it was quite good so today I wanted to get something similar but I didn't want to

do the same thing so I've got yogurt coffee I can't even s is it that big oh my God Che

[Applause]

[Music]

it's probably not for me the uh like sourness of the yogurt really comes through in a not so

pleasant way the bitterness of the chocolate brings out the sourness in the milk that's

the worst part of both of those things I'll probably get egg coffee next time okay [Music]

the yogurt has the flavor of Greek yogurt you know no sweetness quite Punchy wo and

then that is quite strong coffee on top enjoy So Kong Cafe is actually known for its coconut

coffee which we had 2 years ago in h and I couldn't resist getting another one it was

my favorite of all of the coffees that we tried in Vietnam it's almost like a frappe

but instead of ice or water it's coconut milk maybe I don't actually know but it's

this really unique frappe consistency quite strong coffee and then a nice sweet coconut

hint if you're going to get any coffee in Vietnam this is the one to get but get it iced [Music]

time to go explore than you have a nice day when we were here 2 years ago it was after

that whole Global pandemic thing so a lot of places were still shut but we've heard that

one of them has reopened again also how call us with it's artwork just in the apartment building

[Music]

those classic 920 Bells it's still under construction which is very unfortunate

but the bells still go I just am quite confused about the timing

[Music]

[Applause]

one thing I did not expect to fall in love with when we started traveling

was the different architecture that we see everywhere and here in Vietnam it's super

unique it's like this Gothic Renaissance French influenced architecture and we wanted to come

to this Cathedral because when we were here in 2022 it was under construction

apparently it's still going for another 5 years luckily our next stop is right next

[Music]

door we actually came here 2 years ago and sent a postcard to my mom sorry

Mom you're not getting one this time it's going to someone else

this option I think this one's quite cute artwork but this one

has a dog on it and she'll like that dog one dog

one oh I don't need a bag thank you so much there's not much room for riding but I feel

like that's okay what should we say auntie yeah ni maybe put a DE up there yeah this might be her

first ever letter yeah in her whole life in her whole life okay decisions were made shut

[Music]

up yay I don't know if it was the Builder's intention to make this a massive tourist

attraction but they definitely have there's so many people here it is also way more fun

than it should be sitting down taking a moment and riding out a postcard and then

sending it to a loved one so highly highly highly recommend completely agree but now

I feel like we've worked up an appetite random question but has Tilly ever received a letter

in the post yet love you bye hopefully she hasn't and that's her first one ever

[Music]

wow inside of that post office sorry I went like that like yeah I'm going to be sweaty

for the whole time wearing Vietnam all right I think we said this last time but the inside of

that post office looks like something out of Harry Potter totally like the iron and

The Archers and wooden the wooden boxes on the side that I think you go in to like maybe write

your letters or something so it's private I don't know what they're for yeah who would go in there

wow part of me really wants to wait in here and let Emily freak out trying to find me it's a bit

mean and it's hot do you go in there what's in there it's it is where you privately write your

letters nice I would do that for a postcard but also like everyone who handles a postcard

can read it so it's not like it's a private thing anyway that's true and it's really dark

in there anyway all right yeah hungry we already said we're hungry I'm having a good day me too

I love Vietnam Vietnam do you remember we were walking down this way and we met the sweetest

old man do you remember him he was so happy and laughing well this I guess I'll be on my way

now you just give me a [Music]

[Music]

did you want to look for a yeah

actually these have been fine these yeah I feel like it's less busy Okay

so one of my other favorite things about Vietnam is just how nice the

people are here and I just spent 10 minutes sitting down with this

sweetest Vietnamese man we got to know each other he was singing me some selon

SEL that's way oh it's so nice here I love it and it's just so welcoming and

kind where else but Vietnam where else but Vietnam now I'm really hungry last

time we were in this epic City we made a pretty Ordinary video and at the very end

of that we had a barn me it was incredible I don't know if it's just because it was

the first authentic B me experience we've ever had but I cannot stop thinking about it

[Music]

so weird being back

[Music]

[Music] thank you I cannot believe we actually found the exact same

place it looks different but it is definitely the

same food has got to be one of the most important things to us when we're traveling and that is why

Vietnam has won so much of our love little bit of a story time with this one obviously we made

that video last time loved it so much but people started asking where exactly it was and we did

know the name of the shop or if the shop even had a name so we literally Googled our hotel

went into street view and followed the steps we took to get there and took a street view

of it there and that's what we've been sing people to let them know so we really weren't

sure this place would still exist and it does look different to the original video but it's

there do you want to try it first obviously a few things I'm going off that makes me think

this is still the same place it's across the street from a fruit place which I remember last

time cuz I almost order to fruit juice two is the pork crackling it looks Sensational

so crispy on the outside the wooden chopping block looks super familiar they're chopping

it fresh slicing up the barn meat loading it up and then they drizzle it with this

gorgeous sauce that I'm convinced must be the drippings from when they cooking the pork and

I think that that is the secret sauce that makes this so memorable I am really worried because as

you can probably tell I've built this up quite a lot in my [Music] head yeah smells amazing oh my

gosh

crunch mm it's quite a bit spicier than I remember but that is divine the sauce that

they put in there has just Co everything everything and honestly the pork crackle

is what makes it it is so crunchy that you can hear it through the bread oh this time where

we're staying in Vietnam is District 1 which is the super popular tourist area and apparently

the best Banh Mi in Saigon is right around the corner from our hotel so I think we're

going to go try that tomorrow before we check out and we'll let you know how it compares

yes

please that's look at that you can have more you had like nine butts I've had

one

10 it is really good I think it was just that bir was chili it wasn't chili at all after

that you one Jordan and Emily got it absolutely correct that was incredible like the juice that

they put on the bun on the pork like seeped into the bun and made it like soft and and

the little bit of spice actually added so much to it I honestly we'll be back

here again I know I've been known to put some mayo on some stuff be it generally over excited

happy positive person but when I tell you those bun M were so good we went back for

seconds today I just can't believe it because I feel like your memory things are always

exaggerated and better than they potentially were you look back with rosecolor glasses but

this lives up to it I'm telling you there's one recommendation you take from us in hoochi

Min it's to try these and let us know in the comments what you think I'm putting it in the

description I'm putting it everywhere I can't even remember what I was going to say a dollar

20 and it cost it was 20,000 Vietnamese Dong which is like a120 Australian like 80 cents American we

got one to split you know you build things up in your memory as well like it's always better in

your memory cuz look back with rose color glasses but for that to still be that okay anyway have we

mentioned we love Vietnam this video is like a love letter this is all right on to the next

[Music]

one one of the things we love most about travel in Vietnam is the sheer affordability and how

much value you get for your dollar here as a tourist but the next thing we're doing we've

actively avoided in several cities because it's very expensive and unfortunately Saigon is the

[Music]

same and 20 minutes later and $350 later we are all the way across

town I'm see 500 it's 40,000 we have

yes please thank you you take the and then you take a drink at 79 in game 81 and keep

Thea thank you so much like we said observation towers is something we usually avoid but this

one was too good to ignore not only that we upgraded from just seeing the view having a

package yeah we got sold we don't have no idea what's included apparently we got a

photo shoot on the way in which we did not what expect new thumbnail wow okay 79 Sky View we're

going to fly up in the clouds a I forgot to put the Drone up you do that after oh wow

ooh it's gone quite fast I think oh my ears are popping it's like the bur Khalifa one

where you're like I never did that too expensive we didn't do it no I'm sorry [Applause] [Music]

is that how high we are right now [Music] yeah so when I knew I wanted to do an observation deck

and go up somewhere really high and look over the city I started researching and I found something

called the bit Financial Tower that was built in 2010 and when it was it was the tallest building

not just in hoimin in all of Vietnam so I got really excited about it then

I dug a little bit deeper and I found this place landmark 81 which absolutely

smashed bit Finance Tower this one is 460 something M tall and incredible [Music]

so the tickets to get up here cost about 30 Australian per person but then you can

upgrade for about $3 more and you get a bunch more included you get a drink a VR

experience two photos print out and like a freaky Skywalk Oh my legs are like jelly already go go

go go go I would say I'm not sure if you points are worth it for us cuz that's quite expensive

and $60 is over half of our daily budget but if you are going to do it upgrading to the combo

package is definitely worth it cuz it's only $3 more and you get all of that extra stuff if

you're on a vacation or a holiday here and it's like one of your only stops definitely do it

you're doing a long-term Budget Travel Maybe not maybe not the views are incredible like 360 can

walk around and it is just super clear today and it really puts into perspective how big this city

is we have one more thing to explore on our love letter to Vietnam but that's better at

nighttime that's crazy

[Music] the plan

[Music]

this is new and H Street it is a really cool night time is that only night uh it's I don't

know a really cool pedestrian street here in hosi Min it's like 60 M wide and it is just alive at

night with people selling things food all the shops the lights it's so pretty they also do a

bunch of performances here I don't know whether it's like obviously time of year is going to

dictate what's here but I've seen things online of like big dragons and all sorts it runs all the way

from like this super beautiful European historical government building all the way down to the river

we decided we would walk here tonight instead of getting a grab and the walk here was quite

cool like I we don't go out much after dark but we should I think they do especially here just

all of the lights and the people all out cuz it's cooled down so much after the rain but I have had

such a great great I have had such a great 24 hours priding This Love Letter to

Vietnam today we're exploring the tropical island of Phu Quoc at least that's what we

thought we were doing this is not at all what we expected we flew to the island anticipating

