After getting off the the cruise boat in Halong we waited at the pier for about an hour for a bus that would take us to Trang An. Trang An is a river that has a little village on the outskirts of Ninh Binh. We got to our beautiful homestay at around 5pm and we relaxed for a little bit in our room. Then we went to our homestay’s restaurant to order something to eat. Green Mountain Homestay had a pool table, a dart 🎯 board and a wall where you could make creations out of recycled materials like bottle caps or coke cans. I played darts while we were waiting for our food, I ordered Bun Cha, a Vietnamese specialty. Bun Cha is rice noodles 🍝 with pork patties and herbs 🌿. The Bun Cha at Green Mountain was good but the noodles were cold. After dinner 🍽 I played more darts and some pool 🎱. I had a great nights sleep 🛏 and woke up fresh and energized. We went to order breakfast and I got eggs 🍳. Denise got Pho Ga 🍲 (Chicken Pho). We did schoolwork for the morning, I am working on a research project about Japan 🇯🇵. After lunch me and my daddy rented a motorcycle 🏍 and my mom and sister rented a bike ( Mom is not a confident motorcycle driver). My dad and I set off to see the biggest pagoda in Trang An , Bai Dinh. But the pagoda was 11 km away so Mommy and Denise set off for the ancient capital of Trang An, Hoa Lu. The first time we tried to get to Bai Dinh we got lost so we went back to the homestay to get further directions the 2nd time was more successful but we did not go on the pagoda because you had to park your motorcycle and take a shuttle and you had to pay so we just looked at the pagoda from the outside. We came back just before the girls and my dad got a beer 🍺. When they came back they said they also got lost and had not found the ancient capital but they ended up at a beautiful lake where people were getting their wedding pictures done. We relaxed for a while until dinner time . Then we went to bed 🛌. We woke up and had breakfast, this time I ordered pancakes 🥞 and so did Denise . We decided to take a boat tour on Trang An River. We got on a boat with a a Dutch guy named Morris and set off on the river. On the river we went through a lot of caves and stopped at some pagodas. The caves can be seen in picture 3 and video 1. The Trang An River was where they filmed the second King Kong Movie 🎥 🍿🦍. The boat was very fun. We biked 🚲 back to Green Mountain and had lunch 🍴. We did more schoolwork and made creations on the recycle wall. We went to bed early and had a deep sleep 💤. The next morning we woke up and had breakfast 🥞🍳. After schoolwork Denise started to feel sick 🤒. Our plan was to go on an overnight bus 🚌 the next night to Sapa to do a trek but we could not do a 10 km trek while Denise was sick. I was sad that Denise was sick and that we were not going to Sapa. Unfortunately Denise stayed sick and we had to take a bus to Hanoi where there would be an English speaking doctor 👨‍⚕️. I m writing from our Air B&B in Hanoi. I really like it here. Bye!There is always so many boat drivers waiting in line to get customers, it is the main attraction of the area.