Sapa Boutique Hotels - Reviews and Rates

7 de agosto

Llegamos a Lao Cai a las 5.30am. Un coche nos espera para ir a Sapa.
Es muy temprano, asi que la habitación no está preparada, pero si el desayuno y nos ponemos la botas.

Hasta que nos den la habitación, nos damos un paseo por Sapa para preguntar por excursiones. Después de ver diferentes sitios, decidimos contratarl...

After taking a taxi to to the train station in Hanoi with tickets in hand and bags on our backs we crossed the platforms in search of our train and our sleeping berth. It is a bit confusing and luckily someone who works there grabbed our tickets, took off at a very fast pace and told us to follow... it was a rush to keep up but he lead us right ...

Friday 1/8/08 just before dawn the train moves slowly through the rising mist & rain in the mountain as we approach Lao Cai. The dawn breaks through the mist and as small villages and vegetable gardens slip by I try to take some photos but this is impossible due to the rain and grime on the windows, Finally about 6am the train stops at stati...

Decided to visit the closest Hmong village this morning... down the hill from our hotel. The walk is steep downhill. At the checkpoint you pay 15,000VD entrance fee. A track has been made that winds down the valley past rice paddies, vegetable patches and villagers homes. Kids are aplenty along with family pigs, dogs and chickens. There is an ob...

Another train ride, another destination. Pete and I once again booked ourselves an overnight train traveling 'hard sleeper' (6 bed cabin) to Sapa. The previous hard sleepers had been fine- a bit like a zoo at times bearing in mind how many people are in your tiny square cabin, but generally comfortable. This train was, as they say in south east ...

Bonjour a tous, bon mois de juillet rempli de beau temps ou que vous soyez. Depuis notre dernier message en provenance de Hanoi il y a environ une semaine, nous avons chemine jusqu'a la baie d'Halong, situee sur la cote est du Vietnam. La baie d'halong est constituee d'une multitude d'iles qui emergent subitement et tres abruptement de la mer. L...

We wake up to find its been raining all night - torrential rain! So our drive back up to Sapa becomes the drive of waterfalls. The rivers are brown with the silt washed off the paddies, swollen and raging - a big difference from the gently gurgling streams we saw yesterday. And water is just streaming off the mountains. Unfortunately the cloud i...

Name: Thao Thi Cha (Cha) Age: 20 Marital status: married Job: Tourist guide Religion: No religion I'm attempting to "see" Vietnam in 10 days. Impossible. It is a long, long country with changing landscapes and 84 million residents - there is a lot to see. I try to make up for the lack of time by going on organized tours - they get you around fas...

Après une nuit passée en première classe dans le train (un gros 5$ de plus allez-retour), nous prenons à nouveau un autobus trop petit pour nos jambes d'occidentaux. Le trajet se termine 2h plus tard et 1400m plus haut, à Sa Pa. Ce petit village de montagne est entouré de fermes et de hamots où habitent des minorités ethniques de la région. Les ...

We awoke to a stunning, clear, blue-sky day in Sapa, with amazing views from our balcony across to the Fansipan mountains. After a filling breakfast in the sun, we met our guide and took an old Russian military truck to the starting point of today's hike. We descended down the hillside and rice patties on a rough dirt track. Today we trekked thr...