Sun vibrant beaches and a bustling tourism Hub but if you've seen our channel before you know

that travel doesn't always go to plan we've like 4 minutes to check in I don't think we've ever had

a reject Landing before th storms basically every day and in this video we really mean

it if you've seen our last video you know that we love Vietnam I love Vietnam Vietnam we've

actually been here before and spent an entire month adventuring from the south to the north

we've also recently decided to set ourselves the ambitious goal of visiting 100 countries

in the next 2 years just plump I was thinking that's an easy one to pack King my guys it's

just one flight oh pretty good with a girl like that you're probably thinking why would they

spend more time in a country they've already been to we've actually got something called

the Redemption list it's effectively a list of everywhere we've been but things we've missed

in those countries one of our favorite and also most frustrating things about full-time

travel is you can visit a country for as long as you want and never see everything [Music]

oh this isn't him that's not him [Music] either just 20 minutes and we'll be at the airport I

don't think Vietnam had these last time we were here but there's all these electric

vehicles that you can get as grabs such a good initiative and the car is super quiet

[Music]

we have like 4 minutes to check

in might be in the other section

think you don't stop me for the Drone get it

after hectic how was bedum two people were sitting down in the middle of the wallway

after all of that hecticness and drama our flight was delayed for half an hour

[Music]

okay got a little bit of time to tell you what the plan is and it is a rough plan we literally

booked the flights in the accommodation about 14 hours ago the whole idea of this video and the

next few weeks in Vietnam are going to be doing the things that we didn't get to do last [Music]

time allies V Q 4 5 the part for change to Gate [Music]

14 right we didn't go to F walk in year one of travel because we had a really

tight budget we were literally catching buses and trains everywhere we went and

we would like to thank you for flying with [Music]

B walk is going to be lasting for another 30 minutes to an hour we will be diverting to

canel to uh wa off the weather once again we apologized for the delay thank you for your

patience did you hear that we're diverting to out to wait out the weather walk I don't think

we've ever had a rejected Landing before that was crazy even all my years I used

to be a flent for four years I never had one that was my first wow ladies and gentlemen we

have landed at K International Airport K City it is a safy requirement that you remain that

we your about fast until the sign has been St off okay let's try that again [Music]

ladies and genten welcome to F International Airport F City the

local time now is half 4 p.m. and the outside temperature is around 29° C

we would like to thank you for traveling with us today look forward is your today

has been dramatic our 1 hour flight quickly turned into into 3 hours but we have finally

landed got some new DS we are staying at the on Lang Beach which in our admittedly short

and very very quick research is meant to be one of the best beaches on the island and a

little bit more calm than the main city but it's a 20-minute taxi to get there perfect Island weather

[Music]

we have not had a good track record for getting into places H you mean we got to the complete

wrong apartment after the first apartment not having rooms available came to the hotel they

have no rooms John's not finding this quite as funny as I am at the moment on hotel number

two hotel number two sale number two the gra off where the hotels said they were they are not here

attempt number three for hotel number two on night number [Music] oneome thank you made it to the

right hotel but it does have a different name on the door and our flight got delayed this time and

diverted hopefully the next one's better and we had a lovely little mudw walk to get here cuz the

driver for some reason even though he had Google Maps going he was ignoring it but to be fair even

if he came down on the road I think you're meant to it looks like it's flooded at the moment rainy

season also there's no one at reception I just messaged them on WhatsApp but it is silent here

very yellow lighting but this place was only like $15 a m I think with breakfast included 10 us and

look how spacious that's so good pool vi yeah so quiet thank you so we were meant to get in a

couple of hours ago which meant we would be going out for lunch instead of dinner right now it also

means that we have had breakfast and a bit of gum and that's it so I'm starving hello hello you do

want to be friends you do you want to be best we can be best we don't fight each other though

[Music] to explore new

[Music] places we probably should have checked the weather before booking flights to the islands

in full transparency this is currently our second full day here and this is the

weather thunderstorms basically every day so this video is quickly turning into how

not to travel F walk in Vietnam not only were our flights diverted and it's been raining the entire

time we've been here we're the only people that we kind of see in the entire town now apparently

the whole electronic grid is down for the entire day it's just bad timing it's just bad timing but

it's our last day here so we can't say no we are going to explore anyway and hopefully the power

comes back on at some point how beautiful is this hotel though it's just [Music]

us 15 bucks a night making a deal but even though it's not great weather and even though

things aren't going to plan we're going to have a good day and we're going to be positive and we're

going to look on the bright side deal deal it's also rainy enough that we're going to switch to

the GoPro let's go I don't know how the audio is it's a 20 minute walk to the beach [Music]

truth be told that was our third direction of trying to get to the beach the universe

does not want us exploring through walk okay new plan we going to get to a road

somewhere and then we're going to order a grab and take us to the place that's

meant to be like the Europe side of Phu Quoc me to be really really beautiful

[Music]

and about 15 minutes later we've made it to Grand world there's more people out

on the streets than we thought there would be there's a lot more than yesterday and this is

like a crazy bamboo structure to welcome us and look there that looks like qu this is so weird

[Music]

they have like Jurassic Park themed music playing

constantly really puts you into that Jurassic Park mindset I can't wait to get into all the

buildings one of the most popular things to do on the island of Phu Quoc is to go

to Vin wonders which is the theme park here it stretches over 50 hectares and is actually

the biggest theme park in all of Southeast Asia I'm pretty sure Grand world is part of that but

this place is free entry the VIN wonders theme park looks amazing and incredible

but it is very expensive and we thought we're not going to make the most of it in

this weather so this is a good compromise for us this is crazy it looks like Venice

[Music]

some of the shops here are suffering from the no power but some have their own battery powered but

either way it is dead here and when you compare this to the actual Venice very different they've

literally got the same Bridges you see in Venice over the canals so from what I've understanded

this was built through the Vietnamese government and private companies investing millions of

dollars to make it and make it like the new hub for everyone all tourists to come here and relax

it's so weird because it's themed not Vietnam it's like come to Vietnam to not really be there but

yeah Co happened as they opened or oh and now we have a bit of a global recession so I don't know

really really tough start it's quite an eerie feeling being here because it's really cool and

clearly quite new but there is just no one here yeah it's like I don't want this to happen but it

feels like it has the potential to end up one of those like themed ghost towns that you see

on YouTube all the time it's almost a ghost town just us being here even though we're walking down

like these huge streets completely by ourselves it looks like there are apartments up above each of

the shops so even though the shops are closed like people are living here as well let's go to London

it look like I'm at London

totally we've been walking for about 10 minutes through Venice London and now Mallorca and I

can't help but feel like an eerie sadness I don't know if it's ever really been fully up

and running and I genuinely feel sad for small businesses that were probably told here's a

great investment opportunity have your spot in this awesome neighborhood buy an apartment and

it's just like there's no one here there's so many closed businesses I would say over half

of the shops are shut and I don't know if that's because it could be because we're here in the off

seon it's an odd time of day like middle of the day maybe I know one street is the night market

so maybe that does all open at nighttime but it is just bizarre we are it feels like we are the

only ones here after five plus attempts we finally made it to the beach Ready Step On

Together woo this beach is gorgeous the sand is beautiful like really thin small tiny grains

there's like a bar area heaps of different seating options this would have been a really

cool part of the park and maybe in summer it is like honestly we we just don't know this oh you

can go we wanted to come to Phu Quoc and we've been to Phu Quoc now this is not at all what we

expected we had pretty clear expectations of what we going to experience here and a ghost town was

not on the list not at all I think we were just picturing summer tropical beaches nice Sun we

have had none of that sometimes travel plans don't go to plan so we apologize for that but

at least you got to see maybe a different side of Fu walk I think that's what makes travel fun yeah

you never know what you're going to get and always look on the bright side like this would be better

if it was full of people and all of the shops were open but also we've had it completely to

ourselves let go back to our completely alone Resort yeah our private Resort if

we have to of course just as we made it back to our hotel the sun came out so we jumped at

the chance to get in the pool trying to make the most of the sunshine we ended up back at

the kamama restaurant for some overpriced but delicious beer and pizza to celebrate going

to new places the next morning we made our way back to the airport for a long but thankfully

less eventful travel day from Fu walk to deat we made our way here for a very specific reason 2

years ago we came to Vietnam and completely fell in love with the food to be honest it's most of

the reason that we've come back but Vietnam was only our third country on this trip so

what if our memories of Vietnamese food was more nostalgic rather than truly accurate yesterday

we flew from Phu Quoc to Da Lat and today we're going on an epic Vietnamese food tour to find

