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Bus to Sapa from Lao Cai
18 people + 14 seater mini-van + 1 sick passanger = bad traveling experience Sa Pa
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Steve SarahJune 4th 2007
S&S After a great overnight train ride up from Hanoi, we spent two days exploring Sa Pa in the north of Vietnam. This little mountain town is surrounded by hill tribe villages and loads of rice paddies. The villages themselves are fairly close to each other (a few kms apart), but the different ethnic groups all have their own clothing, traditions and very distinct languages which is surprising. Further, they don't inter-marry and there is clear village rivalry between groups. Normally girls get married here around 15 years old, and we saw tons of young girls carting around babies. We met a woman who is also 28 and has 3 children, the eldest of which is 12 and she was amazed we didn't have any kids yet. On Saturday night there was the weekly "love-market" in town, where boys and girls ages 14-16 meet up in their finest attire and dance for each other, looking for a mate. The highlight of the trip was a 12km trek yesterday through three different villages and met Ku, our new hill tribe mum. We are back in Hanoi now and off for a Halong Bay cruise tomorrow.
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Mum (Linda)
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Good Night Viet Nam
I am sure you are very tired in the night after all that trekking. I can just imagine that bus trip and get a very deep nauseated feeling. Looks like a beautiful area to visit but the heat and smells must be something else Love Mum