4pm saw us back from Halong Bay and in Hanoi leaving just enough time for us time for a quick warm up, freshen up and repack before heading for the train station to catch the somewhat rickety yet comfy over night train to Sapa, way up north nearing the Chinese boarder. Once we’d prized our way through the barrage of helmeted scooter taxi drivers congesting the station exit we hopped on a bus that would wind us all the way up the mountains to the quaint town of Sapa. “Hello, Where you from?, What’s your name?, You buy from me?”…..welcome to Sapa. As if being greeted by a barrage of scooter taxi hustlers wasn’t enough we had to deal with an onslaught of local Sapa ladies, all dressed in traditional attire, eagerly trying to peddle their
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