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Night Train To Sapa
Our train departed Hanoi at 9.15 p.m and expected to arrive Lao Cai at 6 a.m.next day. It's a night tourist train with 4 berths to a room.Almost all the wagons were full with foreign tourists, mainly Europeans.We had to share ours with a young Polish couple.
The travel agent was kind enough to send us to the station and for very good …
Goodbye China - my personal summary
... of time on eating and it is a very important social happening. The Chinese will always gather in bigger groups for food in restaurants and share all their plates among each other (i.e. no one will order a dish just for himself). The effect of this sharing is that the ordered food is never delivered at the same time. So trying it the western way to start eating altogether when everybody has his own dish will never work!
All in all there is so much different and great ...
Ken 'Fugitive' Kimball Seeks One-Eyed Masseuse
... 8230; ‘Where can I find the one-eyed woman?’ … I was told to go to the corner store that had a big ‘Massage’ sign on it, like perhaps 25-30 other stores with the same massage sign. They said that yes, the one eyed masseuse indeed worked for them, but I would need to go to a storefront down the street and wait… she would come and join me. Chau was getting her massage from a different lady. Soon at the door was ...
Day 40-42 26th-28th Nov Sapa Vietnam
... is the only way! After buying a bag and two small ribbon bracelets we were back on the road up to the next village where we were to spend the night in the homestay. We arrived here at 3pm, the boys had a nap while Amanda and I went off to explore some more of the village. We didn't know were to go so just headed down the road and down a muddy walkway, up the bank and we were back along the rice terraces. A buffalo was in one of the pools of water eating so we got some snaps, before ...
Making friends in Sapa
... etc. It is also a space for people to socialise; most of them walk there during the night from their villages in the hill and meet up with friends from other tribes – according to our guide, it is common to see some women carry almost unconscious husbands out of the market by mid-morning; rice wine is potent stuff. Whilst we didn’t see any of the carrying, we noticed a lot of the drinking.
We only spent a few hours in the ...