[Music] out just across this road is the Da Lat night market we actually stumbled

across this this morning when we were walking around the town and it was so

busy there were people selling fruit and vegetables and clothes and everything you

can think of but then we realized that at exactly 5:00 they Chang from a day

Market into a night market and it becomes fully pedestrianized Food Heaven so this is our first

[Music] stop it looks like the market is split down the road evenly one side is all

food stores with little plastic chairs sitting out and the other side they're still set up but

it looks like it's all clothed plus it has just gone 5:00 p.m. and it is already [Music] packed

strawberries have to be the most popular fruit here in Da Lat we've seen strawberry ice cream

these perfectly white ones in a box that honestly look like they're chocolates and little plastic

cups like this fill to the broom with them this is Du luck or shaking strawberries and

she put all the strawberries into a jar with this sauce and this powder shook it all up and here we

go ooh wo that is intense it's quite spicy and salty but then

you have the sweetness from the strawberry coming through as well

I love that this is like a on thee-o treat so healthy you say spicy yeah

yeah we've seen a lot of different quality levels of strawberies walking around some

have looked like movie Set quality and some have looked really bad but I think we kind of

split the middle here some are good some not so good that is super weird you're right spice to

start probably not my thing it's like as soon as the strawberry enters your mouth

there's a flavor you're not expecting cuz you think it's going to taste like strawberry but

it's spicy it's interesting that sweet salty combo can't go wrong

what do you have sugar perfect okay so no judgments but as we were walking away from

the night market we saw other strawberry cups those ones look Heap sped up and it

turns out there is a chili version which we had or a sugar version he B basically

has all of the cups pre-made with cut up strawberries in them spoons in about

a tablespoon of sugar shakes it up with another cup on top and here we have a nice

treat better obviously it's CED in Sugar oh it takes it from like an interesting snack to a

really nice dessert that feels kind of healthy M I'll try no these strawberries look so red they

look like that Marino cherries you get in an old fashioned oh yeah not even exaggerating 100 times

better than the other ones it's actually like a royal show candy treat yeah they should do this

more so simple adopt this Australia this Market literally stays open until 5:00 tomorrow morning

but we need to move on our next St we were going to stay at the night market but when I was doing

some research I came across a place that had all of these super wholesome five-star reviews so of

course that's where we had to go this place is so unassuming it's literally a garage like there's no

attempt to make it look restaurante it's just a little old lady super nice cooking out the front

she's so methodical in how she does it it's one by one one by one the same system every single

time I'm really excited to try something it feels Uber local she has remembered everyone's orders

and how many they're having and it's bringing them out in like stages so no one goes hungry for too

long it's so cool I'm so pleased we came here as soon as we walked up she just said two and then

pointed to some seats for us to go sit in some people cleared out and she's moved just closer

to the front I love that she's just taking charge she's like this firry it smells so good [Music]

so this is Vietnamese Pizza it is a rice paper sheet topped with a bunch of things we have two

flavors coming one with cheese one with something else I don't really know but it looks like there's

egg on top and then this spicy maybe seasoning we also have a sauce which Jordan tells me might be

spicy so I'm going to abstain from that they put the rice paper Grill on charcoal and it gets this

beautiful color then what's really fun is you have some scissors and you get to cut your own pizza

slices a thank

you thank you oh I think that's the cheese one that is so good the egg is cooked perfectly on

top it's YY and spicy and salty super Savory and crunchy it like turkey Pizza

remember that no it's so thin the rice paper I like it cuz it's super crunchy

there's something about crunchy it's not a flavor but it should be right for the

cheese that is super tasty I can see why you like that so much it's pretty much all crunch

I wonder what the uh stuff on top is really curious because the rice

Patty obviously is so thin and then it's cooked over these CH grills it becomes

super crispy and like blackened but not too much on the bottom I also I'm pretty

sure I saw sesame seeds on the bottom but whatever they're doing it's working [Music]

actually I might have another one I love that it's just toilet paper is your napkins so this

place was absolutely jam-packed of locals when we came in here we to sit all the way at the back and

now everyone's eaten and left and it's really just us left it's a shame now that we finished

we are leaving but that was surprisingly really really good not that surprising I I thought it

looked good but it exceeded my expectations I should we will leave the location for this

place in the description because if you come to Da Lat you have to eat here I'm pretty sure her

name is Auntie DIN and she's been in service I think for 20 years and yet it is so unassuming

in here so much better than getting at the market know how much it no hope it was not expensive 1 2

3 thank you so much have a nice time thank you that was amazing that was delicious we'll see

you tomorrow of course we had to start the day with coffee but because we're here in Dap we

wanted somewhere that was serving Da Lat beans because they are grown here something about the

temperature makes the coffee amazing we came to a super popular Cafe and ordered two coffees

one black and one with cream neither of them have arrived the way I was expecting the black coffee

is almost like a table drip coffee with a little candle and the cream is ice cream plus we got two

other mugs I'm pretty sure filled with coffee for no [Music] reason what's not to love is ice

cream and coffee for breakfast to the shop we've actually come to is called black garlic I'm pretty

sure I read there's something in the Brewing process that involves garlic and and we get

like a little bit of garlic on the side as well but I'm really curious to see if I can actually

taste any of that in the Brew itself it's so fancy I don't think I've had a I've copied this fancy

ever can't taste any garlic at all that is strong Vietnamese coffee and like stronger

than normal strong Vietnamese coffee it's almost too hot for me at the moment maybe

[Music]

unless you are a fan of strong coffee and I mean strong I would recommend getting the

cream because the ice cream melts and it makes it this creamy sugary deliciousness but o I

feel like my eyes are bugging out after having just a couple of sips of the black ones [Music]

and our next stop KFC just kidding we wouldn't go to KFC bye-bye you having

[Music]

fun the B

oh yeah one yeah yeah one Ser thank you come after about a 15minute walk into the suburb

area of dant we've come to a place called arat and that's because they're supposed

to have one of the best band cans which is mini cakes or can cakes in English I'm not

really sure what to expect but if online is anything to go by it might be similar to what

we had in La this place is super cute there are heaps of chairs where the the only ones in here

and a beautiful mural painted on the back of the wall that honestly looks real like it does look

like a building the people look fake but it looks like the real building do I think it's cuz of the

roof at the front of the shop there's these three huge silver things and in them there's all of

these Circle rounds that they just get filled with the egg batter and all of the toppings

on top plus we got this super cute oh I think it's filled with a sauce that we dunk them in

they look nothing like what we got in L bang at all so I don't know what I saw online but these

are different there's four different options here and we went for the chicken and beef one

ooh weird but good yeah not bad is it's what you expect like it's an egg M it's like a frittata

in a crunchy casing and the sauce that came on the side is filled with scallions fried onions

beautiful so it was 48,000 Vietnamese Dong and it comes with eight we almost got one serving

each so really glad we didn't so it's like it's almost like a rice paper cup with uh an egg like

a frittata frittata and then in that whatever you choose yeah okay very simple but really

delicious they got served on this wooden basket and what's really cool is the mural inside here

shows I guess the original way of making these on a clay pot over an open fire that would be pretty

cool bit of a rookie error on our part we didn't have enough cash so I'm going to

sit here as collateral while Jordan goes on about a half hour journey to an ATM whoops

[Music]

motorbikes are fun we got a motorbike back ooh the next food we're getting

we have technically had before but not the Da Lat way but the

shop is about a half an hour away and we're going to take the scenic route

[Music]

there is a huge Lake in the center of deat so we've come to walk around that

one of the most popular things to do here is an Alpine Coaster it's almost like a Lou

and we were so close to going but Jordan was double-checking the prices this morning and it

out you have to pay like an entrance fee and then pay for the ride as well so it

was just outside of our budget for doing something like that I think if we were in

Switzerland obviously the price would probably be tripled if not more but the views would be

insane there I might consider it a bit more plus this is a food tour we're not meant to

be doing experiences so instead we'll sit by the water and wait until we're hungry again [Music]

[Music]

we were Googling where to go for the next dish and this is one of the top rated places

on Google Maps it is very loud but the owner is super sweet we walked in and he

just said bu me J ma I said yep one please and now we're sitting out the front waiting

out the front we've got incredibly busy road there's Road works and just an insane amount

of motorbikes and then in here there's local music just blasting which is nice Ambience

I guess they try to drown that out but for our purposes not not great just get into the

party [Music] buds so we have had bar me before it is one of our favorite Vietnamese dishes but

in theat and I think throughout the country there is a version of it called bar me Jan

M Sho mine which is bar me with meatball soup I've been calling it like a deconstructed bar

me I have no idea what to expect though all I know is Bread soup meatballs

yeah I'm pretty sure from the research I've done it's a pork meatball in a hearty broth with the

bread on the side and you dunk it sounds amazing sounds like a meatball sub from Subway but like

