VIETNAM has a TEMPLE built into a MOUNTAIN!
[Music] this is a pineapple carrot smoothie it’s more like a juice though um for 30k which is just over a dollar and then you got a banana smoothie it’s pretty thin how’s it taste like banana and that was just under a dollar at 20K and at this restaurant they
Also gave two free bananas and it says on the wall that you get a free water this is what Charley got fried noodle with tofu and vegetables 40K so just under $2 and I ordered the noodle soup with tofu and vegetables which is a f and uh it’s about
$150 at 35k D let’s see what it looks like okay so here’s my vegetable f it does look in fact filled with vegetables which is what I was craving is there noodles in yours oh yeah does come with lots of balloon inside rice noodle and there’s some
Actual chilies and lime no basket of Veggie Stu by that’s okay it’s in there but look at Charlie’s ooh that smells so good and she did bring over two bottles of Water [Music] very hot no [Music] good more flattering [Music] that’s very good nice lightly sweet broth lots of flavors we picked these up at a roadside Fruit Stand they’re manderin oranges and they’re still on the vine they’re really beautiful and they were 40,000 dong a kilo which works
Out to $165 USD we’ll use those to Snack Off on while we’re here and editing or Daydreaming so this is a gas station in Vietnam you pull your bike up and somebody will come and uh pour some gas into your tank from those bottles Interesting Vietnam has a deep history compounded with many layers it is here in the heart of Nuna Mountain that a certain place in time seemed to be well preserved and Frozen in medieval history oh [Music] wow this is beautiful the first Stones were laid here for construction in the year
1428 to build what is now known as B dong Pagod this was during the reign of Emperor Lee Tao Lee Tao LED Vietnam to independence from China during these times in the Middle Ages don’t know what this is but I know that first word is no several hundred years later around the year 1705 two devout Buddhist monks
From a nearby Province encountered each other and swore to each other Brotherhood in a mission to spread awareness of Buddhism these two impassioned monks chose to commence their life’s work right here in New Mar Mountain [Music] and so began a series of reparations and
Additions to three tiers of pagodas in and around the Serene spiritual [Music] Mountain [Music] [Music] for [Music] [Music] oh Oh [Music] it’s Temple is inside the Cave [Music] Oh [Music] in Nuno mountain in a cave still hangs the bronze Bell that was hung by these very two monks in [Music] 1707 bells in Buddhism signify the voice of the Buddha which is Awakening and can lead one down the very path to Enlightenment [Music] there’s an up close of the flow Stone inside the 0:10:59.040,1193:02:47.295 [Music] cave [Music] beautiful [Music] there is much we have to learn about Buddhism and we can tell you this place had a strange sense of peace to it exploring this mountainous Temple was both Serene and much like that of a sounding
Bell its hum led us to all its hidden [Music] secrets the ones that were fading in [Music] time like that distant echo of a chiming Bell carrying with it the ancient chantings of monks and Brotherhood [Music] just trying to make their voices [Music] heard along with their
[Music] teachings for as long as time will [Music] get we didn’t see this one on the way up [Music] was hidden around the corner so they have uh because you you can’t wear shorts or sleeveless shirts they have these uh garments that you can put over your shorts like these
People are wearing [Music] here banana [Music] trees yeah I believe that’s a [Music] gravestone oh there’s more of the uh apple snail eggs right here oh apple snails are an invasive species that live in the water and they come out of
The water to lay eggs like that and they are that color because they are poisonous too animals it’s a beautiful [Music] area so we tried to film a lot without people and as you can see there is a lot of
People here wow wow that is cool is that just a plant growing on my tree or it might be a Vine yeah that is so cool looking that is awesome while we were here we noticed there was people walking
Up this this other Trail and the other Trail is actually not in so there’s the parking lot over there there’s the bridge where everybody walks to go into the the Buddhist temples but if you walk this is really hard cuz it’s backwards on my phone if you walk under this little bike holder
Area and along here and then down this way you can get alongside of the Buddhist temple assumingly for free and uh there’s it looks like there’s a trail to a lookout up here alongside let’s
Get it and then I don’t know if it LO around but it looks like there’s another Trail this way and some cool little Limestone caves along the way but we’re going to huff and puff up these stairs over
Here and uh see you guys at the top like I said huff and puff just came up a bunch of stairs next to the pagota area and uh this sign says the entrance to the cave of Heaven now I have no
