After checking in I grabbed a quick shower and met up with Trent, one of the Aussies. We went to get some breakfast and talked about what we wanted to do in Sapa. We both had the same idea so after breakfast we did a 12k trek up the mountain-side. Women wearing tribal clothes followed us for ages trying to sell us stuff. I'd heard about them from people we met at Halong bay. So I went down the route of no English. Trent and I were speaking in English but she wasn't sure. We came back and bumped into a couple of other people from the bus, walked around the city and went for lunch. After that we walked around some gardens. They were pretty steep and the views from the top were amazing.
I tried to book my bus for the next day at the hotel, but the guy in reception couldn't get through. I had one of the earliest nights of the trip, I was in bed for 8.
We'd arranged to meet up the next morning for breakfast. After more trouble trying to book the bus from different hotels we stumbled across the tourist information centre. They managed to make some phone calls and get me on a bus. While in the office Halvert walked in (who we met in the middle of Cambodia). He'd bought a motorbike in the south and had driven 1600 miles to the north. It sounded pretty dangerous, he fell off twice and after the trip his bike was worthless. Anyway I didn't have any Laos Kip so I got some dollars exchanged just in case.
Walking to hire a bike another tribal woman started bugging us saying she'd follow us forever if we didn't buy anything from her. To the amusement of everybody else I told her if she followed me I'd bury her in the mountains, she mustn't of understood because she kept following us. We decided to all hire a bike and went exploring around the mountains, there were some amazing views. After dropping the bike off we went for a coffee and some food. Soon after I said goodbye to the Aussies and waited for the bus in the hotel.