10 times better wow thank you perf perfect thank it absolutely passes the smell test it

actually smells like Italian meat I'm assuming we just cut the birad open and put the meatballs

in like we make a b me or do we we dunk I think get dunk we dunk it's [Music] toasted that is a

super hearty soup outside and the bread is so fresh I think this was baked this morning let

me get some meat [Music] for this is going to be your new favorite bar meat the meat

is so tender it melts in your mouth and then the crunch from the bread delicious [Music]

the broth is delicious there's a tiny bit of spice to [Music] it it like falls apart

in your mouth but inside it is just like a burst of flavor it's like the broth but

then times two this is my new favorite bun me we might need to order another

one that was delicious it's like a perfect lend between two of my favorite Cuisines

Vietnamese and Italians one thing that always freaks me out in places like this though is we

don't know how much that was so John's going to go pay and fingers crossed it's not crazy how

much was it I was 25,000 Vietnamese Dong or $150 Australian on to the next [Music] [Applause] place

all right this was not part of the plan but we saw it on line so we're going in this is

crazy can we please get two saon be thank you go around on thep yeah and outside on

the and the garden yeah you can find a way a if we can find a way it is a maze

place even the stairs are crazy we had heard about this place in Da Lat there's a hotel in D

lovingly referred to as the crazy house you can actually stay there I was so close to booking

us there cuz it's not wildly expensive and there's all these different themed

rooms what was getting me close to booking is there was a kangaroo room but it's kind

of freaky cuz there's this huge kangaroo statue like staring over your bed but the

same architect that designed that designed this bar I bought the beers asked if we

could go upstairs and she said I think you should go downstairs into the maze

first what you're going to have to hunch so much wa go what how do you keep something like this

clean what the so it is a proper maze you can go up there or down there do you remember the tunnels

in Budapest yeah except that was like real freaky like someone was going to jump out of you you're

inside of a mouth at the moment if you're inat you have to come here this is crazy she kind of

giggled when she let us in here and said if we can make it through there's like a garden at the end

so I don't know if this maze is intentionally meant to be hard you are so blue imagine being

drunk in here I'd be lost in a heartbeat imagine being drunk in here with a bunch of people like

you turn the corner and there's people there's so many little cocoons that you could go sit down and

have a drink in this must be the first little bar area maybe the second who knows we are so

higher up than I thought what level are we on I think we made it to like the third level but I

definitely saw more stairs going further up so I guess we'll check that out after we're going

to sit here and have our beers it is raining but we got a nice view of the city and a bit

of cover not bad nice like surprise for a food tour day we genuinely weren't planning on coming

here but as we walked past the rain started so it's like the universe was telling us go in

[Music]

this way sure unless it goes down yeah good we did it wa this is crazy this

Garden is hectic there's so many levels up and again it's like a a maze going up

it just keeps going and going and going we did it it we made it to the very top

of the maze bar now the rain stopped so back to the food tour Freedom that was

good there are two pretty unusual things about me one I really like to soak in the tub and two

I never grew out of my fondness for milk so when I heard that the last meal that we were getting

in the lab was a milk drink I was pretty excited you know when you're a kid and your parents give

you a glass of milk with dinner no matter what Jordan has never grown out of that he still if

he can Will have a glass of milk with his dinner it is the weirdest thing I'm a growing boy so we

read online that when it gets late and a little bit cooler here in deette the locals like to have

War milk and pastries and they dip the pastries in the war milk as like a nighttime snack it is

not night yet so we only found one place that was barely open and managed to get this but

I'm really excited to try the only issue is that it's not regular milk it's soy milk and when you

say warm soy milk even I'm a bit like so you might notice a theme throughout some of these

Foods here in Da Lat and that is that they are very warming or comforting and that's because

the temperature here is generally a little bit cooler than other places in Vietnam and I read

online as the temperature begins to drop it's apparently a simple but beloved drink that's

associated with warmth and relaxation after a day of exploring so this is the perfect way to

end a food tour apparently you can get like a condensed milk version or just a sugar version

of this we had a bit of a language barer so I don't know what we got it's raining ah

quick I really like it it's like warming and comforting and as the rain comes down I feel

good on the inside because of this let's trying to quickly try it we can go home yeah I kind of

get it it's like the Vietnamese version of milk and cookies if I'm honest I knew I was going to

enjoy a Vietnamese food but I had no idea that Da Lat would have so many unique Foods vers the

rest of Vietnam like there's so many specific to Da Lat things and I'm sure you can get them

in other places but they're just ubiquitous here anyway what are we doing next hopefully next time

you see us we'll be trading in the rain for some sunshine on a beach to get to Vietnam's Tropical

Coast we got what we like to call a catfish bus see you looking at these videos probably think

that this looks unbelievably comfortable and don't get me wrong they are better than normal buses but

they are not as comfortable as you think they are luckily it was only 4 hours and we made it to a

train we were going to film here but we love this town so much that we decided to disconnect for a

few days and celebrate Emily's birthday with our toes in the sand also we have been here before and

we did make a vlog it's a bit older but I'll link it here tonight we are catching an overnight train

in Vietnam it's currently about 6:00 and our first class sleeper train leaves in 30 minutes

just checking

out the whole journey should take about 11 hours we're leaving from here in N Trang heading 500 km

North and if all goes to plan we should arrive in dang at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning you can book

these tickets online but we came here yesterday and booked in person and that's for two reasons

the first is it actually saved us a little bit of money in Booking fees and the second is we

guaranteed ourselves the bottom bunk which we know from experience is fast period I am super grateful

that we ate before we came here cuz generally we just assume that there's going to be some sort of

food option at the train station turns out in the train there is a cafe that sells some ice

creams and a mini M with some potato chips train se22 is arriving on track one fire one saf please

do not cross the tracks in the station and this absolutely necessary if you need to cross the

tracks please follow any instructions of the way we [Applause] start oo we're looking for

13 hello hello how are you this is us wow this is so much better than the last Vietnam train we

got as you can probably tell I don't think we're going to be alone tonight so I want to do a super

quick tour while we're not interrupting other people's sleep this is first class which might

seem odd given that we have to share a room I think you normally think first class means

at the front of the plane something private in Vietnam trains that is not the case so we have

these you know decently thick mattresses the sheets look really clean Decor 10 out

of 10 doesn't that look like it's the window and you're just driving past a sunset there little

foot things you have to be quite flexible and don't wear a skirt cuz if you're up on the top

buk it's a bit of a workout we have the two bottom bunks it looks like we get a pretty plushy pillow

doesn't smell super clean it's okay a comforter which I would say I can't imagine using but on

our last train the air conditioner was blasting so I was freezing a lot of the night might need

this it looks like everybody has their own little NightLight that has a USB charger as well super

handy a cute little desk this is a benefit of having the bottom bunk we get to use this top bunk

looks like they get some storage above and all of the switches so they're in charge of the lights I

think you know want a bus you normally have one of those little air conditioner

controls turns out there's not air conditioning in here there's just 50 of

those I don't know why that's so funny just turns out there is also Hooks and Hangers in

case you need to hang some things a bin and proper Outlets so we could charge our laptops if we want

to there is also a quintessential southeast Asia thing and that is shoes inside shoes I'm assuming

these are actually for you to take and wear to the bathroom cuz it is kind of annoying to

have to put on your sneakers every time you want to go to the bathroom cuz obviously you're not

going Barefoot right de don't do that I used to hate when people did that on the planes so this

is the first class option as Emily was saying but it is a four birth there is also a second

class option which is six birth and a second class seated option which is literally like a bus seat

for the entire 11 hours and please don't do that one that one would hurt so much but over the last

couple of years they have actually introduced like a private VIP class they're calling it and

it's a a cabin just like this but only two vs and we couldn't come to Vietnam for a second time and

do all these different trains and not experience that so our next leg is going to be in that super

expensive super luxurious private cabin bye-bye money please watch our YouTube videos we need to

get that money back if you know us you know that that we love train travel and I'm super

excited to be comparing tonight's experience to what will I'm sure be a better experience in a

couple of days time it is 6:29 right now so the train should leave in about 1 minute which means

we might be alone for the start that's some pretty clouds I know from a very very brief

introduction this train looks magnitudes better than the last train we took I just in Vietnam

there are different train types like government run ones and more private tourist ones but this

is the same level that we took 2 years ago and it feels infinitely better right we had dirty

sheets I'm pretty sure and she like yelled at me for asking for clean ones you remember that

yeah while we stopped I thought I'd run to the bathroom so it's quiet and you canar

hear me for a super quick toilet tour it seems like there is one Western and one

squatty puty almost per Carriage our Carriage technically doesn't have one you have to cross

over to the next section to be able to access the bathroom there is a toilet a bedet a a bin

toilet paper and a sink with running water as well as a little mirror it is quite wet

in here because of the pet but honestly it's really not that bad it doesn't smell too bad

