Taken from a latter to a friend:
we're writing to you from Hanoi - which is Vietnam's big city in the north 6.5 mil. people (wow),
probably 6.4 has a motorbike, what makes the streets here crazy - and crossing the street mission (- impossible).
we've been to Sapa which is a small town near the Chinese border, it took us 12 h. by bus to get there - the buses the Vietnamese people use for these long ride are 'sleeping buses' or in short - 'sleeper'.Each person gets an almost laying down seat and a blanket, you have to take off your shoes before getting into the bus, so it means that everybody is in socks, but you get used to the smell - and on the way there we slept quiet well.
Sapa is wonderful, beautiful and unique. the most magical rice fields terraces picture are from there.
we we're a bit disappointed to get there when it was extremely foggy and misty.
but when we traveled to the near villages to see the local tribes (a descent of a couple hundred meters) we were under the clouds that surrounded Sapa, and the vision changed from good to very good as time past and the sun came out.
we enjoyed trekking by ourselves to faraway villages, away from the other tourists and "commercial villages".
this we did the first day, the second day we took a guide (tribe woman) that explained about many interesting facts about the nearby tribes and took us through a muddy trail up and down the mountains and villages.
of-course every tribe has it's own clothing and language, and different funny hat.
When we started the Trail ~10 village women stocked us and tried to sell us souvenirs.
they followed us for hours.
at the beginning it was annoying, but when we got to the muddy adventures part they became helpful saved Reut from dipping in mud
(Reut: "and all the other women in the tour as well!")
Got great picture to prove it also.
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