Sapa
February 25th 2009 In an effort to complete my rail journey through Vietnam, I boarded one more over night train to Lao Cai. Pulling up three miles from the Chinese border was pretty much as far as I could go. Sapa is a big tourist spot due to it's location in the Tonkinese Alps, the village reminds one of a small French chateau. Of course there is no snow, but the terraced rice fields are still view worthy. In
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