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Trekking in Sapa
In Sapa we booked our trek through Sapa Trekking before going for a wander through the nearby Cat Cat village past the village houses, rice paddies, waterfalls and rusting bridges. A little girl started walking with us (she couldn't have been more than 10 years old) and was carrying a baby. She repeatedly kept saying 'buy something from me' in the …
Sapa, Vietnam
Sapa is a little town on the mountain range of Vietnam.This little town is full of locals and tourists, young and old. Most women are wearing the hill tribe outfits, tribes such as Yao, Black Thai and H'mong. When we first arrived in Sapa we were swarmed by a flock of locals either asking, "You buy from me?" or, "Come to my hotel." We followed a …
We've been cold too you know (no snow though!)
So, we last updated everyone when we had just arrived on Cat Ba Island. Through a marvellous Vietnamese scam, which saw some cunning 'entrepreneurs' pay off the local bus so that we were left stranded with nine other people at the dock, we managed to forge an instant group of eleven friends!
We went in search of the beach bungalows, but …
Reisterrassen in Sapa
Mit dem Nachtzug ging es am Dienstagabend (17.05.) fuer 20 Dollar von Hanoi nach Lao Cai. Wir waren diesmal sogar allein im Abteil und hatten eine relativ ruhige Nacht. Allerdings war die Klimaanlage zu kalt eingestellt. :o(
5:30 Uhr erreichten wir Lao Cai und mussten noch etwa 35km mit dem Minibus fuer 40.000 Dong (2 Dollar) nach Sapa fahren. …
Hill tribe trekking
This is a top pick! We arrived in Sapa a little bleary eyed from a night train to be greeted with thick fog and zero visibility. Goodbye to our dreams of rolling hills cut up with paddy fields and trekking in a t-shirt! Maybe we should start checking the weather forecast before we go anywhere?!? Anyway for better or worse we had arranged a 4 day trek with an …
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