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24 Muong Hoa Sapa, Vietnam, 84-20-872-404

We arrived in Lao Cai train station at 5.00am and were woken up by the conductor rapping on the door. Neither of us slept very well on the night train- although it was very exciting and felt like we were on the Hogwarts Express! We were lucky and had a cabin of our own which, was lovely and clean, but very noisy. We left the station and jumped on a bus for Sapa. It is a 38km ride through the mountains and it only cost us about 70p each! The scenery was amazing and it took us about an hour. Wh...
Sapa, Vietnam benandnicolaWe arrived back in Hanoi this morning at 4.30 am, we couldn't check into our hotel until 12.00 noon but luckily they let us drop our bags off. We decided to head for the lake as nothing was open. It was great walking through the streets and watching Hanoi wake up. The markets were setting up and locals were gathered together eating their breakfasts. When we arrived at the lake we were amazed at what we saw. Hundreds of locals, young and old, were doing t'ai chi and power walking around the la...
Hanoi, Vietnam benandnicolaWell I got a flight up to Hanoi on Friday morning with Jetstar airlines, one of the low cost airlines here in SE asia. Uneventful flight so not much to report here. Arrived in Hanoi around 10.30am see my bag half hanging off the luggage carousel. This can't be good. Yep...someone had a quick root through the top half of my bag but found nothing of interest to take.... If only they had the bag that I had carried on... laptop, PSP, camera, cash :-) So walked out the airport to find a similiar g...
Sapa, Vietnam bom_globalStayed at Eco-Lodge booked through Tamerind Café Sapa A puddle formed in my undies by 8am every morning - not unusual you might say, but for a change this was not due to an excess of Larue beer the night before - it was fluffin hot. The news was saying 'it velly hot' across Vietnam which puts your average English 'Phew What A Scorcher' into context'. This, and a growing feeling of we were just going to see more of the 'same same' if we carried on south prompted us to get a cheap flight back n...
Sapa, Vietnam helenandphil
... had a large living area with a wood fire in the centre where they did their cooking. The area was divided into different areas such as a place for their foodstuffs, a place for their maize and another for fodder for cattle.. <br><br>As we walked down the path each one of us was accompanied by a couple of girls who asked about our ages, family and where we were going after Sapa. All this was to to soften us up for the sell that came later. Each carried a ...
Sapa, Vietnam nas.latif... br>What was really fun was running into the people working in the rice<br>fields and literally almost running into a water buffalo (check the<br>pics).<br> <br><br>Although we have<br>our own private tour with Chinh, we are not the only tourists who are<br>trekking to the villages – this is a fully organized operation and<br>there are about another 50 or so tourists who will be staying<br>somewhere in the villages with other H'mong or Red Dao guides. When<br ...
Sapa, Vietnam carlaandmike... black leggings & dress, big silver earrings that give them huge earlobes & black hats. There are many different hilltribe people around Sapa & they all speak their own dialect.<br><br> <br><br>We set off to trek 15 km today following lots of other small groups with ther guides & 2 stalkers per group. ( soon all get separated which was ...
Sapa, Vietnam hilaryramsey... ne parlent pas meme le vietnamien mais bien seulement leur dialecte et comprennet seulement certains mots de l'ethnie voisine, qui cultive pourtant la riziere d'a cote!<br> Deux demoiselles nous precedent dans les chemins de CatCat, semblant indifferentesa notre presence. Toutes deux des petites H'mongs noirs.Cheveux au vent et arpentant les cheminsde rizieres de leur pays de montagnes. Un bon bout de chemin plus loin, elles se retournent pour se diriger vers moi, impassibles avec ...
Sapa, Vietnam charlyvaness... br><br><br> The guys asked me run to the kitchen to watch the pig be slaughtered. I made it just in time to see a knife enter just above the pig’s chest bone and sink into his heart. That’s all that I’ll say about that scene. Dinner was good but trying. The greatest opposition came in the form of slightly, and I mean slightly, coagulated pig’s blood. It was still pretty runny, there was some meat and some green veggies in it as well. It was served with ...
Sapa, Vietnam tex25The next day we walked another 15kms up and down the mountains. Whilst we were drenched in sweat in the 30 -35 degree temperatures and over 90% humidity, the views were well worth the walk. Some light rain had left some muddy patches and the local ladies that were walking with us were great at pointing out where i should walk. On one occasion i slid down a muddy hill to have the tiny lady in sandals stop me in my tracks and stop me from being covered in mud ...
Bản Hồ, (VM19), Vietnam lukeandjen
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