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Lao Cai Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lao Cai, Vietnam
Trek près de Bac Ha
... Ha, je devais récupérer mon gros sac, petite angoisse, mais ça a bien marché. Je devais ensuite changer à Lao Cai pour Sapa. Les bus se sont croisses, mon chauffeur à fait signé à l'autre bus, ils se sont ...
What's that? Rice. What's that? Rice.
... the walks through the mountains to hill tribe villages and up on motorbikes to the Tram Ton Pass - the highest road in Vietnam, where the weather systems of Vietnam's hottest place meets with the coldest (that being Sapa).Interesting vibe due to the ...
I can see China
... you would not stop here at all. After breakfast, feeling slightly better we did the "busman's tour" before heading off on a hair raising 38 kms trip up the mountainside to our destination for the next few days, Sapa. Lao Cai - Been there, Done that...!!! ...
Sapa Adventure Days 5-8
We took horrible bus ride back to Hanoi from Ha Long bay, then an overnight train to Sapa. We arrived in Sapa in the morning and taxied to our hotel. Hotel was very nice. Went for a day trek through one of the villages. It was very hot and everyone got ...
Lion of Sapa
... , enjoyed more of the town, not too busy and no one hassling tourists. Our hotel had a Lion Dog, well a dog trimmed and dyed to look like one. No roar and no bite. In the evening, boarded the overnight train at Lao Cai for the journey downhill to ...
Lao Cai
day 5 une petite gare... de montagne... toujours ce memem sentiment a la montagne, les choses sont plus colorees, plus espacees et plus pures.... on arrive tot et on prend un bon bol de Pho pour le petit dej! la vie commence. un minibus nous emene ...
Crossing into China!
... no one seemed to speak any English. We walked the streets trying to find a bureau de change but ended up having to swap Vietnam Dong with a dodgy looking guy on a street corner, we have since found out this is normal procedure for changing money in ...
Thousand Happy Souls in Sapa
... met Chu's little toddler brother, so he got a sugarcane treat from me. Back to hotel for early dinner and left for Lao Cai which took 1 hour. The drive down Sapa was windy but the views of rice paddies etching into the valleys of ...
Het verre noorden
... een nacht met weinig slaap door de kou en de bumpy ride. Gelukkig komen we om 5 uur 's ochtends heel aan op het station van Lao Cai waar we een minibusje nemen die ons naar Sa Pa brengt. We komen een dik uur later aan en zijn helemaal gebroken. Snel een ...
Northern Vietnam: The Misty Mountains Part Two
... Nonetheless, it was still a brilliant day out and a refreshing change from the hustle and bustle of Vietnam's cities. At 5pm, we were returned to Lao Cai to take the night bus to Hanoi. The northern Vietnamese mountains are without doubt one of the ...
Trektocht door de rijstvelden en bergen van Sa Pá
Met onze gids en 3 andere stellen (Israelisch, Canadees, Australisch) lopen we het dorp uit. Gisteravond was het nog heel erg mistig en zag je niks van de bergen. Nu is het wat bewolkt en komt de zon er regelmatig tussendoor. De eerste paar kilometer ...
Jeep to Sapa and back, Day 5
In the morning I wished we'd be able to go all the way to Hanoi, after all it's possible - the buses do that. But then, when we hit the road I understand that it's not going to be fun - the road still sucks big time, probably the most of the traffic to ...
Long Jỏurney
Hi evểyone in sa pa safe but poor intểrnet access. Lots òf roadwork along the way. Great photos, cold and foggy here. Will póst more in 2 ...
Lao Cai -> Sapa
Koniec lenistwa. Czas ruszyc tylek i pochodzic troche po gorach. Podobno wejscie na Fansipan zajmuje kilka dni, ale nie sprawdzilismy tego dokladniej. Jesli to prawda, to nie mamy na to czasu. Fundujemu sobie za to maly spacer po wietnamskiej dzungli ...
New Friends - Minority Villages - Rice Fields
... ; There were lots of water buffalo on the road as well. It was a very enjoyable drive down the mountain. When we got to Lao Cai, the driver got our luggage off the car and left and Sonny stayed with us at a little Café near the train ...
Sapa to Lao Cai to Train
... school is reinforced by the problems obviously rampant in the area. There are government plans are to build a university in Lao Cai to encourage the youth to further their education, but this is well into the future. The only place for further ...
Another full day of travel
... train doesn't leave until 7.30 pm, and my taxi pickup is coming for me at 5.15 pm to take me to the train station in Lao Cai. Since I have lots of time to kill, I decided to see what Sapa has to offer. There are lots of really ...
The terraced rice fields - Sapa
The walk through the villages and the terraced rice fields is simply stunning. Our guide came to pick us up at the hotel and the hike started straight away (Sapa itself is not very big). We first made a stop at the local market to get fruits (and a ...
Overnight Train Journey
... over breakfast together with who snores the most either in the cabin or the cabin next door. The arrival at Lao Cai situated on the Chinese - Vietnam border at approximately 5:30 am sees many a tired cold tourists, either pushing through the exit gates or ...
SaPa
Very misty today so no views but still managed a good walk to some different villages. This time we went with a Belgian couple as well as our guide Son (pronounced Song). The hills we went through have cave systems and during the Chinese invasion of 1978 ...
Train to Sapa
We took the Livitran to Sapa. The train is not like the pictures, but the room was fine. The train ride was very rough and it was hard to sleep. The good thing was that the air conditioning worked well. When we arrived at the train station, our part of ...
Sa Pà
... Jour 8 (02/03/2010) Journée très calme. Matinée chez l'habitant, ensuite déjeuner à Sa Pà, flanage et retour à la gare de Lao Cai en début de soirée pour un train de nuit (encore un!) pour revenir sur Hanoï pour notre dernière journée dans le ...
Trekking in Sapa
After a rough night, we arrived at the train station in Lao Cai early in the morning, exhausted. We had a bus that drove us to Sapa, a long and winding way up into the mountains. We were dropped off at the Sapa Summit hotel where we all could take a ...
Sep 30, 2010
Lao Cai--on route to Sapa
... than sleeping on rough waters!) (of course Gravol helped Jennifer pass out immediately!) We woke up at Lao Cai at 6am. Lao Cai is actually right at the Vietnam-Chinese border. We were then shuttled onto a bus to take us up into the hills of Sapa (1 ...
Hanoi to Lao Cai
... we meet up with another couple from home currently travelling Vietnam under my contact, Alice Do’s, guidance. Tonight is our train trip Lao Cai, up on the Chinese border, so we move by bus to the railway station and board the ‘Orient ...
In the mountains
... that held us up fort an extra three hours. never mind. Anyway, Sa Pa is a beautiful mountain town in the north-west of Vietnam, about an hour or so from the Chinese border. It seems that the main attractions are the trekking, the local markets filled with ...
Ed2 more minorities
... foot massage. There must be a million little shops offering various types of massage. We got back in the minibus for our trip back to Lao Cai and boarded the night train back to Hanoi. I didn't sleep as well this time and we arrived back in the capital at ...
More on the road to Sapa
So for those of you who have been to Maui, the road to Sapa is not unlike the road to Hana, full of beauty on both sides, winding turns and treacherous traffic (motorbikes own the road here). Also like a trip to Hana, it takes all day to get to Sapa, ...