Clue what’s up this way but we’ll find out these stairs are very uneven and some of them are knee height we got this guys we got [Music] this who looks like we’re going back [Music] down this is [Music] beautiful yeah okay going down so so we’ve entered this Valley covered in goat Poop oh this is a couple kids right [Music] there hey [Music] kids what are you guys doing see CIA open all their little [Music] [Music] foot [Music] [Music] s [Music] beautiful yelling is very beautiful it says uh yelling is very [Music]
Beautiful okay so the guy behind us there he said something like money pay to go in the cave um but we’re just walking we asked a couple other tourists to walk by how muggy it is I’m all fogged up uh if uh they paid and they said no
But just walking through this little Valley here is beautiful check this out Oh I see so there’s a cave over here that you pay to go [Music] in look at these massive [Music] rocks okay so they do offer a boat ride uh not sure how much the boat ride is but there is a a cave over there and she said 50 each or 50 for the both of us so a dollar each to enter
The cave which is not a bad deal we would want to share it with you guys if we were going to do it and there’s no light in the cave so we couldn’t share it with you guys so since you
Guys have to miss out we’re going to miss out as well um got our exercise in with a little hike over the mountain here um but uh just the valley in here that these people live in is amazing it’s like completely surrounded by uh by mountains and uh that’s their that’s
Their home and um it’s just gorgeous so if you guys make it to Vietnam and you guys come here send us a link to your video of this little cave to [Music] Heaven um because we’re
[Music] curious okay that’s the uh way we just came from from the the cave to Heaven um that we didn’t go into there’s another road going this way next to this large field probably bug Central and come comeo Ro comeo Zak Z I don’t know it’s garbage oh this might be somebody’s
Home we’ll find out let’s let’s investigate this might be bathrooms this might be very old bathrooms all right what do you guys see nothing yet this looks like it would be bathrooms oh wow talk about a bathroom with a [Music] view
It is and it’s really easy to look past the G garbage piles and see the beauty here looks like there’s something in the oh it’s just more rocked um so if these were Old Eastern bathrooms they would have like a little floor toilet in them unless they’re super old and uh watching for
Snakes plus they’re super old and they just went on the floor I don’t know but now you know what’s this way and now we know what this way whoa that road just broke on me and we’re probably above water here considering there’s water on that side and Marsh on this
Side and there’s little fish or tadpoles in here and these purple plants are just beautiful I don’t know what they are but they’re just growing everywhere out of the cliffs I should look them up so my app the little the seek app that I use for identifying plants and animals and bugs
And stuff identifies these as Moses in the cradle and apparently they bloom with white flowers but they’re everywhere along the uh the hills here and they’re just beautiful little little blotches of purple all throughout here just adding color to this already colorful Place Vietnam is
Beautiful okay so here’s the ticketing office and it’s not really clear cuz it shows a boat in a cave and that I don’t know what the last word was but uh the first two is crosswater so I don’t know if it’s crosswater money money to cross the water or what but we’ve been
Standing here for a little bit and there is people paying but they’re paying for parking I don’t know what that was about but uh most of the people are just paying for parking so not seeing people paying to actually go in and we walked here all the way from Tam
So so uh yeah that was our that was our payment walking and now we got to walk back actually we don’t have to walk back we could probably pay one of these things to take us back to tamco
But we don’t want to let’s find out how much they are so it’s either two or $4 for us to get a ride back on there uh they they asked if we had a ticket and we said no and then I said
How much and he’s they said 50 uh I’m not sure if that’s per person which $50 is $2 um we’ve already walked five miles today yeah we’ve already done five miles what’s another five yeah 11,000 still yeah we’re definitely getting it in today and it was supposed to be
A rainy day today so we’re at we just stopped at the um basically the furthest food stand from the uh the the temple and or the pagodas and uh I just wanted to show you what the food
Prices are right next to a very touristy Place uh so you got coffee for 30k 30k is like a$1 25ish we ordered the uh mango smoothie for 30k so it’ll be 60k for our smoothies which [Music] is $225 is I’ll put the price there then these are the other things
Beer is less than a dollar for uh domestic and for an import of hinin it’s like just over a dollar uh you can order just fruit for less than a dollar and you got uh some b m here we like the Bon Me with the egg just over a
