Sapa

Sapa is a small mountain town in North Western Vietnam. Myself and Christina (Kiwi girl I met in Vientiane airport and who traveled with me for a week or so) booked a thrre day trip there from Hanoi. It involved a 10 hour train journey but it was on a sleeper train that was actually pretty comfortable. Sapa turned out to be proper cold – hence the ever-present hoody. Like alot of Vietnam, there’s paddy fields everywhere. Unlike much of Vietnam though, the ones here are on terraces. We arrived after the harvest so they were all pretty bare.

There were loads of other groups doing the same as we were. This picture was taken during our lunch stop. Another group that arrived after us had to endure the sales pitches of about a dozen locals while trying to eat.


We spent the first night in one of the hilltop villages. We were constantly being pestered to buy something – hats, bracelets, blankets. This pic is of Julie (French Canadian) and Christina trying to have breakfast while two local kids try to sell their wares.


Water-buffalo roam the paddy fields looking for some grub. I thought this guy looked particularly photogenic.


This is the john at the lunch-stop. Simple, yet effective.