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VIETNAM | Sat, 29 Apr 2017 | By tigerlillytravels | Views [760]
As I said in the last post, one of the first things we noticed about Sa Pa was the weather. When we arrived it was warm and sunny, when we headed out for some food about an hour later it was cold and cloudy. From the window of our room we could see the ... Read more >
Tags: amazing views, experience, hills, mountains, sapa, tigerlillytravels, travel, vietnam, walking. trekking
VIETNAM | Sat, 29 Apr 2017 | By tigerlillytravels | Views [555]
The bus was due at reception at 6:30am. We were downstairs around 6:25. The bus arrived about 7:00 😴 This journey was about 6-7 hours long (they could never be exact because it all depended how insane your driver was) we had paid more than usual for ... Read more >
Tags: bus journeys, clouds, cold weather, mainland, mountains, sapa, vietnam
VIETNAM | Mon, 8 Feb 2016 | By finally | Photo Gallery
Cette dernière semaine au Vietnam a été très intense en visites et aussi malheureusement très pluvieuse et froide. :-(
HANOI
Bien que nous ayons passé seulement 48 heures dans la capitale, nous avons pu voir beaucoup de choses grâce à notre Couchsurfing ...
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Tags: baie dhalong, corruption, dien bien phu, frontière, hanoi, laos, sapa, vietnam
VIETNAM | Thu, 25 Sep 2014 | By miguel_rubi | Views [593]
Finalmente visitamos uno de los pueblos más emblemáticos de todo Vietnam y el imprescindible del noroeste del país: Sapa. Aquí el clima es frío, la niebla matutina no te deja ver los alrededores y las mujeres de las ... Read more >
Tags: sapa
VIETNAM | Thu, 24 Apr 2014 | By johnsteel | Views [533] | Comments [1]
While travelling in Vietnam, there were often things that stood out in our memory:
Food - baby eels in Tavan village. (Homestay in a village near Sapa)
While relaxing and watching the incredible view of the setting sun, peaceful rice paddies, ... Read more >
Tags: crossing hanoi streets, hanoi, hmong, hoi an, sapa, vietnam
VIETNAM | Mon, 18 Nov 2013 | By rutha90 | Views [990]
Having had a fairly unexciting few days in Hanoi (which, by the way is lovely... I just didn't do anything) I headed to Sapa in the far north with a few of the same group I was with in Cambodia. We caught a sleeper train from Hanoi to Lao Cai, which ... Read more >
Tags: foggy, freezing, homestay, mud, rice terraces, sapa, vietnam
VIETNAM | Tue, 8 Oct 2013 | By travelinglotus | Views [542]
On Monday morning, we woke up to a knock on the door of our train cabin about 5am or so. We gathered our bags and got off at the Lao Cai station where we had a driver pick us up for the drive to Sapa town; about 45 minutes to an hour. The scenery ... Read more >
Tags: hmong, mountains, overnight train, sapa, trekking, vietnam
VIETNAM | Thu, 28 Mar 2013 | By gsewake | Views [722]
Its been a while since we posted, so here is a quick recap.
-Gillian
Sapa:
Sapa, in the hills of Northern Laos, was a retreat for French colonialists when the plains became too hot. We could see why they chose the spot. The beautiful views of ... Read more >
Tags: busy, food, hanoi, hmong, homestay, sapa, trekking, vietnam
VIETNAM | Sat, 16 Mar 2013 | By gsewake | Views [622]
Hello! We had such a good time at the Phong Nha Farmstay that we didn't get a chance to do many updates. Long story short: the caves are spectacular, the locals are charming, the countryside is beautiful, and many friends were made. ... Read more >
Tags: caves, cold, mountains, phong nha, sapa, vietnam
VIETNAM | Mon, 29 Sep 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [835] | Comments [3]
well aoife and i left hanoi on the goverment sleeper train to lao cai, and then to got a bus to sapa. the train was quite small. with our bags on our back we couldn't turn around in the hallway, so had to back up like a big truck. we finally figured ... Read more >
Tags: fab, sapa, sore legs, trekking
VIETNAM | Mon, 22 Sep 2008 | By katandstevie | Views [694] | Comments [2]
After a 10 hour arduous night train to the Sapa Mountains, in a tiny cabin with hard mattresses and 6 to a cabin(!), we were woken at 6am with a woman at our door shouting 'Coffee, coffee'! This was our cue to get up and get out of the train... Bleary ... Read more >
Tags: cat cat village, sapa, snake, tram ton pass
VIETNAM | Thu, 31 Jul 2008 | By jfernandes | Views [1893]
I booked on to two separate trips from Hanoi- what were recommended by several people as the must-sees of Vietnam - one trip was a cruise along Halong Bay, the second trip was a trek in Sapa. Halong Bay Cruise Halong Bay is in northeastern Vietnam.... Read more >
Tags: cruise, haong bay, kayaking, sapa, trek
VIETNAM | Wed, 30 Jul 2008 | By jfernandes | Views [1654]
From Hue, on to Hanoi, which is very similar to Ho Chi Minh/Saigon in the south of Vietnam. That is not to say that there are no differences however. I would say that Hanoi has certainly made more of an effort not to erode the precious green spaces ... Read more >
Tags: cruise, halong bay, hanoi, sapa, trek
CHINA | Sat, 17 May 2008 | By magdef | Views [2331] | Comments [1]
North Vietnam is nothing like I expected it to be. Perhaps it is only that Sapa (a small village known for its good trekking and mountain tribe women dressed in traditional clothing and selling hand made crafts) is the exception to the rule for this ... Read more >
Tags: sapa, vietnam