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Sapa Slideshow
Top Hotels in Sapa
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Chau Long Sapa Hotel
157 reviews -
Victoria Sapa Hotel
198 reviews
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Sapa Golden Sea
10 reviews -
Bamboo Sapa Hotel
120 reviews
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Topas Ecolodge Sapa
171 reviews
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Sapa Hotel
6 reviews
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Bien May Hotel Sapa
1 review -
Auberge Dang Trung Hotel Sapa
47 reviews
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Bamboo Green Sapa
5 reviews
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Queen Hotel Sapa
15 reviews
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Darling Hotel Sapa
5 reviews
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Hoang Lien Hotel Sapa
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Hotel Saomai Sapa
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Lotus Hotel Sapa
23 reviews
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Mountain View Hotel Sapa
47 reviews -
Royal Hotel Sapa
48 reviews
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Royal View Hotel Sapa
70 reviews
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Sapa Summit Hotel
128 reviews
Sapa
Travel Blogs from Sapa, Vietnam
Sapa Town
This is a top pick! ... brothers and sisters do you have? Is that your husband? How old is he? How many brothers and sisters does he have? You like Vietnam?", etc, etc. Like Halong Bay, we saw no wildlife or even any birds. In talking with our guide he said that most of ...
Our last stop in Vietnam
This is a top pick! We're at the end of our 5 or so week journey up through Vietnam, in the small mountainous town of Sapa. The views of the lush green mountains are so amazing, it really is beautiful countryside. There are people from different hilltribes who inhabit the ...
Sarah, motorcycle babe...on a Vespa
This is a top pick! ... is too bad. It would have put Ansel Adams to shame. As would a picture of Phil and the H'Mong musician in the legendary Sapa Fife Off 2003, but I was too caught up in the moment. Please see Phil's travelogue for further details; I'm still too ...
So Long Black Hmong
This is a top pick! ... a lot by the local tribeswomen trying to sell people things but at the end of the day they are some of the poorest people in Vietnam so we did what we shouldn't have done and rewarded some of them purely for persistence. Erica bought a bag off one of her ...
Emmas in the sky with........ clouds and rain.....
This is a top pick! ... up but worry not, the photos for this entry are pretty much exactly the same. We thought "Oh yeah its summer now in North Vietnam of course it'll be sunny! AND the book says that between March and May are the best months to visit Sapa, weather wise." ...
My Newspaper Feature on Sapa
This is a top pick! ... go to http://www.mysanantonio.com/life/MYSA011308_01Q_Sapa_5ba6fd_html.html The Price of Travel by Dane Phillips SAPA, VIETNAM - I am accustomed to transportation in the developing world. I have been on buses in which poultry outnumbered ...
City in the Clouds
This is a top pick! ... to drive in it or accomplish anything. I just walked around looking at trees near the pub I lived in. But what we saw in Sapa was different. It wasn't fog, it was a cloud. I don't know that they're fundamentally different or share a different chemical ...
Same Same...But Different
This is a top pick! ... beginning place for Ho Chi Minh's revolution. I didn't have that time as my visa was expiring: one month in Vietnam sure went quickly. Instead, I experienced only the superficial, with a quick glimpse into Black Hmong living. The town of Sapa ...
Enter Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... arrived at the border town, had a very easy crossing into Vietnam, and hopped on a minibus crammed with people to head to Sapa, Vietnam. The views were great heading up the mountains, mist floating down,etc. Unfortunately, we ran over a dog on our way ...
Sapa - Paddy Field Frenzy and Glastonbury Envy
This is a top pick! ... up and wandered back. The hike was incredible and within minutes of arriving this is an easy winner of our favourite place in Vietnam (by a long stretch). There is little point in going into further detail about the hike as we have so many pictures of ...
Mixing up with the tourists
This is a top pick! Mmm, Sapa, mmm, I wrote a storry on a girl from Sapa, but you'd have to wait for 3 weeks to read it. I'm too unmotivated to write anything else right now. Check out the ...
Vietnam trip
This is a top pick! ... peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free." Ho Chi Minh in 1945 I took a group of 16 girls and 4 teachers to Vietnam to do a Duke of Edinburgh walk. We arrived in Hanoi, got the train to Sapa, walked, came back to Hanoi, got the bus ...
A Walk in the Clouds
This is a top pick! OK... so upon arriving in Hanoi, we went straight to find a few our companies that might take us to visit Sapa, a famous town in northern Vietnam where you can go for hikes and visit hill tribes... And that's just what we did... Ready to ...
Mountains and Clouds
This is a top pick! There are tons of these photos, but it was just too cool. I've never seen anything like ...
Back to Sapa with aching limbs
This is a top pick! ... . Further along we cam across some Marajuana plants! It was growing randomly all around. Wierd scenario. We got ourselves back to Sapa after witnessing some more breathtaking views. Both this and Halong Bay have views to die for and it's hard to ...
Up into the mountains for a trek
This is a top pick! ... the right spot (although nothing still beats Molly Malones in Siem Reap). Lorna and I then took a walk round the small town of Sapa and visited the markets and took in the views. One of the best views we got was from the veranda behind the Royal View ...
Recon in North Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... largely recovering from his illness whilst building himself a new life in Vietnam. After a quick trip to Halong Bay I headed up to Sapa, in North Vietnam where I hoped to find a project or two and a place for the volunteers to stay. Out of the bus I ...
Chilling in Sapa
This is a top pick! ... most of way in our four berth compartment (sharing with 2 others) trains very clean but full of tourists (loads of French in Vietnam unsurprisingly) Arrive an hour late at 07.50 at Lao Cai on the Vietnamese/China border and get minibus 50k to Sapa. ...
Hidden Home
This is a top pick! Photos of the hidden home in Sapa. This view was spectacular, and it was incredible to see how some people live. It was obviously a very basic domicile, but it had ...
Trekking - A Word with Two K's Must be Foreign
This is a top pick! ... are physically fit. I don't ask what our route will be. I know I'm not going to like it. We're in the town of Sapa, Vietnam, in the Tonkinese Alps. (The dot on the map north-west of Hanoi, near the Chinese border.) The only reason people come to Sapa ...
Stunning Sapa
This is a top pick! ... So after our Halong Bay cruise we made our way back to Hanoi before getting an overnight train to Sapa, a small mountain top village in the north of Vietnam, just 3 miles from the Chinese border. The area has many ethnic villages that are still ...
Trekking around Sapa
This is a top pick! ... Black H'mong tribe. She took us on our trek to Lao Chau and Ta Phinh which covered about 11km. We started in the clouds in Sapa but within about 20 mins it began to clear and we actually saw sunshine for the first time in a couple of weeks! Before we ...
Hilltribe areas of Sapa
This is a top pick! ... so glad that I did because we walked through some spectacular scenery, just a stone throw away from the culture of Northern Vietnam. We walked through many local villages and had the opportunity to meet the unbelievably friendly people of the region. ...
Sapa me up, big time
This is a top pick! ... well, and maybe even still reading this nonsense I'm writing. :-) Sapa, for those who don't know, is a mountain town in North Vietnam, by the Chinese border, and famous not only for its beauty but also as a place to encounter some of the ethnic hill ...
Sunrise in Sapa
This is a top pick! ... that I wasn't that funny, that she wasn't that cute, and that my friends should not start a band. That morning in the terraces continues to impress me, and I'm sure it will for years to come. Dane Phillips Sapa, Vietnam Travel Writing and ...