Date: 2nd July 2011

Place: Sapa

Weather: cloudy again with a bit of rain

Zi made us a great breakfast of banana pancakes today. We then had the choice of whether or not we wanted to go the really muddy way or the road way. Since I hadn't been able to handle the mud from the day before without falling everywhere I decided to take the road way.

It was an easy walk and we finished at the stop we were having lunch. The worst part of the walk was a rickety bridge over a really fast river. Zi and Bong kept jumping on it so it rocked everywhere! I was so thankful to be on the other side of it when I got there. Some people from our group paid to go over another bridge to see another tribe but I decided to wait behind because I couldn't be bothered with them trying to sell us stuff.

Whilst we waited we had loads of huge butterflies flying around us. One landed on me and I freaked as usual but I managed to get a good picture of one on Carms shoulder. We saw the group that had gone the muddy way come down a really steep hill next to us and they said they had had mud all the way up to their knees.

When lunch was finished we only had to walk back to the top of the hill where a minibus would take us back to Sapa Town. Half way up the hill though the bottom of my trainer came off. I was so lucky it only happened then!

Back in Sapa Town most people in our group were checking out and going on the night train back but our trip had been down backwards because there wasn't enough room in the hotel for us the first night. We were given a really nice room where I did a load of washing and then chilled out for a while watching TV.

After dinner we met the Irish girls and went out to have a drink. It was really cold out and raining which made it worse. Everyone was in their winter clothes but I didn't have anything like that so was in a little summery dress, I got some looks! We ended up in an English style pub where the girls all had a beer each. There wasn't much to do after that though so we just went back to the room and ended up watching Nightmare on Elm Street.