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Sapa Slideshow
Sapa
Travel Blogs from Sapa, Vietnam
LJ versus the buffalo
This is a top pick! ... as much as we stared at them. Because of it's fairly remote location it doesn't see half the westerners that other parts of Vietnam do. Plus, Sapa has been seriously hit by the drop in tourism due to SARS as we found out to our benefit pulling in to ...
Soggy Sapa
This is a top pick! ... Hoan Lien Mountains, it is perched on a steep slope that overlooks a plunging valley of cascading rice terraces. The highest mountain in Vietnam, Fanispan (3,143 metres), is about 40 km away, or a 5 day return trek. Whilst its position is superb, not ...
Ouch my wallet!
This is a top pick! 16th May - On waking LJ decided she couldn't walk after her exploits of the previous day and so we decided on a lazy day. Why is it that a lazy day for women has to involve shopping? We wandered into town where we were soon surrounded by Hmong women ...
Sapa
This is a top pick! ... you imagine seeing that in the UK! We had hard seats all the way which is the lowest class for those who know train travel in Vietnam! The guards must have quoted us 7 different prices to get a sleeper but we were wide awake at this point so decided to ...
First stop was to halong bay where i ...
This is a top pick! ... sitting in the lower part of the valley, and clear skys around the surrounding hills. Again the afternoon was spent wandering around Sapa taking photos. I think my 'room mate' has been helping himself to my soap, and also drying himself down with MY ...
Train & Sa Pa
We now officially know what it is like to be a sheep. At 8pm last night, we were herded quickly (not easy to do with kids) onto a minibus (Kythera got both kids and I got to stand) and taken to Hanoi Railway Station. Well, no, that's not correct, we were ...
Preparing the mind and spirit in the mountains
... tough business. But there is no place better than the Sa Pa mountains to do just that. I have many Hmong (ethnic minorities of northern Vietnam and Laos) friends to help me ease my mind ,body , and spirit before I drive into the unknown. 7 days of hiking, ...
Exciting Motor Bike Trip to Sa Pa
... , also bis dann! Dear friends, Finally, we are off for our motorbike trip on a Minsk to Sa Pa/Lao Cao in the northern Vietnam. We won't have any internet connection before Dec. 29, tso ake care and have fun! Cheers, Jaipur on tour - Hana & ...
Queen of the mountains- Sapa
We have had a couple of days in the very north of Vietnam in the mountains area . We arrived off the overnight train in Lao cai which is just 2 km from the chinese border ( 650 m above) and then drove over the rimatukas another 1 hour to Sapa ( 1650 ...
Sapa
... . Ik ga Liane proberen in een ravijn te laten donderen, dan heb ik lekker het huis vrij.... Nee, in de omgeving van Sapa wonen heel veel etnische minderheden. Die mensen wonen nog zoals wij in de middeleeuwen en dragen nog steeds klededracht. Verder is ...
Mountain Trekking, Villagers and Gate Crashing
... have to buy a lot of their goods for saving us! The scenery in the mountains is breath-taking. The Chinese came to northern Vietnam about 300 years ago, chopped down a lot of the rainforest and turned it into paddy fields. Although it's sad that the ...
The heels of the Hmong Women
... said some buses couldnt get through from Lai Cau so we didnt feel it is a good idea to bike it. We wandered Sapa town battling the Hmong girls as we set off..... Dave is completely happy with his cracked heels now as the Hmong girls have ...
In the land of the H'mong people
... every minute. That day was definitely the high-point of this trip for me :) Other than that, I just spent time in Sapa, chilling out and checking out the local bars and restaurants with my new friends Rob & Mick, two aging Australian ...
Sapa adventures Pt2
... their doors wide open revealling cold huddled occupants glued to televisions or card games. Whilst it is mainly Vietnamese who live in Sapa (and the odd ancient hippie - across from our hotel was a bar that played 24hr Pink Floyd with its white ...
The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Muzak
The flight to Hanoi in Northern Vietnam from Luang Prabang in Laos took only forty five minutes. We had booked a hotel in advance for once and had asked them to arrange for us to be collected from the airport. From leaving ...
Sa Pa Hills - Monkey Man and Benign Girl
... we walked up through the hills some more to a little snack stop and waited for a bus to pick us up and take us back to Sapa. Once there we checked into the hotel (Summit Hotel) and went down to the Sapa market. Once again the kids were the centre of ...
Montagnes...
Nous voici donc à Sapa, ville montagneuse et brumeuse...Au début, sensations particulières car la température est plus fraiche et le brouillard permanent nous trouble quelque peu après la chaleur humide de Hanoi. Ici, le feu de bois est fréquent, ce ...
Sapa, Mountains, Mist and a Deluge of Rain
... , but still comfortable. Bus ride up the mountain to Sapa. From Sapa you are supposed to have a great view of Mt Fansipan, Vietnam's tallest mountain, but haven't seen it yet. Been pouring down rain since I got here, and when not raining the whole ...
Sapa
Sapa is a small town in the mountains of northern Vietnam. It is surrounded by lush green mountains, many of which are terraced for rice crops, and are inhabited by Hmong people, originally from southern China. Words really do no justice for ...
Sapa, 11 - 13 May 2009
... , there was even someone at Lao Cai with our name displayed waiting for us, and so we had a transfer straight to the hotel. Sapa was instigated as a hill station by the French in the 1930's, and resembles an alpine resort in some ways. Its quite fresh ...
Le mist
... why I came here: Sapa, so they say, has some amazing trekking opportunities to remote Hill tribe villages and to Fansipan, Vietnam's highest mountain. I arrived early in the morning (as in 6am), and was rather optimistic: Yes, there was some fog, but at ...
Sapa Town
On March 6, we took an overnight train to Sapa from Hanoi. Sapa is in the far NW corner of Vietnam and is a 10 hour train ride. We arrived in Lao Cai (the nearest train station to Sapa) at 6:00 in the morning, very tired and groggy. We were ...
Northern Vietnam
... and an unforgettable adventure! Vietnam: We arrived at the bus station just on the boarder of China and Vietnam and needed to cross and get another bus to Sapa (a 1 hour drive). It was quite early in the morning (I think around 7:30am) and we ...
Sapa, Vietnam
... limbs. You don't have to talk to many people here to understand the true danger of these small bikes. That said, after entering Vietnam via China, I worked down the coast to Saigon and have had a wonderful time. I am especially adabtable to the beach once ...
So Much Stuff Happeining
... out the widow and saw my second dead body for the day. They carried her away and we continued on our journey. Shit hey. At Sapa The little bastards here are very push to sell much a crap item that I now have. I rented a bike and went crusing. I ...
Dag 3,4 - Trekken in Sapa
... het zelfs niet erg dat onze jeep plots in een gammel busje was veranderd, wij wouden naar huis (of toch naar ergens anders in Vietnam). En nu zitten we wat tijd te doden voordat de slaaptrein ons weer naar Hanoi brengt (ja, daarom is dit stukje zo ...
You Buy Flom Me............!
... and go for a ride. We first headed up the mountain to the Tram Ton Pass, which is the highest mountain pass in Vietnam. Again the views were spectacular along the way, we also stopped at the Silver Waterfall. From there we headed back down through Sapa ...
Land of the clouds
... mixed in. What a weather change from Luang Prabang!! In case you haven't already worked it out, we are in Sapa in far northwest Vietnam. It is a fairly remote town for which luck has struck and tourism has boomed, mainly for the (apparently) breathtaking ...