yet there is a window so that should open and help with the smell during the night pretty

good wow you have to press and hold the flush for 8 seconds all in all I'd give this a C+ maybe a B

minus it is 6:53 and we haven't left yet according to our tickets and everything

that's available online we should be getting into dang at 5:55 in the morning but we're

already running late so I think to make us interesting we're going to put a clock on

we should get there in 11 hours hope that graphic

Works Ando you C and rest and and [ __ ] and cola and beer uh chips chip no chip no chip uh

how much 40 40 yes thank you so much what did you oh thank you that was such a nice

surprise everything happened all at once and it continues we took off I was in the bathroom a

lady with a food cart came by so Jordan got us some miscellanous fruit that apparently

is mango I don't know what that is I asked she said it's mango and I said but what's that and

she just smiled said should we make the [Music] beds I do feel like that's thicker than the last

train as well W I'll be the first to admit that I have recency bias and I think maybe

my excitement got the better of me that we were alone in this cabin for a while it looked a lot

newer than what I had expected turns out it's not as clean as I thought there are some hairs

on the sheets which makes me think that they don't get changed between people the toilet a

pron reflection and me going back to actually use it definitely is like a c or SE minus probably a

c minus I think I'm still being nice trying to be harsh so you have the right expectations all

right now what do we do I don't know what is that kind of looks like guava guava might be

ah don't think it's meant to be that hard and dry

[Music]

oo it's quite sour money must it there is plenty of room for bags in here even if we

had two guests that also had rolly bags like us I have rearranged my section so

I have my rolly bag around here and then my backpack and then I'm going to have my

handbag the closest to my head because of my anxiety if someone opens the door during the

night they'll take my rolly bag the bag I care least about then if they're still going for my

stuff they'll get my backpack the bag I kind of care about by then I should be awake and

like getting them before they get to the one I really care about my handbag [Music]

[Music] it's only the 8:00 got a nice early teethbrush always

hits well I'm going to do some night time exploring before we settle in the [Music]

bed that's definitely new I had no idea there was like a restaurant cart on board there's a

full menu and everything you can order from and it kind of look and smell good kind of wish I

spoke Vietnamese cuz they look like they were having a really good time I'm going to try to

back of the train all right I found the second class sleeper which is the six bunks but I think

I only got to the carriage that was the workmen people that are on the train where they sleep

and I can't get any further so I couldn't get through a cing class but it is getting bumpier

jeez apparently some of the cabins have hot and cold water you could

just like get twoa noodles and cook them yourself

what did you find found the dining car o and I barely got any shots of it because

every all the workers were like what are you doing here I but it got super

Rocky on my way back I was like yeah what's the restaurant car like smells

good that's nice no one spoke any English yeah and I didn't speak of

vietnames I'm not that hungry anyway we ate dinner beforehand yeah I didn't think that there'd be a

restaurant car no that's better than you at the same time the VIP like two sleeper cabins came

in seems like they had a reband we still don't have roommates but I think it's late enough now

that we're going to turn the lights off try to get some sleep hopefully not be woken up

immediately I guess unless anything eventful happens we'll see you in the morning [Music]

[Music]

please it's 5:35 and we're getting very close this whole journey was a private

cabin for us no one came in but every time we stopped the announcement was so

loud and every time it went off I was like oh this will be the time someone comes in

and no one ever did we should back up how are you so energetic cuz trains are fun

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

morning we just got woken up with a very classical music potentially the Vietnamese Anthem then the

sweet lady came and knocked on the door and confirmed what we believed to be true

that these sheets do not get switched out they just get folded up for the next person [Music]

it's a

penguin no thank you and we've officially made it to dang we were scheduled to arrive at 5:55 and it

is 6:11 now so that's pretty good despite leaving like half an l l that's not bad they made up

time for sure I would say the bed themselves are thicker than I remember and I got some pretty good

sleep on them but we woke up every couple of hours for the announcement of the next stop which was

really loud it genuinely felt like every time they played it they turned it up a notch like

during the middle of the night I swear it was the loudest thing I've ever heard there was also

a point where it felt like a washing machine like it was a really rough I quite like that

though like rocks been to sleep not for me and we have the cabin all to ourselves every time

the announcement went off that we were stopping at a new station I was like this is it this is when

someone comes in also I need to invest in some form of eye mask that has like headphones cuz I

don't like sleeping with my big overe ones but I sleep better with them and I just had my t-shirt

over my eyes so it was very makeshift anyway our journey does not stop here we're actually

catching another bus or taxi or something to Hoy an another couple of hours down the road but

we're not going to film it let's go get a [Music] coffee we've been in Vietnam for a while now just

zigzagging around the south of the country and one thing that stuck out to me the entire time

is just how affordable it is I actually decided to look it up and it is consistently ranked in

the top three most affordable countries to travel to so to put that to the test

today we have challenged ourselves to spend $100 exploring the city of hoan in Vietnam we

want to explore the Oldtown eat some food get a good coffee but you can't count any budget

without including the hotel so our spendable money is already down to [Music] $75 poan is

split into two areas the ancient Oldtown with all of the beautiful architecture restaurants

and bars that's where we stayed last year or 4 km away is the beach and that's where

we're staying this year very relaxing very stop and drop not as much going on here so

to get into the old town we could either walk for 50 minutes pay for a grab or not bad yeah

ready yeah you're left or right okay I'm going okay I'll come with you okay this is so fun

so these bikes cost 70,000 dong each or a$1 140 for both that's about $8.30 Australian leaving

us with like $66 ride should take about 20 25 minutes and we'll be in the Oldtown [Music]

[Music]

these bikes are super old school like they're reminding me of the bike I used to have at my

grandparents house you pedal and you pedal and all of a sudden the bike is just going

as fast as it can so your pedals don't matter anymore you're doing all this effort and it's

not actually paying off it is extremely hot to today but we have ended up in an area where

we're just surrounded by rice Patty fields and water buffalo which is so cool I think

it's still like a 10-minute bike until we get into town though and I cannot wait for a coffee

[Music]

this is so pretty we're officially in

[Music] Oldtown look how you are oh my

goodness that was a brutal riding a lot harder than I expected but we were stopping all the

time in the sun to like put up the Drone and get camera shots and yeah it wasn't hard like

it wasn't hilly or anything like that just hot and sweaty perfectly flat almost the whole way

from here to the beach and then as soon as we got into town it got so busy it was quite

intimidating so we kind of put the camera away because we were just focused on Surviving but we

have made it to Oldtown where you can see the famous architecture and the yellow buildings

here apparently they painted them yellow because it's meant to be a local tradition of like Royal

and luck and financial benefit but other people also think that it's mainly to just

keep the temperature down inside which makes a lot of sense to me what yellow

reflects the heat apparently wow I didn't know that probably not as good as like white

but yeah it's more aesthetic it looks cool yeah we've locked the bikes up I think we're

going to have a little walk around town before we go to our first paid activity

[Music]

for those of you that have seen our videos in the past you might notice this one looks

a little bit different that's because I made a very expensive mistake a couple of

days ago and our main lens for our main camera is not working anymore it's going

to be fine it's in at the shop getting fixed hopefully right now if it can't

be fixed that's like $2,000 so spend as much as you want on holiday is what I'm trying to

say we're not counting the camera repair in the budget because that is unforeseen

accidental circumstances that no one should feel bad about right I feel bad about [Music]

it love that exploring the town was like a free Mark for us today but we're on to the next thing

which is not free one of my Fondest Memories from being in a hoyan the first time was we got to try

egg coffee here and we sat at the cafe for so long enjoying the coffee and I really want to go

back and have another one but Vietnamese coffee is extremely strong and where we're going now I think

we're going to have about five of them for the budget we could have easily gotten a single coffee

each maybe a nice iced coconut coffee for the heat but because we've been to hoyan before we were on

the lookout for something we have never done and that's when we came across a coffee making class

so we get to learn how to make Vietnamese coffee today I think we get five it did blow

out the budget slightly because there was maybe a mishap with booking we thought we found a cheaper

discount turns out it was an American dollars not Australian so we paid a little more than we

should have long story short this is costing about $40 for both of us but I do think lunch is going

to be on the cheaper side Welcome to our coffee making glass and welcome to our family business

my name is link everybody today my family would like to show you how to make vietamese coffeee

the first one that is the black coffee and then white coffee and then the egg coffee saled coffee

and coconut coffee Five Coffee in 2 hours that's why I recommend you don't ring all of them just

the ring a little or have better because I'm worry if you finish my cup of the coffee today and you

will fall down here egg coffee is a Vietnamese classic and one that we were super interested

to learn how to make turns out it's an egg yolk concoction with a bunch of different sugars and

condensed milk you whip it up and try to pour it into your mug bloody wind next you take a shot

of strong Vietnamese coffee add it to the mixture before filling the outside bowl with hot water as

it turns out this helps get rid of that eggy smell and slowly Cooks the egg mixture and it's probably

no surprise that with all of those sugars this is delicious you did it's going to blow everywhere

next up we're on to Emily's favorite the coconut coffee this one felt like a science

experiment me spending you need coconut cream whipping cream condensed milk and

then it's shaken over ice and poured whip the black coffee until it becomes nice and

foamy in texture and then add it to the top delicious okay we kind of lost the filming in

there and we were more focused on the coffee making course we got to make five different

coffees salt coffee coconut coffee coffee egg coffee condensed milk coffee and classic black

