20 October 2025 Steps: 3,561 (but we rowed a lot!) This morning we got up nice and early to go on the Trang An boat tour . This is the activity that Ninh Binh is best known for, and is one of the main reasons we decided to visit this area of Vietnam , so we were excited to finally get to experience it. There are quite a few different tours that you can do in the Ninh Binh area. In Tam Coc, there is a more budget friendly tour, which is generally considered not as scenic as th

19 October 2025 Steps: 8,371 We started the day with breakfast at our homestay , which included in the price. The girls and Susie had the banana pancakes and I tried Banh Cuon , which is a traditional Vietnamese breakfast of rolled rice pancakes with pork. It was really good! A traditional breakfast of rolled rice pancake with pork Bich Dong Pagoda Bich Dong pagoda was about a 15 minute Grab taxi ride to get there, and I had seen the part where you cross the lake, to the te

18 October 2025 Steps: 3,592 Today was meant to be a nice leisurely morning before heading to the train station in Hanoi to catch our train down to Ninh Binh. Well that went out of the window when I realized that I had lost my Wealthsimple card at the mall the day before ! Absolute disaster! Instead, I was rushing around trying to call the mall to find it, cancelling credit cards and trying to figure out how we are going to get a new card sent over to us by the bank. Let’s j