Darling Hotel Sapa

... style). It was also time to crack open the Malaria Medicine, aka Rice Wine. Every 2/3 minutes we'd stop eating so that they could propose a toast, and then we'd knock back our shot. It tastes like Tequila so I'm not too bad with it, but I could tell that Simone was struggling a bit! Finally though we'd drank all the wine and the food was all gone. We were then told that it was bedtime for the whole village (it wasn't even 8pm!) so off to bed we went. The bed was a ...

... a blackboard, a small mirror.
We ventured a bit further than other tourists and sat in the
classroom at the back. The children were cute especially when class
started and they sang a national song. For a couple of minutes there
was no noise – the teacher didn't say anything as she stood with
her back to the class writing math problems on the board – the
children (in amazing penmanship) copied and answered the problems in
their ...

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I took a little trek on my own on Sunday, through Cat Cat village, which is an easy walk down a valley to the most spectacular waterfall (found another random person to take my photo), but then I decided to lose the rest of the tourists and head a bit further and up the other side of the valley.

Luckily I found my way back to the road, and the very welcome sight of a man on a motorbike to take me back to town. They always know ...

... really of us on the trek, Mei, me and a polish lady who lived in Barcelona named Anya. Our guide named "Lin", was born in one of the minority villages in the mountains, each tribe also has their own language but most of the younger generations speak Vietnamese too. We walked down the valley and were surrounded by rice fields in steps up the mountains, it was really beautiful. We had lunch by a river and were surrounded by women and children from ...

... where it falls off of the edge of the map, that was my destination. Tour group’s abilities to clog up a walk way never cease to amaze me. It’s like they get together and practice before going out for the real thing. Especially when there’s umbrellas involved, and being in Asia, there’s always umbrellas involved. I had to squeeze by two more groups before I had open path in front of me. Should have gotten up earlier. The path was made of rocks cemented into ...

... but not much party. Great place to ride a motorbike. Had some random spa bath which was like bathing in someones ****!! Checked a few waterfalls out and went on awesome motorbike ride today where i went swimming in amazing waterfall. Sapa is great just all about nature and no party!! Anyway heading back to Hanoi for few days and then Bangkok on Monday and straight down to ko pan for full moon again!!!

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... red and black tops and skirts with huge red hats) sell trinkets, bed spreads, bags and jewelry to all the foreigners as well as offer the experience of going with them to their village to see how they live. You seriously can't walk down the street without being bombarded by someone trying to sell you something and it gets to the point where you just want some space.

That said, they are all very sweet with big smiles and are super good natured as ...

... perfect!
Chai's dad gave us rice wine with the meal - ouch! Then we had green tea and headed back to the house... hung out there for a while and it was pretty mad....
It looked like Chai's mum was torturing her brother by pinching him and sticking a needle into him, all over his chest, back etc... turns out it's a form of tribal medicine as he was feeling sick....
Meanwhile her dad was smoking tobacco through a massive pipe (bong!)....
Before we left ...