Sa Pa Fansipan

Visit to fansipan today. It gets a lot of attention with Chinese visitors posing at every opportunity. It’s a huge complex and hosts a massive statue of a Buddha
To get to the top, you board a train / funicular, then a 20 minute cable car and the option to walk the last section instead of using another funicular. We had to walk the last section to the highest point, in Indochina a breath taking ( the air felt so thin) walk up. 600 steps to the summit. It felt like a lot more, the Garmin reliably tells me we covered 44 floors. There was an option to walk up the whole thing over two days glad we didn’t take that option. Gary jumped on a cable car without me So I was in a car full of young people from the Philippines. They were all chanting something that I joined in with. I am now one of their followers on facebook 😂Read more