Cat Cat Guesthouse Sapa

Kaytiin fillaroimassa Kristan synttareiden kunniaksi laheiseen Cat Cat kylaan. Sellanen hyvin alkeellinen thaikkukyla vesiputouksella. Puolenpaivan reissu. Jalat oli viel suht farssina vuorikiipeilysta.    Tanaan piti lahtea kohti Kiinan ...

... the 12-seater with the most westerners (all 4 of them) we were surprised when it finally set off with 17 passengers with baggage. Cat Cat Hotel was an eventual kind of place - we eventually got a room (despite a reservation), we eventually had hot water ...

... chicks wandering around, small bamboo homes, winding mountain roads, friendly helpful locals, handicraft markets........ We stayed at the Cat Cat guest house, recommended by friends we met along the way. Not bad for 10USD/night, although the mattress ...

We arrived in Lao Cai at 6am, having had diddly-squat shut eye... and got a minivan to Sapa. Got to our hotel (called Cat Cat Hotel)... and decided to go for a little hike to the village of the same name (Cat Cat Village), which was only 3km ...

... the street markets. We arrived in Sapa which is situated high in the mountains and checked into our hotel which was called Hotel Cat Cat. Our room appeared to be in the budget part as there was a make shift building site above our room. The ...

... made it to Sapa! 8 hours by train, 1 hour by bus... and ohhhhh man was it worth it!!! We're staying at a hotel called the Cat Cat Hotel which sits near the top of a mountain and it looks like an Italian villa! Our room is gorgeous and we have a fantastic ...

... , markets and had a pizza for dinner. In the morning Ping arrived to take us on a short walk through a closer village called Cat Cat. She arrived in the same traditional clothing but this time had a new western style pink frilly sun hat. She was pretty ...

... :-) Quer durch plateaufoermige Reisfelder, ueber diverse Baeche und an Wasserfaellen vorbei sind wir dann das ganze Sapa Valley nach Cat Cat hochgewandert. Es war einfach traumhaft und auch das Wetter hat super mitgespielt. Cat Cat ist schliesslich ein ...

... , Sam and I knew what was going on. We walked for about 6km the first day, through rice terraces and past waterfalls, to Cat Cat Village, chatting to Thu and the little H'Mong the whole way. The scenery was absolutely stunning, so beautiful we didn't even ...

... , just increase their intensity in the sale) After a morning of enjoying the town, we decided to checked out the closest village to it - Cat Cat. It was only a 2km walk downhill, which meant 2km back uphill - groan! Walking down, we had to first pay 25000 ...

... to sell the tourists their native products. Tuesday morning, we did one more small hike to a local village called Cat Cat village, just 3 km south of Sapa. Here the local black Hmong people live. It was a beautiful hike, and their village is located ...

... five kilometres outside the town and spent a few hours there swimming and exploring the valley.  Then we continued on the bikes to Cat Cat village.  We didn't stop in the village, just drove through it, but it was pretty cool to see.  ...

... by the fire, breastfeeding, sewing, cooking, doing their thing and welcoming us. after visiting the family, we kepy walking through cat cat village. the views were amazing, rolling hills, misty rivers, and we ended the walk in a beautiful waterfall, ...

... we woke to clear skys and saw the amazing view that had been hiding from us over the previous two days. That day we hiked to Cat Cat Village before having to catch our train back to Hanoi. The views we got during the hike were simply stunning and it was ...

After a pretty In Sapa we booked our trek through Sapa Trekking before going for a waunder 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 ...

... soup, is a delicious breakfast, and only $1 (Aust. of course!). Taking my leave of a wearied Rog, I set off to Cat Cat village and waterfall, thru the Black H'mong village where they are struggling to find a comfortable spot midway between traditional ...

... at a hotel and decided to walk to the actual town to try to find somewhere else to stay. On the way a lady gave us a card of a guesthouse and walked us to it. We looked at three rooms, $15, $10 and $6 respectively and decided on the $15 one as she agreed ...

... but we hope it clears up tomorrow morning (otherwise we would have paid the extra US$9 for the mountain view room for nothing). Sapa is definitely worth visiting (if only for the coffee) but it is very touristy and you seem to bump into the same people ...

... ) and we were put into a room with 2 other lovely VN people.  WE GOT EXTREMELY LUCKY...heard some horror stories in Sapa.  We later discovered they were traveling for business.  We played cards and then went to sleep.  We were woken at ...

... hours climbing up down and round it already!!! Twas amazing it was around some of the hill tribes that live here in Sapa, their living conditions are so poor its unbelievable that people in the year 2008 are living like this!!! The people here ...