Green Hotel Bamboo Sapa

... am on a night train from Hanoi. A minivan took me from there on a winding road up to the mountains to my hotel in Sapa. Breakfast was at 7am, trekking started at 10am. Black Hmong Tribe The trekking path lead us down the valley into Laochai ...

... . We went to a restaurant called Gerbera, located just off the main square and just past the Sapa market. It was a wonderful family owned restaurant who love bamboo. The walls and ceiling were cladded in bamboo. Even the menus were made of bamboo! The ...

... we had even though we didn't get much sleep on the train.  The landscapes were breathtaking, beautiful mountains covered in bamboo forests, terraced rice fields, corn, rivers and waterfalls.  As we got closer to Sapa we noticed more of the ...

... hours to get to Sapa after stopping at a traditional Moung village which was surrounded by lush green mountains and rice paddy fields.  We got into Sapa by lunchtime had a noodle soup lunch, showered and basiclly rested our sore bodies until Shaun ...

... farm animals and acrods rivers...ps..remember my back pack items...see last entry. It was hard yakka, the ladies making us little bamboo grass things and ascking lots of questions..wot your name, how old are you, where you from...from each villager...Bill ...

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... exploring the town promising a neat marketplace, motorbike rides to the cascades and plentiful photo opportunities. We check into the Green Valley Hotel and Glen greets us at the front desk. About 6'1", dark shaggy hair, sleepy eyes, an armful of ...

... waterfall' where we sat with a women at one of the stalls and had lunch - rice cooked in bamboo shoots and pork kababs with spices, followed by lovely Sapa Tea, possibly one of the nicest meals I had since I came to Vietnam! Afterwarrds we headed up ...

... dinner is ready and we set up the little folding table and chairs for us all and sit down to a feast - fried tofu and tomato; bamboo shoot salad; stir fry beef; chicken and the soup it was cooked in; stir fried morning glory; rice and of course Thanh's ...

... all Sapa has been a very great experience. I recommend it to anyone. Linda's Entry: What can I say about Sapa? The scenery - lush green rice terraces cascading all around you. Water Buffalo so tame they come within inches of you and decide to cool ...

... own family. After ploughing with Buffalo's, planting by hand and harvesting by hand, they collect the rice and dry it on large bamboo mats. Every house over hundreds of kilometres had the bamboo mats out drying their rice. I don't understand how there is ...

... filled! By the end of day two I could not have been more dirty, sweaty, and tired. We took a jeep back to Sapa where we had dinner at our hotel walked around for a while and went to sleep...tried to sleep, but we were on the top floor and they were ...

... to sleep. The hut we slept in was like nothing I have experienced before.  We slept about 2 feet off the ground on bamboo shoots.  We had a little padded mat to put under our sleeping bags.  The night was freezing and long!  There ...

... ;B only more basic. We had our own room that was exactly the same size as the bed. The bed itself was made from bamboo poles with a mattress one centimeter thick to provide a modicum of comfort but was hard and unforgiving. The doorway, which was the only ...

... had an unfair advantage and proved the victors. All in all, a fun night was had by all. Day 3- We left the hotel at 9am to meet Shom (means bamboo) who we met by chance the day before. She is a local guide from one of the many hill tribes & ...

... other tourists and drove for an hour into the mountains along a long, broad and winding road towards the tiny town called Sapa. The owner of our hotel, Fansipan View, met the bus and carried our bags up some ancient stone steps to the lobby, where we ...

... , hugging the edge of the upper terraces and watching the river valley flow below me. The serpentine path wound by bamboo homes with thatched roofs, water buffalo grazing in harvested rice paddies, children on stilts navigating flooded terraces, ducks and ...

... arrived at the top of the mountain i was supprised how developed it was. In Vietnam the homes are very basic. Sometimes just some bamboo used as a roof. ON the way up the mountain their were hardly any homes. At the top of Sapa it was quite ...

... , another black hmong village.  Was about 8km of walking in total, through rice paddies, along gushing streams and through dense bamboo forests. On the way to the first we were surrounded by hundreds of other tourists who were doing the same via ...