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Days 6 & 7 - meeting the local tribes
Today would be a chance to conduct another trek to a village a lot further away than Cat Cat. For this trip we would have our illustrious guide...Sue with us. We set off out of Sapa following the. Main road south for a kilometre before breaking off and heading down the into the valley. We would be walking to Sue's village of Lao Chai and we soon …
Days 4 & 5 - Overnight train and arriving in Sapa
Our train left the chaos of Hanoi station at just after 9pm and we got settled into our little cabin. There were 2 little beds, air conditioning and a table in our cabin and western toilets in our carriage and after an early start at Halong Bay plus a long bus ride back to Hanoi we thought we'd be fast asleep in no time....wrong! Once the train …
And More Sa Pa
We liked Sa Pa so well we extended our stay. We also kept hoping for the clouds and mist to clear so that we might actually see the mountains. We hired a local Hmong woman to take us "trekking" to her village. Our guide, Mimi, is 31 and has three children. We were joined by her sister-in-law who is 16 and pregnant with her first child. (Vietnam has …
Sapa
Neither Lance nor I had been to Sapa, Vietnam. It's way up in the northwest part of the country in the mountains. The French developed it as a hill station so they could escape when the heat in the lowlands was too intense. Today it is a tourist mecca, except that it is so remote it isn't crowded.
Remote means 11 hours on a slow train from …
The Best Market Ever
My girls will tell you that I dragged them to every market in every city and town we ever visited, and it is probably true. I love markets. Any kind - food, flowers, animal, handicraft, antique, whatever. But today's market in Bac Ha, Vietnam is the all time winner. Where else can you buy a water buffalo and lacquered bamboo ware, skinned snake …