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Thac Bac St. Sapa, Vietnam

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Big fat foggy Sapa

A travel blog entry by crystals_blog

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... route about 3 times a day, everyday of the week, so we arrived safely.

We'd checked online the night before for hostels in Sapa, and this was the best of a bad (cheap) bunch. We checked in and they wanted to keep my passport, which i never like as i'm always scared i'll forget it, at check out. The room was freezing and there was no heater, the bathroom was basic but big, we knew we were going to have to sleep in our hoodys again to keep warm.

It was about 8.30am ...

Markets And Mud

A travel blog entry by tdv95

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... poorly- DH found herself limited to one gear (which became a problem on the uphills) and my chain exploded (which became a problem on all hills). We had a spare bike so we were able to get back to town with no further mishaps (although a newly developed bowlegged walking style might be counted as a mishap).

Our New Years Eve was a tame affair (although some festivities were on display in the larger Vietnamese centres, the big party for Vietnam is the Tet Lunar New ...

Tourism By Braille

A travel blog entry by tdv95

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... visiting the various hill tribes of North Vietnam but it's a secret no longer. The one good thing about the fog was that we weren't subject to the same hassles as many other travelers have reported (the local touts couldn't see us any better than we could see them), but it did seem as though that each of the hill tribe women that we encountered was very interested in loading us up with all kinds of regional memorabilia. ...

Rancho Relaxo

A travel blog entry by mrsharvey

... trackie daks and woollen cardie (the only winter clothes I brought, because I accidentally unpacked my jeans before we left) and headed back out again. Of course, now that I was warm, the sun came out from its hiding place behind the fog, and illuminated the town with warm, golden rays. We visited an ATM, where I was excited to see that my current balance was 90,000,000, then, as we were still feeling kind of indecisive about our day, we thought ...

Ss..ss..ss....Sa Pa,

A travel blog entry by boesabroad

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... which had hot water, in batches, one shower later, had a look around and sat at on the veranda overlooking the hills of Sapa, then I'm afraid it was time for a nap, did I tell you how cold it was? Brrrr.

We awoke for an early dinner and about 10 of the group also decided they needed some sustenance. Dinner was convivial and delicious, caramel minority pork for me (which has now been rebranded as "minority ...

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