Blogs from Fansipan, Lao Cai, Northwest, Vietnam, Asia

My first trip of 2015 happened to fall on the very first day of the year. I spent it taking on the challenge of conquering Indochina's rooftop, url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fanxipan+Mountain,+Sa+Pa+District,+Vietnam/@22.3046143,103.7771881,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x36cd447dbb9edf8d:0xb1e8f8dda6932eacMount Fansipan . I went with 2 other friends and the trip was put altogether by my friend at Exotic Voyages, a well-known tour company. On New Year's Eve, we were in the middle of the new Noi Bai - Lao Cai Highway, url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/05,+16,+29,+30,+33,+34,+39,+46,+57,+60,+Ph%E1%BA%A1m+H%C3%B9ng,+T%E1%BB%AB+Li%C3%AAm,+H%C3%A0+N%E1%BB%99i,+Vietnam/th%E1%BB%8B+tr%E1%BA%A5n+Sa+Pa,+Lao+Cai,+Vietnam/@21.8958136,104.6566859,9z/data=!4m13!4m1... read more

After making the accent to the final base camp on Fansipan, Vietnam's highest peak rising dramatically over Sa Pa, through a trail covered by a thick blanket of mist, shrouding the lush green trees and rocky mud flowing mountain streams with an errie "Blair Witch"/"Lord Of The Rings" veneer, I find myself shivering in the cold... A bare unforgiving wooden floor "supporting" my aching back, with nothing more than a few layers, a wafer thin sleeping bag and a few shots of rice wine inside me to keep me warm, monsoon rain hammers down relentlessly on the roof above as mice scamper past my head in the pitch black... The simple fact is that the night is utterly miserable... No amount of retrospective positive "New Labour" spin could ever distort my memory from the fact that ... read more

Đã lâu nay mới trở lại với Sapa, thành phố trong sương vẫn mây bay, sương mờ và những con người lam lũ, nhưng phố xá thì thất vọng vô cùng. lại cái môtip nhà ống 3m... chán như con gián!... read more

Halloechen-wir leben. Und das ist diesmal nicht ganz selbstverstaendlich...kein Inselgechille, jungelgehupfe oder Huetten ohne strom haben diesmal zur blogverzoegerung gefuehrt, sondern pure angst... Naja gut mittlerweile sieht alles schon wieder besser aus. Alsoooo Naddl hatte eines schoenen ( unausgeschlafenen, verkaterten) morgens das Beduerfnis mal wieder " an ihre Grenzen zu gehen" und beschloss den hoechsten Berg vietnams zu besteigen, und zwar nicht einfach so touri style sondern der schnelle trip, 2 tage aufi und abi...Conny fand die idee der grenzueberschreitung auch nicht ganz schlecht , aber wollte das dann doch dem vom letzten trek angeschwollenen kniechen nicht antun und beschloss es auf eine andere weise anzugehen...im Nachhinein definitiv auch mutig, wie sich herausstellte, denn ihr trip behinhaltet bergkrankenhaeuser, nachtzugfahrten bei 40 fieber und eine woche i... read more