Baguette & Chocolat
Travel Blogs from Sapa
North Vietnam, the final countdown
The 16 hour bus journey to Hanoi arrived at 6am and wasn't fun. I give up on valium, it doesn't work. Booking into a stinky hotel we decide there's no point trying to sleep so we wander around Hanoi city centre. It's busy and noisy but not as bad as Ho Chi Minh and the climate is much cooler so really it's quite nice. With only eight days of our …
Goodbye China - my personal summary
... deluxe places in trains) in the major cities like Beijing, Suzhou and Hangzhou were state of the art and sometimes even more modern than in Germany. However, some other transportation (i.e. for the ordinary locals), and transportation outside of the major cities, is very old-school and sometimes quite scary.
What surprised me a lot was that many signs on the roads (highways and city streets alike) are now also stated in English next to the Chinese characters, making ...
I'll Always Remember, Lessons Learned, Chau and Me
... quo in my relationship with Chau, I was able to allow myself to fully appreciate and feel what she had to offer me as her gift... I may have given with money...she and Anne and the people of Vietnam paid it forward to me with their unselfish gift of care and friendship.
And that is a great place to end this story… this trip has been a real double wowsa… words may limit, but the feelings from this trip will live inside me forever… big time!'
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Day 40-42 26th-28th Nov Sapa Vietnam
... happy and chatty we settled down to sleep.
One noisy and bumpy ride later we were awoken by the sound of crackly music and banging on the door! it was 6am and we had arrived!! Woo hoo, off the train and onto the minibus to take us to Sapa. After an extremely windy and hairy drive later and Beyers sitting with his eyes closed we finally arrived in Sapa!! We went to the hotel and were split into groups, we were happy to find out we were with Amanda and Kevin for our trek.
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Trek through the H'mong villages
... an embroided bag and I had to bargain hard to get it down to 100,000dong. (same thing in Sapa sells for about 50,000 dong or less)
The day was awesome and we all had a good laugh, good company, amazing views. Id recommend one of these treks as it was out of the way and the only other group of people we saw was another trekking group.
I had a good scrub when I got back to the hotel, then off we went for another meal at Natureview restaurant with ...
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Other places to stay in Sapa
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Pinocchio Hotel
15 Muong Hoa (Pho Cau May), Sapa | Hostelfrom $15 -
Green Valley Hotel
045 Muong Hoa rd, Sapa | 3 star hostelfrom $10 -
Sapa Hostel
09 Fanxipan, Sapa | Hostelfrom $16
