SAPA After a not too bad sleep on the overnight sleeper train, we arrived an hour and a half late (6:30am!) in Lao Cai train station. A minibus was waiting to take us to our hotel in Sapa, and the 1.5 hour journey went by pretty quickly as we dozed to catch up on some sleep. As we pulled up to the entrance of the hotel, there were about 30 girls/women from the black hmong tribe all waiting to greet us. They were all chatting to us as we made our way to the hotel door.When we got to the front desk, we were told we couldn’t check into our rooms till 11, and that we would be going on a 3 hour trek to Cat Cat village. We were put in groups of about 6,
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