Sapa, Laocai, Vietnam Part 1

So I am not kidding about the gazillion loads of photos and it is only day 2. So we stepped on our overnight train!

Tips for Backpackers: Always travel on overnight trains/bus to save one night's accommodation and reach your destination in bright light! Bring sleeping bags. (Little comfort for you)

chaocheebye faces about a long train ride

So we reached Laocai at about 5am, it was so freaking cold. It was at least 10 degrees. No kidding. It was our mistake ok my mistake that it was so cold, and that we are not prepared for the weather! I researched and it was supposed to be cooling, not chilling! So all of us had our jackets (thank god) and Julyn had her socks as mittens! It was freezing and I thought my goosebumps wouldnt stop bumping and my nipples.. I dont even want to go there.

FYI, it was summer. I cannot even imagine winter though I read there would be snow!

So it is only Laocai, we had to hitch another bus ride for an hour or two to reach Sapa Valley. (koonz)

Mount Fansipan

So we reached our Hotel, Royal Hotel. Yes it is a hotel! (Charlotte, scream!) It cost us USD 14 per room (double room), so it cost me about USD 7 for one night! It was really cool and we were very very excited and I started calling mother and complaining the coldness! My god and we were omg so famished! We proceeded on to pho after booking our treks immediately!

Part of Sapa from Hotel view


Not bad for USD 7

Royal Hotel: royallhotel_sapa@yahoo.com, USD 7 per head per night

Ugly face to balance up the beauty.

The weather is rather misty and foggy. And little did we know, that sun has yet to rise. Kidding me, it was like 8ish and the sun is still not up. I see that something else is lazier than spearmints.

There! Sunrise above up. We look like angels sent from above!



State of clarity

So the sunrise was like rather quick and everything was bursting into light!

We started our trek up to near Mt. Fansipan which is the highest peak in Sapa. Currently treks are not very available because they are like, making roads to make it more accessible, so they say, or maybe want to cheat our money and bring us somewhere else. We had a personal tour guide, Moon! We got on the van (oh god, can you say bumpy ?) and hitched for another 2/3/4 hours. Cant remember, lost trek(HAHA TRACK I MEANT) it was very very far. We drove back to Laocai.

Catching moments

4 very cold losers


Water buffalo



Wet rice cultivation


Sexy sow


Civilisation Kampung


Moon, our tour guide ( The one on the left, duh)


Wedding

Sidenote: According to Moon, these women are borrowing big pots, chairs, utensils whatever they need for a big wedding coming up! So everyone's invited I guess.

Boy #1



Boy #2



Mud houses



Duckies on the sides

It is super cute to see ducks waddling by the side as you stroll down the road. Imagine it in singapore! Singapore will be jammed because people like me always stop and coo them for at least 5minutes.

Super old skool, than my home pounder


Attempting to look survival-ish.


I guess not.




Gorgeous kids.


Never burn your bridges


Acting all Pisa



Vietnam for you



Camwhores

So Moon bought us somewhere further into the village and we had to walk this gigantic drain which was very thrilling because it seemed like you are going to fall and you can never return. Very exciting, I kept thinking that spearmints would never able to do it. It looks easy sure, it always looks easy!

5feet above

Sidenote: On the left is the paddy field, on the right is the super muddy track which you will probably slip and die or end up in like quick mud (quick sand?) lol.

Do or die


Conquered!

Stupid face

So it got a little warm with all the actions and all... So what happened was.. that I had a little too much water and I really needed to pee. I really needed to pee so badly, its like ultra distended and it's like threatening to flow out of my meatus, it is already at the tip! It was that urgent! If i laughed a little, this is stress incontinence!

So Moon gave me a umbrella. All of us figured where is the best for me to "do it". Hello jungle anyhow lah! BUT NO, Jungle got immigrants. So over here, they have men popping out and like families staring at you. Zz.

Well, we decided to make use of the umbrella..

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Ok I have to do.

Ok this is the first and last time my fat ass would be up on this site. STUPID JASMINE

The ecstasy flowing.

Sidenote: Moon was laughing. And so were the rest. Why you all laugh at me?YOU ALL NO NEED TO PEE MEH!

Four of us with great padi fields

A long winding road

Eat sugarcane this way!

So we head back to that one of Laocai's village's town and got ourselves some sugarcane! It was very sweet and as juicy as I am. Unglam but good. Who cares about glamness!! But it is damn shiok, Singapore can do it or not?

So we headed back to Sapa and sleeping on the way back. Say bumpy again. We were rather knocked out after the train ride especially. But we were hungry! We went bingeing!

Snacks

My god, Kao lat forever!



Toiletmates

So we walked around Sapa town and checked out this Baguette & Chocolat! This is guesthouse cum restaurant opened to sponsor bakeries students to do their placement here!

After dinner... we were freezing outside.

So we are back to hotel, freezing and climbing into our sleeping bags. Yes we had our sleeping bags and blankets on. It reached 8 degrees in the night and we were shaking. So Jasmine and I decided to share one bed so that we can warm up each other. It was really cold.

So this is actually Sapa.

Part 1.

I am not lying, still got Part 2.