We arrived in Sa pa by bus from Nihn Bin, however this time without a sleeping bus rather a sitting bus, surprisingly we accomplished some serious Z's. As we were leaving Nihn Bin the owner told us we would be traveling with a solo back packer. he was German, we dubbed him Chino. He was very illusive as we only managed to capture one photo of him, but he proved a good traveling partner. We had previously been told that Sa pa was the way to see the real Vietnam, so we had high expectations. To an extent we were let down as we found it very touristy, this was partly due to the fact we had just been on a three day tour where we had only seen three other westerners. We had a nice
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