Saturday, February 26, 2011

Sapa, The love Valley

Take a luxurious train from Hanoi, the capital to LaoCai station. The complete package for 2 days may cost not more then 90$ depending on the tour you book. The sinh cafe tour group can be one of your good choice for the trip but same time you should mistake in recognizing the correct SinhCafe group. There are many other tour group which are not original sinh cafe. All tour group are located near hoam kiem lake. A pickup will be provided from your hotel which will drop you to Ga Hanoi(hanoi railway station). 9pm the train will start which will drop you to LaoCai station in morning 6:30AM. A minibus will be ready for you to take you to Sapa from there which may take 1 more hour. You can checkin in Hotel and have breakfast. Checkout time is 11AM for all hotels. 



Basically a beautiful hill station and climate is the main thing to enjoy here. Although there are some tourist spots and Villages around which may be interesting fi you like to study new culture and living style. Black Hmong tribe of CatCat and Sin chai villages can be included in tour program. 

Trekking to these villages is really a fun and luckily if you get a little drizzling. If you have planned such that you land on saturday you will be lucky to enjoy the local culture in night called "love market". Choosing groom and bride is the main purpose of this market. 
The naother side of SAPA have tay and Dzay tribes in ta van and la cai village. 

Night is very beautiful with night markets and pubs and restaurants serving delicacies of world including indian restaurants. the church is standing in the middle of city and around it is spread you may call as walking street with all tourists enjoying the market and new delicacies. 

People here are more comfortable in english then in Hanoi, with friendly behavior and giving you all comforts to make your stay comfortable in SAPA.



2 comments:

  1. It's really nice to read about Vietnam through the eyes of a foreigner.Hope u have more and more interesting trips in my country.

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  2. Hi, I'm a Vietnamese girl. Your blog impressed me much. I love traveling and love those beautiful landscapes in my country so that I always appreciate everyone who has nice viewpoints about Vietnamese scenes. It's really interesting to read entries about my hometown through the eyes of a foreigner. Thanks a lot for your good feelings about Vietnam, and hope that it's attractive enough for you to come back many times ^^.

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