It's a different world.
December 19th 2006 The 12 hour train ride from Hanoi to Sapa was great. A 2nd class, soft sleeper train. We board at night and wake up the next morning in another city......Actually in Sa Pa's case it feels like a different country, a whole world away from Vietnam.
Of course being in Asia nothing is as simple as it seems. Getting off the train we were stopped by some officials asking for our ticket. I left it on th
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