Dollar and then you got some fried noodles cooked noodles stir fried noodles with beef uh 70 is just under $3 you got French fries here for two bucks and then you got your fuzz uh far is just a vegetable um soup just over a dollar spring rolls two Bucks got your fried Rices for just just over $2 and $2 and just regular rice is under a dollar fried tofu tofu stuffed with meat that sounds interesting yeah for $2 you usually don’t see tofu stuff with me yeah uh and your vegetarian food okay thank you
M thank you thank you no and then these are our smoothies our mango smoothies that we got pretty good um so they give you the ice which cools the drink down the drink is actually not cold yet but it will be and smoothies here aren’t exactly like super thick but they’re
Still pretty good I mean for just over a dollar for a smoothie that she literally just grabbed the fruit off that table over there yeah it’s real fresh mango yeah um back to the menu vegetarian
Food $2 and under per meal um more sandwiches this I’m not sure how uh Pate is a vegetarian food but okay spring roll bread that’s interesting but again these are under a dollar for a sandwich and then you [Music] got ice cream for under a dollar coffee
For oh it looks like they’ve changed it to 30k from 20 no no uh one thing I want to talk about the ice so we might want to drink this fast um you want to what you want to look for for ice if you’re just visiting and you aren’t used
To the water is you want to get the ice with the holes in the center is a Telltale sign that it’s filtered water this looks like homemade ice so not sure but you know drink it fast before it all melts yeah and then you got some juices for
30k uh you can buy bottle small bottle of water or a large bottle water for 50 uh you got some other beers here for a dollar this one’s just over a dollar cuz she changed it to 30 I think that’s
Technically 30 um soft drinks for 50 cents soft drink for 50 cents at a restaurant yeah crazy and it’s name brand that I’ve seen it’s all been like Coca-Cola panta yeah and it’s it is it’s
Coca-Cola uh Diet Coke or actually they call it Coca-Cola light here um you got all sorts of teas and other things oh these are the cigarette packs here and uh cigarettes here are only like a dollar
Something a pack it’s crazy um but yeah this is uh the restaurant they also sell souvenirs here and chips and uh they even have fresh coconuts well that was fun that was so much fun thank you guys
For watching don’t forget to like And subscribe and we will see you next time bye now bye now mat s that that yeah
Just a few kilometers out of Tam Cốc, Vietnam is a mountain covered with temples a d even a cave system. it is called Bich Dong Pagoda and it’s history dates back to medieval times. Join us as we explore this amazing buddhist temple with all its surrounding natural beauty. This was a completely free tour as well.
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Yeah. First ✌️
"khánh" is a musical stone. @5:31, I guess "Do not chime this musical stone"
Love that music that you guys added…
I'm good with 2nd one here. I'm always really looking forward to the new vids. It's odd to see the menu in bold English. Looks yumalicious! The first Pagoda of the day is beautiful & I enjoy hearing the history, if you ever write a book about your travels here they will let others hear of times past in this often misunderstood country. I would live as close to one of these or an old monastery just for the peace. That was very sweet of you to not go where we couldn't go with you! It was a fantastic place. Do you see many of those huge Cranes like at the end. The goats are always adorable but it's cool to see other creatures that live there. Stay safe. Hugs!
The pagodas were absolutely amazing. It’s hard to imagine the amount of time and effort it must have taken to construct them, particularly 600 years ago. Although they look nothing alike, the complex reminded me of the great cathedral after Europe, with their various side chapels and artworks. Thanks for bringing us along.
I see a lot of gold paint on building and statues, sure is shiny and pretty 🙂 The mountains are beautiful with their unique rounded tops. Menu food blows my mind away. Great prices and all of it looks amazing and healthy ! Thanks for taking us along to such a magical place
Great video, thank you
That temple was beautiful! Or pagodas! Built so long ago and still standing! That's crazy! And the limestone caves are just magical! So amazing and nature is absolutely the very best artist! Wow! And you guys and the distance you hike is nuts! In that humidity too! You are such amazing physically fit people! I would have dropped dead in that humidity! No questions about it! I can barely breathe if the air is humid, not even hot! But you add both and someone is calling me an ambulance for sure! Heat I'm fine with as long as it's a dry heat, like in the desert. I'm fine with high temps and no humidity! But thankfully there are people like you two who can experience this for me, and film it too! You guys are awesome! Thank you! ❤
Try walking, your health will definitely improve a lot
Beautiful !! Very tranquil, love the music inserted ❤❤ ..btw, the words " cam do rac.. " means don't trash here..!"
