We were told to meet the Sapa tour guide at the entrance of train station. Mr.Duong brought us to the Chau Long Sapa hotel to refresh.
Later on, he explained to us about our journey from Sapa town to Lao Chai, then Tavan home stay which required 5 hours of trekking.
had a western style breakfast before starting our trekking.
After feeding, it's ready to go!
At Sapa town, there were many Black Hmong (Black Cat) following the tourists. They just want you to buy their souvenirs. So, their strategies were making friends with the tourist first.
Duong was worried that PeiChi & HuiYing's shoes because they didn't brought their sport shoes but slippers. Finally Duong recommended them to rent boots from the shoe shops for a day. The boots are good for crossing river.
Awesome greenaries of the paddy fields in Sapa.
Passed by the petrol add-on machine from shops.
The local people in Sapa.
The Black Hmong who came out for selling, were well trained, speaking only the particular phrases, eg: What is your name? where are you from? how many bro/sis do you have? I followed you, you buy from me? you take photo, you buy from me...... They kept following us from Sapa town until Lao Chai's picnic lunch. Duong taught us how to said 'I don't want to buy, TQ.' with the tribe's language which sounds like this 'Chi Zuat All Chiarl'.
Along the path, the Black Hmong picked up the leaves/grass around them and built us many kind of shapes from the leaves, like horse, love shape, etc.
We had our lunch over the bridge, picnic beside a local restaurant.
After lunch, we continued for more walks along the dirt path.
Our home stay destination was getting nearer & nearer......
Couldn't stop snapping photos along the path.
So many little animals, so natural, so beautiful.
It was not cold during the summer in Sapa.
The rice terraces paddy field.
Yes, we'd reached the Tavan village.
Rest & have cups of tea.
Our host (Soi) asked her hubby (Sao) to cook us some fries, then she brought us to the river nearby for fun.
The river was freezing cold. It's just nice to put our tiring legs into the river.
Back for tea time, Soi prepared us fries.
Night party of the village began. Soi cooked us her local dishes and invited us to drink their rice wine.
More and more villages & tourists nearby came over to join in the fun. We were almost got drunken, it's hard to stand up straight at the end.
The foreign tourists spoke very good mandarin, they were working in Shanghai almost 8 months and got travel to asia countries. One of the vietnamese kept repeating this phrase to get close with everybody - '你好，我好。大家一起吃个包。'. What a joyful night, luckily we've chosen home stay, rather than hotel.Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7
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