Sapa

We spent the night on the train arriving in Ga Loa Cai at 6am. We travelled to Sapa by mini bus, had breakfast then started our hike. We were a bit disappointed to start with as it was all downhill on a road but wasn’t long before it was more like we expected and after lunch was really tough uphill. We arrived at the homestay which looked great. There are lots of others staying here - from Israel, Colombia, Germany about 15 in total. We have a choice of hiking 20 or 12 kms tomorrow and initially thought 20 but after this arvo we are leaning towards 12!
We had dinner which was prepared by many family members then everyone was basically force fed happy water, their name for rice wine. A local musician then performed for us local instruments and also taught us some songs.
Even though we had our own room, the walls were not to the ceiling so not the best nights sleep!!Read more