Bien May Hotel Sapa
10 Thi tran Sapa Sapa, Vietnam
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All night on the train and mucho rain
We loved Hoi An, but not the hotel so much. We both had some clothes made and also shoes. The shoe stores measure your feet in different ways and then makes the ones you choose in a matter of hours, or the next day. The clothes are also done the same way. Hoi An is an interesting town, the old section looks like it did hundreds of years ago.
Our guide and the driver then took us north about 4 hours to Hue. Hue used to be the capital of VN and ...
Markets And Mud
... New Years Day, we spent a couple of hours touring the Bac Ha market. Like the market of the previous day, this was a truly authentic experience with a livestock section that DH was unwilling to explore (one of the 'benefits' of having a Vietnamese speaker with us was finding out just how pervasive dog meat is on local menus). Although very much a part of North Vietnam life, it was still very hard to see dogs in an environment that is well outside of our established comfort zone ...
Farewell Sweet Sapa
... my bladder during our tour, but it was completely worth it. At 9.30 we met our tour guide. I can't remember his name, but he was ten million kinds of lovely. It turned out that he is married to the lady from our hotel, and his English was fantastic. He was energetic, enthusiastic, interesting and had beautiful smiling eyes. Our first stop was Golden Stream Love Waterfall (I know.) We drove to the highest mountain pass in Vietnam, where there is a National Park and where the ...
Rancho Relaxo
... Then again at 7.45. I have no idea who it was, but have learnt a valuable lesson about sleeping with your mobile volume turned up to 11. This morning was breakfast at our hotel, followed by a walk to the shops to get some clothes for me, because of course I didn't bring enough winter clothes. We visited one of the eleventy thousand North Face shops that are dotted around Sapa's streets, and I scored a genuine North Face windproof jacket for ...
Ss..ss..ss....Sa Pa,
... open, as they did not amount to much, I lay awake for a while watching the passing sights, mostly stars and various lights in the countryside, with a hint of hills in between the mist, while the train creaked and rattled rhythmically along.
However, to back track a little, I'm not sure if you have seen clips of trains going through residential areas (India I think), where in the absence of the train, the tracks ...