5:00 the temple was built during the reign of Le Thai To (pronounced Leh-Thai-Toh), not Ly Thai To (Lee-Thai-Toh) which is 400 years earlier. In Vietnam, Thai To is used for the first emperor of a dynasty, followed by Thai Tong(the second), Thanh Tong (the third), Nhan Tong (the forth), etc… Le Thai To was the emperor who freed Vietnam from the Ming dynasty, while Ly Thai To moved the capital city from Hoa Lu (the place you're visiting) to Thang Long (now Hanoi) in 1010, and his some of his descendent fled the country and became the Hwasan Lee clan in Korea
5:22 it is actually a stone Khanh (aka bianqing, an ancient percussion instrument, usually made from metal). the plank just said "don't strike the khanh"
12:30 the Trung and Thuong in the name of the temple is actually indicate the position of that part of the Bich Dong pagoda. there should be 3 parts: Ha (chinese: xia, means under), Trung (chinese: zhong, means middle) and Thuong (chinese: shang, means upper). people visiting a pagoda have to go from Ha, to Trung, then Thuong.
13:00 this is the place where people pay respect to the god of that land
23:50 Ninh Binh is famous for the reed, because Dinh Tien Hoang (the first Vietnamese emperor) used to play mock battle there using reed as his flag when he was a kid
26:37 its a ticket booth for the boat trip to Xuyen Thuy cave (Xuyen Thuy Dong is the chinese way to say it, Vietnamese usually use chinese way to make some word/places more intriguing
32:52 the ice with hole in the middle is actually factory made. they let the cold air running through a metal tube and let the water running on the outside of the tube until it froze
It’s very nice video, I love your back round music .
Seems like every temple here is on top of a mountain, in a deep valley or canyon or in some kind of cave……all very odd places for sure….nice hike and very pretty there😃
Great video you guys. The pagoda and temple are in such a wonderful part of VN and their accompanying history is equally wonderful. Also, very good of you to respect the local custom and take off your shoes before entering the temple/house.
Been following for a while now and y'all are sure looking good! Losing lots of weight, looks great on you guys!
Donated. Ppl maintained the environment for you. 😊
The text said, plz do not liter. 😊
Beautiful environment.😮
Thanks 4 sharing.😅
5:25 That, cái khánh, is an instrument to make sound similar to a bell. It is made of stone or, later, metal.
Thank you for the video! Wish you all the best!
That temple was a lot of work , crazy they did that back then , that hike to heaven looked a lil rough , how those little legs got up those steps 🤣that was a nice walk around , Yall made a big deal about soft drinks for .50 , what about Beer for a dollar whattttt
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Excellent video! The pinned comment was a very respectful and thoughtful comment. I found it to be very helpful for the video. You two do walk quite a bit in all your videos (silly comment someone else left). I imagine even more so now that Opal and Goat are resting up. We would never know if you decided to visit the cave. I say go do it!! I know I would 😄 Those purple plants i have in my home. A very resilient plant. We call them Wandering Jew plants. Its crazy how much cheaper the soda is. At one of my previous jobs, I was in charge of ordering soda, and there was no way I could bring in soda to sell at that price. It must be based on the market. Just shows a lot of these businesses stick it to us because they can and they know(or think) we can afford it. Silly question, but dont they have trash cans and dumpsters set up for people to use? Or do they choose not to use them? I mean I can see around the city. But, their parks surely must have some? Thanks for sharing! Fart on!
Loved it. It’s funny when you speed it up and you talk fast. 😂
I think that quote about the flower at the end was referencing a Bhudda sermon. This was nice guys! I'm like that meme of Jack Nickolson at the end of The Shining movie. Dealing with some frozen pipes. Jeff's saw is frozen… with antifreeze! I thought I lived in the south! GO AWAY north pole!!! Yeah you guys picked the BEST time of year to leave the USA lol.
Welcome to Vietnam!
Beautiful video and nice narrating! Keep it up!
Just pay for it since is cheap & enjoy it guys !
Wow guys… very cool places… 😮😮😮 thank you for sharing!🥰 amazing video
I wish we had the same prices on our food as they do.
Shari and I just got done watching , I think its slowly getting her to want to visit . That Temple is really cool , I love stuff like that , but you know me anything history or religion I am into. And weird way to follow up that sentence where those old bathrooms ? or what were they did you ever find out 100% .
Great video guys loving the travels
So much beautiful scenery. I’m glad you two explore the paths that aren’t obvious.
Such a beautiful place ❤❤❤
Wow, it must feel incredibly surreal and amazing to be in such an ancient place! Just incredible. The cave formations were so cool!
Your “cinematography” is fantastic! I love all the views when you film!
Wow what a beautiful and serene setting. i am sure tons of tourists go there. Glad you found a walk around, at least you had that to yourself and got a good workout. I don't like to go into caves that are dark, that is were the snakes like to live and breed, no thank you. I love the colors of that pink flower. it looked neon. and that vine on the tree make it look shaggy. You guys are doing a fantastic job. thanks for taking us with you.
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