Vietnamese coffee it was all so much fun my favorite is definitely coconut coffee but it

was super interesting learning about all of the history why salt coffee is a thing it's

because Sailors back in the day were making their way to qu in Vietnam they didn't have

any water so they just used ocean water that had salt in it and it tasted really good and

it's not just a coffee making course it is also karaoke party time in there

it was so much fun but now we need to eat OU

literally go go go go go I don't even know where I'm going back to old to

[Music]

nice oh this is such a nice view so the ancient old city of hoen is incredible to

drive through the yellow building stand out so much and it's just like picturesque everywhere

apparently it's 844 UNESCO houses here it's a mix of French architecture there's like

old wooden Chinese houses and Japanese shrines it's a really Melting Pot of

cultures which speaks for the food as well a dish we got here 2 years ago literally sitting on that

River there we literally had it along here that's so good that's like it is kind of like a cow soy

that's different flavors a little bit less wet has become one of our top three favorite foods

globally naturally we've come here to get it again it's 50,000 dong per person which will

end up being about $3 each and brings our budget down to roughly $16 left so we're not doing too

bad we had to splurge and get cold drinks as well cuz it is hot today considering our last spending

challenge was a complete fail I think we're going to have to call this a fail cuz of the weather

I don't know how we spent so much money and got so many things and yet this is a fail I'm happy

with the fact that we're even getting this close cuz I think this is already closer than we got in

changai this is cow which is made of thick rice noodles barbecued pork herbs and crud

and it is delicious it's in this very simple Savory pork almost gravy with soy sauce and

it is just Divine in its simplicity so the first record of cow was in the 17th century when Chinese

and Japanese Traders frequented the hoyam port they brought their own Cuisines with them and it

turned into this dish like Jordan said last time we were here we absolutely fell in love with this

dish I think we ate it every single day we were in hoan and we have been dreaming about it ever since

you know when you think about something for way too long or you look back on something and you're

never really sure if it's going to live up to your dreams if you were to have it again cuz you could

be looking back with rose-colored glasses or only at the positives but this tastes just as good as I

remember M are

happy chopsticks

[Music]

going to

the all right we're officially fed I think it's time we get watered in the old

town so we use this microphone when we're filming we think it sounds great when it

works but they've got these dials on the back here the trouble is that these dials don't lock

in so when we were on the bike in hoyen they got completely changed to zero which means the

rest of our audio sounds like this we ended up running the audio through an enhancer and

it came out sounding a little bit strange sometimes we sound like we're underwater

sometimes we sound like elves sometimes we sound like aliens but to be honest done is better than

perfect okay we made fing rack decision ruin driving back to so we're going to

and some fishes get fear maybe something to eat and we broadcast this restaurant that we had a

fear at last time we did so we had to come back one of our strongest and Fondest Memories is from

this restaurant it was me accidentally being a bit of an idiot I said it another round but

I said it kind of weirdly I always say it to each other for the te now some has to come back and get

another house uh fortunately Li is are a bit more expensive when I remember thing lost every ear was

[Music] Happ we're just didn't sat here reminiscing of ear year one memories and I

just can't even imagine if we would have found to us from two years ago we would not believe

that we listed with tring and so on and trying to be the hon countries which should C go that

if you looking on Bank do really make sense to set it's making me laugh because we're factual

our own blogging set up because St and drop for w that we're not going to talk about or think about

because if we have to replace that there's no way we're going to truth but we have $88 left

and we could just sit here thinking about all the good turns but instead we're going

to go Sunway and try and spve the rest of that money that without to in with them FR a beach

and everything happened all at once who would be and it wouldn't be at without someone trying

to S some to ended up paying 7,000 a deck of f something we spot this here this spee is for easy

quiet said is

somewhere in the asan sitting just of the action while this beach is ruin us I think

staying in the old town and I'm here for half days is OB to get cuz we only had $1 left cup

noodles for [Music] dinner we are about to board the most expensive overnight train in Vietnam that

we have ever booked Emily's still upset about the tickets we're not getting any money back in

this video we're going to show you exactly what the cabin is like rate the amenities on board

and compare this train with the less expensive counterpart probably a c minus I think I'm still

being nice ending with our final thoughts on whether this train is worth your money or

not these tickets cost an eye watering $280 Australian dollar and if your first instinct

is to jump into the comments and tell us that it's cheaper to fly you are 100%

correct but that would have involved flying to Hanoi and then catching a bus down to

been from there so really we're saving money and effort attention pleas the

train is about to arrive at theway station on track one for passengers

with2 9 and 10 I'm so

confused h

not what we expected quite a few initial thoughts this is essentially exactly what we did last time

we've just paid for four beds instead of the two like the decor is different all of the pictures

online though these don't exist so you could sit up quite comfortably whereas this like I

mean I don't know how you're doing it my head's touching the roof they do go up we're just we're

not allowed to turns out that courage broke down unexpectedly so this isn't what we booked or paid

for and I said oh should we get like a refund for the price difference and she's just like no

so please like this video so we can try and make some of the money back with what we earned from

YouTube at least I'm not going crazy at least our expectations were correct it's just they've

had a malfunction and like I can forgive that it's nothing's going to be perfect every time like she

was so apologetic and like please sympathize with us like it was so it was unexpected breakdown we

didn't anticipate it so it's not their fault I'm not going to be like oh no fix it so that explains

this but we're going we left exactly on time for the delay everything's going crazy while Emily

comes to terms with our living situation I'm going to try and explore the rest of the train

[Music]

and that's it pretty much us and the next three carriages are very very similar The Branding

changes so you don't have these fluffy white duvet and pillows you have the standard really really

thin stuff which don't look too comfortable and then eventually you get to that six birth second

class sleeper as you go down the Train the cool automatic doors become manual doors and the really

nice fancy looking single bathroom areas become like dual vanity areas but that's pretty much the

only change I think really the upgrade that we're getting is all in the service so you can book

this train the se2 train and there's multiple different carriages you can choose from and

that's because they have like the government run Vietnam Railway train and then people like the L

Express or the Orient Express or probably not that one but one of the other expresses

just hit your ride and they they all go together because our Carriage broke down we're actually

hijacking the lman express so this Carriage is a totally different company to what we booked

[Music]

okay well Jordan was off exploring I did some inspections of the room and it seems like it's

pretty basic and pretty similar to what we did the last time we do have very fluffy and cushy

pillows I think they might have snuck these from the broken down Carriage because not everyone has

as nice big fluffy ones as this and a huge white fluffy duvet again I think this was nabbed from

where we were meant to be because not everyone has something this luxurious everything's pretty

clean the top bunks do have some of that black soot on it that I think is falling out of the

air event when we sat down we both thought it felt quite hard and that is because instead

of high quality luxurious mattress like we're meant to have in the cabin we ordered they've

just stacked two of the cheapy ones on top of each other again I think they're trying to make do or

make good because of the broken down incident so I appreciate the effort but it's it's not

uh doing what I think they think it's doing what else we have a lovely little desk that you can't

really use at all because it has this ornamental bike on it so you can't actually use it if you

wanted to get some work done you're not going to get it done here we have an outlet bedside

lamps I think that's it there's plenty of space for your bags underneath the bottom bunks and

above the door coat hangers little bedside lights a cute curtains and plants they gave us some mugs

for something they're really trying the biggest difference of this cabin has got to be the fact

that we can lock the door during the night because no one else is meant to be coming in

here which we thought they would be last time which just will give us some peace of mind and

hopefully will mean that we can sleep a little bit better what's nice is that we booked the SE

