Boutique Sapa Hotel

... take a bus from the bus station of Lao Cao to Sapa. It's a short 45 minute drive in the mountains to our hotel in Sapa. I will always remember the warm welcome...there's a group of 5 or 6 Black H'mon girls dressed in their typical clothing running behind ...

We were getting the night train to sapa and a guy from our hotel dropped us off, got our tickets and found our train/carriage for us. Good job as station v confusing. We were in a sleeper cabin on top and bottom bunks sharing with 2 others. There was a ...

Itinerary: Day 1: Sapa --> Cat Cat Village --> Sin Chai Village --> Sapa Day 2: Sapa --> Hau thao village --> Lao Chai Village --> Ta Van Village --> Sapa Day 3: Sapa --> Tram tom pass --> Silver waterfall --> Sapa ...

... town near the border of China) and we were ushered out of the train. Then, I boarded a van which took me to my hotel in Sapa. It was very cold in the morning and night, the temperature was around 8 degrees celcius when I arrived. However, it slowly warmed ...

... to us as fast as anything), but I think the little boy was very happy. Our second day in Sapa we declined another bus ride with the hard-partying hotel staff to the train station in Lao Cai, and instead opted to tour with our new travel buddies the long ...

... one you want to explore and spend time in to appreciate its sheer beauty. James and I stayed at the Emotion Boutique hotel- funnily enough, most hotels in Sapa had the word ‘boutique’ in it. The hotel reminded me of Faulty Towers in character, ...

... soup) which was much zestier than the ones we’d had in Hanoi. Feeling cooler and refreshed, we walked back to our hotel through the main market. This is something that is geared to locals – fish still moving around in tanks ready for the ...

... ignore them and they will go away.If you buy something from them they will gladly pose for photograph. Amazingly, Sapa has many boutique hotels,cafes and restaurants serving Vietnamese and Western dishes.It also has its fair share of boutiques selling ...

... mountain road which took us past some spectacular high scenery that actually beat what we’d seen on the walk. Back at the hotel, we had a rest for a while, then ventured out to a cheap massage parlour along the main street that we’d spied. ...

... and chatting with people back at the hotel led us to the evening where it was a few glasses of vino blanc in a beautiful boutique hotel bar (owned by a Dane) and a few Skype calls (great to see baby George Bernard Ockwell  - beautiful baby).  ...

... folks were really friendly though with everyone saying "hello........ come buy something from me!!"...... Back in sapa now.......... did I mention that our hotel faces the mountains....... amazing view....... shame about the fog..... if we can get a ...

... best bloody ripper guide Vung is there to meet us this time. It is a one hour drive up the mountain to Sapa to our Hotel the Cha Pa Boutique Hotel our room is not ready so we are given another rooms as we can shower and change before breakfast. After ...

... propped up at the sides. We were led into a seemingly innocuous house which turned out to be the local clothing boutique. Covering the walls were the traditional garments which all the locals seemed to be sporting transforming the tiny dark space into ...

... tenture sympa. Rentrons donc, en prenant un autre chemin, nous arretons avec Jules prendre une biere dans une petite boutique, pendant que Patrick monte derriere une moto pour effectuer les 4 derniers kilometres en montee. D'ailleurs ils se casseront ...

... of Vietnam very near the Chinese border. There are many highland hill-tribe people to include the H'mong and Red Dzao here and Sapa is the market town for all the surrounding areas. We spent yesterday exploring the town...in a cloud. We are literally ...

... , diving from "our" boat.  All in all, a fantastic experience. Then it was back to land and one night in a lovely hotel in Ha Long City and a visit to the night market (lots of bargaining)....followed by the bus back to Hanoi.  Thanks to a ...

... place to visit, as all travel agents in Hanoi organize tours there. My tour includes overnight trains there and back, 1 night hotel,1 night home stay and all the meals. After a night in a train that did not derailed (the next one did), and a ...

... still wear some of their tribal dress. Well, more women than men, but some of them, too. We took an overnight train to Sapa and then did a hike down to a village called Cat Cat on a trail that wound through small farms and rice paddies. We were trailed ...