<!-- @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...

30 July: Sapa Another day of rain, unfortunately we still had a lot of admin to do. Our clothes, poncho's, shoes and bags were all drenched in mud. We spent the morning washing and hanging everything out to dry, we weren't the only ones, the balcony was practically full of shoes and tops hung out to dry. After which we went down for breakfast at the market. After having constant troubles with our internet and rather trying to work at the hotels computers...

29 July: Sapa At last a morning where we could sleep late! We woke up just before 08h00, finished up and headed down to the family and our guide. We were offered coffee before breakfast came, its a 15% coffee, 55% sugar, 30% creamer mix, sweet but nice. Breakfast was again pancakes with syrup and banana's, they gave us ample and we couldn't even finish everything. After breakfast we put on our shoes and we headed off to the xxx village in the mountains. W...