Chau Long Sapa

... for road trip to Hanoi. We will travel to Mai Chau for two nights home stay with overnight stops at Lai Chu, Moung Long and Dien Bien Phu. From Mai Chau we travel to Hanoi and if things go to plan we will visit our guides family on the way. Four nights ...

... . Five of us are traveling together and from a bike trip through the southern Mekong Delta to the mountains outside of Sapa we are combining adventure with spirituality with relaxation and apparently there's flooding there right now. We hope that it ...

... note a photography gallery, so add that to our list of must-dos. We reach the narrow alleyway leading down to our hotel, the Chau Long Sapa Hotel. Our driver backs the van down to the entrance and it is only when we stop that I notice the change that has ...

... go walking, we felt that there may be little to do out there, so changed our plans and went instead to another hotel in SaPa, the Chau Long.   This turned out to be a very good move. The heating in the bedroom was good, and it was lovely ...

... that he has the same size feet! Needless to say, she tightened her laces and kept walking. We checked into the Chau Long hotel, and were ushered into the suite! A more fantastic accomplishment of plumbing has never before been witnessed. Check out ...

... us for dinner - which was very poor! Back to room by 2030 asleep by 2130 ! Mimosa quality 1.5/5 service 2/5 val 4 money 2/5 ambiance 1/5 total 6.5/20 Chau Long Sapa Hotel ambiance 3/5 service 3.5/5 room 3/5 breakfast 3.5/5 total ...

Located in the northwest of the country, Sapa is a mountainous district of Lao Cai province, a land of modest, quietly but many hidden wonders of the natural scene. The natural scenery of Sapa is combined with the creativity of human beings with the ...

... stayed one more night in a Sapa hotel and then a ½ day trek to another village.  In the afternoon, we wandered through the Sapa markets.  After dinner, we were back on the bus and then the night train back to Hanoi, arriving at 5am. Our hotel ...

... espíritus para que le diga el futuro a una familia. 10 de agosto Hoy nos levantamos tranquilamente y nos quedamos por Sapa. Andamos 2 horas (ida y vuelta) hasta el pueblo de Cat Cat, comemos y descansamos tranquilamente hasta las 6 que es cuando ...

... we arose early and headed of on our trip at around 9AM. Our guide was a Red Dzao lady from a village about 7 kilometers fron Sapa. After short drive we arrived at the village of Lao Chai where we walked down a big hill accompanied all the while by about ...

... Mai is a very enterprising young woman. Not only does she act as a "Wendy Wu" guide for Aussies venturing into the Sapa region, she also took us to her brother Anh's recently opened cafe for lunch. And we were driven from Lao Cai by cousin ...

... wear Black.  The children are beautiful.  Many of the villagers have never set foot outside their own area and a trip into Sapa is a major event; very few have motorbikes and they walk everywhere.  School is not mandatory but kids often have to walk ...

... their clothes black. Nic got the best deals and a few friendship bracelets free!! We had a free afternoon so decided to investigate Sapa - it is a really quaint town we did a reccie to see where we might venture out for tea! There is a theme ...

... on the back with the driver with the cheeky smile!  We set off to Tram Tom Pass which is a very high pass between Sapa and Lai Chau provinces, which would normally provide a view of Fansipan (the highest mountain in Indo-China) but thanks to Sapa's ...

... , they added another layer to it. Our second day in Sapa found us back on the motorbike, heading northwest into the Lai Chau Province. Driving in this direction, you cross the Tram Ton Pass, the highest mountain pass in Vietnam. On the Sapa side, ...

From Hue it is an overnight train to Hanoi, then another overnight train to Sapa, our chosen destination. That would have been far too easy though so we decided to take a six day road trip around the mountains of North West Vietnam. This turned out ...

... between Sapa and China. So tribes in close proximity to each other could not effectively speak to one other. Lai Chau was beautiful, the rice paddies covered the mountainous region and turned it into a giant staircase. Spring was ...