2 because it leaves in the afternoon from dang does get in super early to ninin but it means

we actually get to watch the Vietnam Countryside go by so I think I'm going to just sit like this

that's pretty nice wow fun yeah something to be said for getting the afternoon train 100%

get in the afternoon train where you've got nice bed and you've got a view better [Music]

the room also came with this little green book and I was flicking through it and got

to read about the cabin where meant to be in two both compartments with airon

large space luxurious interior design high quality mattress cotton blankets sheets and

cushions to make Travelers comfortable this compartment passengers are served

with drinks coffees and meals free of charge security cameras are installed in the corridor

and internet connection is also provided I'm not sure if we're going to get any of that

also says the menu that we should be getting to choose from again I'm not sure if we're

going to get this because it's a different train well it's the same train but it's a

different Carriage so I don't know I don't know all right let what the world go by yeah [Music]

super quick toilet to a wall it's not Heap busy there is a western style toilet it's

so FY I really don't know if you'll be able to hear me I feel like we're going

through somewhere really creepy it's really pretty though there's a window

there's not very much to go through it's not super modern or redone like the photos

of the carriage we meant to be in look like but it's a toilet that flushes there's toilet paper

a bin the window op so hopefully it doesn't get too too smelly even in here even though

it's already wo it does feel quite spacious and that's because there's no sink in here

it's actually on the way back to the carriages there's a little hand washing station which I

think is a great idea there's also a bum gun I learned that that's the term for the little hose

thing he did not like us in the end I tried to ask how much of

coffee was and he just gave them to us and then he told us and they were

too much what that meant to be included yeah the book does say they're included

I am very curious what's going to happen with this book here saying that we're supposed to

get food included coffee drinks we did actually go to the shop before we got on

board just in case cuz we had no idea what was going to be

on here so we do have snacks but I hope we get fed that' be a nice surprise yeah

[Music]

I am pumped up I take back everything negative we've said I feel like we've been complaining

a little bit but the view news from this train I was like sticking my head out the window and

getting some shots it is stunning and I know that's not dependent on what cabin you book

is just the route of the train but having the comfort of our own room to sit back and look

at this Priceless I feel like you come to a country to see a country yes it costs a

bit of money but this is such a good way to see the country no ragrets that's My

Credo no regrets mhm you have no regrets Dad no like not even a single letter so

yes we could have flown probably cheaper I do think it would have been quite close because

we have to check in our bags the prices were maybe $50 difference in the end when we were calculating

it but you do not get this when you fly plus we get to make a fun video for you and and

have this memory to look back on forever I think that's worth it honestly if we get served dinner

sitting like this I'm a happy man I mean you can't do this on a plan without paying thousands of is

[Music]

[Music] thought I would put to the test what having a private room is like in the sense

of what we get out of it so for me if we have a private room I would assume I can get some

work done on the laptop which I have I would also assume that I can have my standard hotel

room nighttime routine so we're going to put that to the test now step one pajamas done I

know you could do this if you had a shared room like you could just go to the bathroom

and get changed but it's quite nice being able to just do it in here next we're going to take

off the makeup and I am giving the private room a little bit of a head start because we're just

going to use this which only requires water so I could really do this [Music] anywhere I knew that

this as far as silence and noise cancelling goes it's not great everyone's yelling in the

hallway isn't in their rooms but I knew that this cabin didn't have a sink in it when we

were coming tonight which is why I packed this rather than my normal oil cleanser because that

would mean going to the bathroom luckily it is like a separate hand wash station so it

get points for that just not as many points as if we had a sink in here cool that is my super

quick nighttime routine on a train if a hotel or a standard night was a 10 out of 10 I would rank

this probably a five out of 10 not the worst it could be like sleeping in my makeup but not the

best it could be with a sink in here or an entire bathroom in here hopefully I'll sleep better with

that though I'm not going to brush my teeth yet cuz we're still hopeful that we might get dinner

turns out we did get dinner so the little book has a menu of four or five different options

that you can pick from but she just showed up with some food so I honestly don't know what

half of it is and peanuts it's room temperature also room temperature the rice has been warmed

recently I have no idea what this is we are really grateful we do live really good lives the's not

bad quite salty it's just an expectation thing like from the get-go we probably

had two high expectations and that's because of the price of the ticket you pay that much

for a overnight journey in Southeast Asia you think it's going to be a little bit more

luxurious like but that's E I think as well because the last train we had it was a cabin

exactly like this and we were alone the entire night and we paid half the price yeah less than

half and it arguably was a wider cabin yeah this one feels really tight like between here yeah

really loud guy that goes around selling drinks and stuff it was only 20,000 dong

for a beer not bad yeah which really is not bad and also the the massive bow buns that

the woman was selling earlier they were in the 20,000 too so if you didn't come on here

with any food I'd probably get a beer and a bun over this all right think it's time we rush our

teeth bathroom update for those that are interested it's is dirtier there's a sign

that says do not like squat I guess or stand on the toilet seat and someone has

very obviously ignored that sign I also very selfishly use the last of the toilet paper

that was currently in there luckily I do still have a lot with me but I'm hoping it'll also

get replaced also someone had a cigarette in there and that was it like an entire cigarette

but just on the floor so about a two of 10 just set her alarm for 3:30 everyone says

niman is really beautiful so this should be worth it such a heavy blanket yeah wow

luxurious actually really nice yeah yeah ooh this is nice this feel a

lot more luxurious than the last one right night

[Music]

[Applause]

made it's a Ninh Binh yay the early morning's not fun but the sleep was okay it's 4:18 so we did get

in late but we left late so that makes sense how did you sleep s really good I think the cold room

combined with the heavy blanket really helped I think the heavy blanket kind of did most of the

work there I didn't realize how cold it was in the room until the next morning I picked up the camera

and it was like wet from condensation for me it was when I took a sip of water and it tasted like

it had come out of the fridge yeah that'll do it it was a little bit noisy but I slept pretty well

too there's like Windows on the side that you can pull down and stick your head out I don't know if

you're supposed to but you can and I think people in our compartment or in our carriage pulled their

window down but didn't realize how to pull it back up or something so it was open all night and

we had that clatter all night but we were on the other side of the carriage to that so not too bad

I more meant the people that were like yelling at midnight that's true I didn't

hear Too Much yelling after I fell asleep but I would say the Peace of Mind of having

your own door that you can lock was great Emily's still upset about the

tickets we're not getting any money back we saved about $8 per ticket booking direct at the train

station and at the time we loved that we thought that was great but now there's no one that we can

talk to and say Hey you sold us this and we got this do we get any money back and I think that's

the really big benefit of booking with companies like one too Asia is you have that middleman to

say what was promised was not delivered is there anything you can do about it kind of

thing again not to be grumpy not to complain we got here it was it was a private room just

expectations good morning good morning

I guess the question of is that expensive train worth it will remain unanswered because

we didn't get it but we' made it to Ninh Binh our accommodation here has let us check into

a smaller room early before our main room is ready and it's still like 6:00 in the morning

so that's pretty nice of them haven't seen any of Ninh Binh yet cuz it was Pitch Black

on the way here all we know is Everyone likes to ride bikes we see you tomorrow

good morning from the Epic town of Ninh Binh Vietnam if we're being specific we're actually

in the town of Tam Coc right next to Ninh Binh Vietnam but it's equally as gorgeous this is

a whole region of Vietnam we completely missed last time we were here and today

we're exploring it our first activity starts at 7:00 and it's already [Music]

6:30 are we here too early there's literally no

one here in the shops are all sh Oh by boat only boat yeah just

boat okay thank you which rout do you recommend ah okay thank you because of

the high level of the water they've had to adjust this looks more like

tiet office so there are apparently three different boat routes that you can take

with all differing number of caves that you go through or historical sites there's also

a fourth option these days because the water level is so high they had to change the route

a little bit 250,000 dong per person to get in the boat they usually wait till they're filled

up with four before they go but because we're filming and we want to try and fly the Drone

without injuring people we got a whole bur to ourselves for 1 million dog bye-bye money [Music]

will you read online that this place opens at 7:00 a.m. and we got here maybe 2 minutes

before and there were already people inside getting tickets and there are

people ahead of us but we're completely alone so get here early plus you beat the

Heat this is so romantic

byebye they're all so beautiful apparently the police are monitoring who's wearing their life

jackets but you can sneakily take them off for photos if you want I'm not going to lose

you so because of all of the weather recently the waters are quite High which means that they can't

access some of the caves so instead of having three routs like they normally is it's one and

everyone is doing it so I'm super glad that we got here early in the morning when there's

not heaps of people cuz everyone's going in the same direction like we're not going to split up

off I think the normal routs there's some that are 3 hours and some that are 1 and

1/2 the route that we're doing today is 2 and 1/2 hours nice there is so many boats

like they are prepped for so many people this would just be filled when it's busy [Music]

so it seems like during this boat tour you get to hop off and go through some

little sites and caves I think that's where we're going next Jack

it thank you I think we made her on the other side [Music]

cuz there's lights on in the cave that makes me wonder if that one when the water is lower

you can go through or in all of the boats are making fun of Jordan cuz when he hops on it

goes I hop on I feel like it was quite smooth low center of gravity

calm Jordan just hopes for the best Stomps on all the ladies were laughing at him it was very funny

so these Cliffs around here are built exactly like how long bay and sometimes this place is

referred to as the how long bay on land it's old Limestone deposits from millions of years

ago that have just been slowly whittled Away by wind and rain leaving these just epic Cliff

faces with green growing out of them and it's just such a Jurassic Park sort of SE

and I can see why it's like one of the biggest attractions in Vietnam can't believe we missed

it last time one of the biggest benefits of getting up early and doing this is it's just

really us like there are definitely other boats on the water but they're so far away that we can't

even hear them all we can hear is our paddles hitting the water it's so nice it's so romantic

