Mountain View Hotel Sapa
Cau May Sapa, Vietnam
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelMountain View Hotel Sapa
Good Morning Vietnam!
On arrival, we changed some money, quickly became multi-millionaires (the exchange rate is 28 000 VND to 1 GBP) and headed out for pizza. Sapa is very tourist-orientated with Western restaurants everywhere we looked. After dinner, we spent the last few hours of daylight strolling the town. We walked around Sapa lake (which really was just a large …
Hill tribes of Vietnam and brutal sickness
In the green mountains of Vietnam, often covered in fog, lies the town of Sapa. This was my last destination in Vietnam and had been talked up to me since the very beginnings of my backpacking trip in Australia. After a fast goodbye to Ciaran and Amy in Hanoi and a decent overnight train ride I checked into the Mountain View Hotel. This place has …
You Buy Flom Me............!
The journey from Hanoi to Sapa was by another Sleepertrain. Unlike the sleepertrain I got from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, this one was 4 bed cabins and a lot more luxurious, and you could even turn the light out! It left Hanoi at 8.30pm, arriving in Cha Pa at around 5am. Cha Pa is right on the border with China, in fact when you get to the station you …
Sapa
It is so gorgeous here. The name of our hotel, Mountain View, is very fitting. Here's the view from our window: Unbelievable, right? The minibus ride to Sapa from the train station took an hour and it was absolutely stunning. Surrounded by mountains, streams and waterfalls, and lush green terraced rice paddies... it was the best $1.50 I've ever …
Sapa
We decide to do Sapa on our own rather than opt for a tour. We get the overnight train to Sapa from Hanoi which leaves at 9:20pm and gets in about 6am (to Lao Cai). We opt for a soft sleeper carriage which has 4 beds and aircon, seems the best option - certainly better than the 'hard seat' which is a wooden slatted seat! Once we arrive we get a …



