Greetings to all avid Team 1 followers! We are now in Sapa, preparing for our main trek, a prospect that, obviously, fills each and every one of us with glee. As previously explained, we are all now very used to being pointed, stared or even laughed at. It did however come as a slight shock when people actually woke up their friends on a recent overnight train to point out the big group of Western girls, and to have a good laugh! The fact that we were wearing our bergens and our day sacs (a stunning look, labelled the 'pregnant tortoise') probably didn't help matters! It came, therefore, as a pleasant change, when we boarded our train last night to make our way to Sapa. We had opted for 'hard sleepers', meaning that between the 18 of us, we had three cabins,
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