<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 4 August: Kunming We had decided last night to sleep a little late after the previous days travels. Wong came to our room exactly on time, we headed out, Wong talked to the receptionist to ensure we could stay another night. He also told us he's found someone that could give a reason for the 'no foreigner' rule - there had been riots in the country a few weeks earlier and the governme...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 3 August: Kunming, China We were up early, sharing the remains of the watermelon and a cup of coffee between the two of us. Finished and bags in the foyer we waited for the mini van to collect us. It was already 07h00 and we wanted to get to the boarder as soon as possible to catch the first bus destined for Kunming, which was leaving at 09h45. The receptionist had called a mini van ea...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 2 August: SaPa Our luck was in, the sun was shining again! We got up and headed to a breakfast of Pho Bo at the market. Afterwards it was time for some physical exercise, we walked down the valley to Cat Cat Village. The walk took about 30 minutes down hill, before we came to the entrance gate and paid the fees. The village was very touristy, mostly Vietnamese tourists. All along the s...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 1 August: SaPa Another late morning, we got up and headed out for breakfast. Leanne needed a break from the soups, rice and noodles so we went looking for a restaurant where we could get cereal. Cereal is one of those products one rarely finds, mostly they see cereal as only for babies and hence it is only baby cereal that they stock at shops. The first restaurant we found was a French...

31 July: Sapa It had rained the whole night, so we slept late without knowing it. We got up at around 09h00, finished up and with all our things we intended to post headed for breakfast at the usual place, with the usual, Pho Bo. After breakfast we walked around town trying to find the post office. When we found it at last, we needed to take inventory of everything, then were told we couldn't post back our data CD's containing our photos! In the end we just...