We arrive in the early morning, where we'll be met and taken up to Sapa, a small town perched on the mountainside opposite Mt. Fan Si Pan, Vietnam's highest peak. After breakfast at the hotel, we'll be driven along a scenic valley. We'll then drive to Ban Ho, a Tay ethnic minority village where we meet some of the members of the trekking management board and 'check-in' to the stilt-house to spend the night. For the rest of the morning, we can help with the owner's domestic tasks and find out about the Tay lifestyle. In the evening, you'll probably find the household with be eager to learn some simple English sentences from you!
We can join some of the locals in the village's communal house to listen to folk songs and watch the traditional dancing of Tay and Red Dzao people to music played on the community's vernacular musical instruments.
16 Jan 2009 2:15pm Sapa
So, everything went fine, we made the train. The sleeper train was pretty cool on experience basis alone. I bunked with James, Amiee, and Emily, which was a very good crew to chill with in such close quarters. We just hung out in the cabin, went to bed around midnight-1am. I go very little, shitty sleep on the train and was pretty cranky when we arrived at the station at 5:30am. From there we met our guide and drove an hour to Sapa, "freshened up" and napped at a hotel before breakfast. In the morning, and probably at night, it is much colder here than it's been anywhere else.
Wow...more later.
Looking back...
Yea, that morning was rough. Almost no sleep, freezing cold, it was colder in the hotel than it was outside (just like home), ate breakfast (which was so good!), and drove to the village. Lots of bumpy roads and praying that i wouldn't vomit, but it was a really good day. This place turned out to be one of my favorites.
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