Friday, August 04, 2006

A few words

Sapa was amazing. I wasn’t too fussed about going, but so far the greatest place I have been in Vietnam. It was a 10 hr train ride up, which started out hot and on very hard seats, but it seems we were able to buy our way into a sleeper, which had a fan until Em busted it with her head. Got ripped off going from Lao Cai to Sapa, when the train stopped, but only about $1.50s worth each. Found a hotel really easily and settled and headed out for the night and ate at the markets and bought some souvineers and had a good rest. We were befriended by the girls, as I’ve mentioned previously, hired bikes for two days to get around out of Sapa. Went riding through villages which were amazing, where they still live off the land. The views were something else, goats, chickens, pigs and duscks roaming about. Kids riding water buffalo, Emma coming off her bike (She was OK luckily), hemp fields and water falls. Amazing, though I’m not sure the pictures do the place justice.

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