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Sapa Slideshow
Sapa
Travel Blogs from Sapa, Vietnam
Trekking in the fine weather......
... & dress, big silver earrings that give them huge earlobes & black hats. There are many different hilltribe people around Sapa & they all speak their own dialect. We set off to trek 15 km today following lots of other small groups with ...
Mist, mountains and a step back in time
After the blare of the Hanoi horns, we headed north (8 hours by train) to the peaceful lands of what's left of Vietnam's hill tribes, or Montagnards. As ever the fear here is that in brochure speak you get to visit "real local people, in real tribal ...
Trekking, Dorm Rooms & Happy Water
... printed out and laminated for the wall. There is no way to trek back after this so we got 2 motorcycle taxis and went back to Sapa. It was great to spend time with the family. They were so open and enthusiastic to see us and I am happy to chalk this up ...
We've been cold too you know (no snow though!)
... three of us hired mopeds and headed up the mountain towards some waterfalls and the famous Tram Ton Pass, the highest road in Vietnam, which separates Sapa from Lai Chau. Sapa is the coldest place in Vietnam (and trust me it really was cold, we spent ...
Mucky puppies
... more than 5 feet ahead, but he was undeterred on knife-edge cliff roads. Scary doesn't cover it! We were then unceremoniously dumped in Sapa, and without a tour bus to pick us up, we sent JK into the fog to find our hotel, whilst Marcia and I danced to ...
Stunning Sapa
... school so they help on the rice paddies or become tour guides but speak very good english. We have another day of trekking tomorrow to Cat Cat village and then back on the overnight train to Hanoi where we will make our way down to Hue (central Vietnam). ...
Sapa
... bed) and we eventally got the damp firewood lit (despite it being the dry season). All this we realise is par of the course, Vietnam is after all Communist and only opened its doors to foreigners in 1986! Sapa is actually a wonderful town set high in the ...
Trekking in Sapa: Part 3
... a lower price. We then had a heart to heart with our guide, where he ranted (in a good way!) that people in Vietnam have access to the internet, and they know what westerners pay for goods outside of Vietnam. He felt that many tourists come here ...
Sapa
Went to Sapa for a few days. Sapa is in North-Vietnam. It's the coldest town in all of Vietnam. It's a small town with lots of small villages sourrounding it. We did a one day trek to one of the tribes village. Met a German couple and hired some ...
Day 68: Reaching the summit of Mt Fansipan
... pyramid plaque telling us we had reached the top. On a good day, you can look as far as China and Laos and you can peer into Sapa below. The view would have been the icing on the cake, but we were all delighted to have made it none the less. We spend half ...
Cat Cat Village, Sapa
... it does demonstrate how these people live but I think in the next few years tourism will overtake. As an example in Sapa town you are inundated with the Hmong girls selling you everything - swearing they make it or their fathers make it. ...
Sapa Adventure Day 2
The Bike Ride I got an early start this morning to maximize my Nam exposure. I took the bike again, but this time I went much further. The dude who rented me the bike talked me out of taking the helmet. I don't need it he says - who am I to argue? ...
Sapa
... any difference. The people around here believe they have the right to hace what we have without working for it. They think we should give them whatever they want and be happy to do it. It's so not what I thought Vietnam would be ...
Tapa Tapa Tapa - Sapa Sapa Sapa
... to WiFi...it's everywhere! Who knew? So we should be decent with the updates here on out...in theory. Right! So on to Sapa! We took the overnight train from Hanoi, which was pretty decent. We had a four person berth, so were slightly nervous about ...
life with the H'Mong hill tribes
... night, the mornings are cool and a bit misty, really nice for walking. Something that has surprised us since being in Vietnam is the availability of free fast internet connections, compared with New Zealand and Australia where I have paid for almost every ...
The Rice Wine Diaries
... to take the third night train in four nights back to Hanoi. All in all, the trip to Sapa was well worth it. It is a part of Vietnam that looks very different to the traditional coastline stops, and escaping the haze of Hanoi and getting some ...
Another Village, another trek
Our hotel recommended an 18 yr old girl from a Black Hmong village to trek with us through Lau Chai (you have to be accompanied). She was willing to answer any question. Most girls in the villages marry between 16 & 18. She wants to wait a couple ...
Trekking and mopeds
Sapa's a picturesque chilled out place compared to Hanoi.. Far fewer mopeds in the small town, surrounded by rice paddies and mountains. The first day started well as I managed to walk straight into a sign (insert stereotypical remark about Asian height ...
Trekking at Sapa Village
... for dinner then tried to find something that is both warm, and that will fit. after a while we found a shop called Made in Vietnam where we got some snow jackets. Mine is a down filled black number. Alex and Taylor got North Face branded ( probably fake) ...
The Beauty of Sa Pa
... how far you might fall. But we made it in and out without incident and caught a motorbike back to Sa pa. If you're in Vietnam, Sa pa's definitely a place you want to try and visit. It is a good idea to check the weather before you commit. You ...
Trekking in the mud!!!
... of the trek short due to the muddy conditions & headed back up the hill to the road where a mini bus drove us back to Sapa. Now that was a scary 30 minute ride on this narrow windy road. The driver didn’t go fast but drove soooo close to ...
Day 66: The beautiful mountain town of Sapa
... . She stood out so much thanks to her amazing traditional clothing and vivid green tartan like hat. It was almost like northern Vietnam meets the Scottish highlands. She was looking to get an early sale on some of her tribal craftwork. She was really nice ...
Sapa
Good morning Vietnam... We gaan vandaag stoer doen. Om 9.30 worden we opgehaald door een H'mong gids die met ons op trekking de bergen in gaat. De gids is een H'mong meisje , ze heet Lilly en is 17 jaar. Gelukkig hebben we gisteren op de markt twee ...
Trekking in the mist
... a village, where we sampled moonshine straight from the still and inspected broom making and tapioca crunching technologies. That night back in Sapa, again, I ate ribs. On our last day, Hung offered to have his brother take us trekking for free, but ...
Walking with the Hill Tribes
... memories of the places we visit but this little girl in particular will always be the first thing I think about when I remember Sapa. As we spent the morning walking down into the valley it was no surprise that the afternoon was spent walking all the way ...
Goodbye Vietnam...
Hallo Leute! Unser Aufenthalt in Vietnam neigt sich langsam den Ende zu... Am Mittwoch brachen wir also zum Fansipan auf. Der Fansipan (3143m) ist der hoechste Berg Vietnams und ganz Suedostasiens. Wir haben mit Dascha und Steve zusammen einen Fuehrer ...
Trekking through the rice paddies
... recommendations to go to Sapa, so we decided to check it out. We booked with "Ethnic Travel", which advertises an authentic experience. Sapa is located 9 hours north of Hanoi, not far from the Chinese border. We boarded on to the 8 pm night train with ...
Sapa
... it was simply a shuttle service from Sapa to Bac Ha to Sapa but I should know by now that everythings a package tour in Vietnam. After being scared off Bac Ha by people saying its really touristy - I actually really enjoyed it. I shunned the suggested ...
Sapa
Sapa est un petit village dans la montagne tout au nord du Vietnam, a environ 2000m d'altitude(autant dire qu'il fait froid, 5 degres!), a la frontiere avec la Chine. Il est connu pour ses plateaux de rizieres en cascade et les H'mongs, des ethnies ...
Arrival in Sapa
... waited for the shuttle to fill we chatted with a couple from Melbourne and another couple from Adelaide. The trip uphill to Sapa took about 45 minutes. In Sapa, at each hotel stop the shuttle bus was surrounded by the local hilltribe girls trying ...