[Music]

[Laughter]

apparently I look like messy we drove drove past

went past a boat full of kids and they were all yelling out messy

messy I don't see it that photo I kind of get it dark hair beard messy wow wow we just emerged

from the cave and it's even more Serene like you can hear even less now I feel bad talking

at this volume yeah seems to so these temples almost all of them cannot be reached by any

other way got away bug cannot be reached by any way cannot be reached by anywhere these temples

cannot be reached by so these temples we're going to I just need you to not laugh once I'm just not

going to cut this I'm going to leave so these temples that we're going to almost all of them

have only one way to reach them and that is by boat so kind of feels like we're part of

a select few but at the end of the day there's thousands of people every day that do this boat

so but with this timing like coming first thing in the morning it does feel like we're are handful

of people there's no one behind us yeah there's one boat in front of us how did they build stuff

like this nature did nature built that building yeah sticks my guns I wonder what these flags

[Music]

are I think it's just your center of gravity like a cat wow [Music]

[Music]

wow you better go first Cal good

I love that our drivers just kind of wait for us there and they have like their own little little

friends it's quite nice I feel bad like taking our driver away from my friends I would love to

speak the local language and hear with the gossip and being like my people are doing this like these

idiots they're filming themselves that was so cool something about that Temple reminded me of

Kung Fu Panda I think it's because of the Crazy Mountains in the background and then just this

intricate astonishing Temple that seems like it's just been plopped there out of nowhere like the

way that that was built breaks my mind to think about and to talk about and to talk about this is

crazy wow the echo this is this is our second cave and it's 250 M long so long that they've

had to put lights in so you can see where you're going doesn't seem as hectic as the last one like

dodging our heads gosh it's like 10 de cooler in here as well what a shot that was cool [Music]

[Music]

one thing I wasn't prepared for is that a lot of the stops the

islands there's a toilet break and also some little convenience stores

because it's getting hot we've treated ourselves to an ice cream Breakfast of

Champions so this is only one of two options when you come to Ninh Binh Vietnam the other

option is actually in Tam Coc where we're staying and we drove past it on the way here

it seems to be a lot more touristy and overrun is probably the right word for

it you still lots of really really good reviews but I've heard that

this one the Trang an boats are meant to be a lot more Serene and like this

[Music]

for the last 10 minutes or so it's just been us on the river no other

boats inside it's so Serene and peaceful tranquil this is a great way to startop

the day I think judging by how many people there are up here we might be coming to the

end if the numbers on the side of the boat are to be believed there's over 1,500 1,

yeah is that what you saw 1,554 crazy and we had bits of the river to just

us so lucky this is also supposed to be the less touristy one out of this

one and Tempco maybe it's a bigger area or something cuz that seems crazy oh wow good

without a doubt this has to be the best way to start your day in nimbin But be sure to come to

the trang an ones bright and early and not the Tam coock ones I know we haven't done that but

this was Sensational wear sunscreen bring a hat and maybe wear some bug spray as well because I

have been eaten alive go away bug wouldn't be a tourist attraction without a forced walkth

through of all the shops you can bus is at I have a whole case for cabry milk chocolate

crowds are picking up now oh I'm so glad we came when we did yeah all right let's get something to

eat we were on the hunt for breakfast but as soon as we came back to our hotel we realized

that we were still early enough to get the included breakfast and we're on a budget so

we got the included breakfast but now some time has passed and it is lunch time and we're off to

find something vietnames is so on our way to get lunch we actually passed the place where

the tancock boats leave from as far as I know the biggest drawer about it is that people steer with

their feet oh thank you oh this is so needed it's so hot today we also decided we'd ask the price

just to give you guys information it's 250,000 dong per person to go up and back the same way

but I believe if you pay for two you get a boat of just two they also have a package it's 350,000

per person that takes you up and back and then gets you on a boat out to two more shrines and

then back or something like that it's more of a combined deal and you go through rice Pat

look like this which look really cool but I I think our is better someone come here and try

this one and then we'll fight about it in the comments or something anyway we've come to the

restaurant that's right by where those boats leave to get something that the internet tells

me is very famous here I've decided to get a dish we haven't ever tried I don't think

in Vietnam called bun cha which I think is fatty pork over a bed of rice noodles let me

read you what Google says it's a Vietnamese of grilled pork and noodles which is thought

to have originated from Hanoi Vietnam buncha is served with grilled fatty pork over a plate of

white rice noodles and herbs with a side dish of dipping sauce it is on so many signs throughout

Vietnam I feel like I've seen it every second restaurant has a sign saying we sell banar so

it's been seeping in what's it called like not osmosis it's that Focus movie where they

show him the number all the time until he has to do it that's what's happened to me in bun

wow hello hello looks delicious thank [Music] you yum I don't know how to eat this I'm going

on Fork don't judge me but I actually Googled how to eat this cuz I knew it came in two parts like

the main dish with lettuce curvs pork and the noodles and then a separate soup looking thing

from what I understand I can just shove it in my face and it's fine there's no real rules

I think I'm G to put some noodles in the soup to get flavor okay and get some

[Music] pork

wow yeah the soup adds like this flavor Ki to it but the pork is

incredibly juicy and tender but has this charcoal on the outside

which is one of my favorite flavors is charcoal of flavor yeah you want to try

yeah oh yeah wow totally get the chal really it's like falling apart it's

that juicy had one bite so it might be a bit excessive but I feel like

that goes with my personality new favorite food in [Music]

Vietnam is that how you

how do you than you I like a new Vietnamese word I said that wrong for sure it's easier when you're

copying someone straight after what does it mean oh delicious I don't know why this is the thing

to eat when you come to Ninh Binh but most places say online that you have to get some sort of goat

meat I did read that the traditional thing is goat blood soup I'm just I'm not I'm not quite

there yet with my cultural eating so I just got the goat meat on a skewer with some french fries

tourist very gy which are I think a standard when it comes to goat meat but they've got

like little Sesame Seas on top and the flavor is got a little bit of spice a little bit of

Tang to it it's actually quite nice I think you'd like it great that's grabing that was

so impressive was it you just say yum yum it is Yum Yum okay it's like lemongrass or something

on top quite good but I definitely prefer

mine that was delicious I feel like Emily liked hers more than I like mine but I

still liked mine so that just goes to show pretty good place anyway we have

one more big adventure to do in Ninh Binh but that starts tomorrow tomorrow [Music]

everywhere we've been in Vietnam everyone has been up really early like way before

us even when we're trying to get up early so we assume we'd have no problem getting a ride just

before Sunset but there's been no taxis at all so we've walked into town keep tricking

grab and these other apps to get rides and finally we got one apparently he's on his way

[Music] thank you it's almost 6:00 a.m. and we've come into the ticket office it cost

100,000 Vietnamese Dong per person entry but just after the ticket office there's a hotel

that you could stay at I quickly looked at booking.com and the prices aren't crazy and

this would be such a fun place to stay plus you could wake up super early and

walk up here before anyone's probably even at the ticket office Google does claim that this

place opens at 8:00 a.m. I just happened to read a couple of blog posts that said

6 we were here before then and we got in so who knows [Music] [Applause] [Music]

ohly freak that was hot and sweaty it only took us 20 minutes but the steps are like some of them

are huge first of all they're all very uneven because it's rock and it I am so grateful we

came here first thing in the morning cuz I'm so sweaty imagine if this is the middle of the

day in the Heat and with all of the other people cuz we're up here alone so worth the early wake

[Music] up please excuse my intense sweat there's one side done we're now going to

the other side where the dragon is if you come here I feel like when there's

a fork in the steps you should go left the dragon and then like the

fields between the cliffs out from that side looks Schmick and come to this side

after the amount of business this place would get if it was open and when it does open is

unreal they actually have a zip line so they can get all their goods down and up without having

to carry it all the way very smart I literally feel like I'm in a SAA I'm sweating that much

feel like if Barham still had a circus I could be world's sweatiest man it's actually like dripping

off it's disgusting sorry about this but we got to keep it real I guess I think we've

made it to the top of the other side there's a section you can walk near the dragon step but

as we were coming up we passed some people and I said please tell me it's worth it and she just

went I do think these views are pretty spectacular [Music]

[Music]

[Applause] [Music]

we've been here for a bit over an hour now yeah hour and a half hour and a half yeah

I'm bad and we've only seen a handful of other people make sure you're setting your

alarms for 5:00 this place opens at 5:00 a.m. if you check on Google it will tell

you 8:00 a.m. that's that's a lie I don't know someone just hasn't updated it maybe

after Co yet but please don't update it let's keep it between us so that people

watching this video can also have it this alone cuz it's Majestic it is I will say the boats

were better views and less sweat but also more expensive much more expensive little column a

little column B can't believe we missed n bin last time I know I'm so grateful we came back

we are still missing things here like some of the pagodas and awesome sites but we literally

have to go back to Hanoi this afternoon so end the video okay let's go get a cold drink please please

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