Sapa

June 9

We caught the overnight train from Hanoi to Sapa, North West Vietnam, last night -arrived at 7am this morning. 10 hour trip (left at 10pm last night) - comfy beds. Although neither of us slept that well, as every now & then the carriages would jolt around.

Sapa has very beautiful scenery of mountains surrounded by mist & deep valleys with terraces of rice fields disappering into the fog. Very different to any of the other scenery we've seen on our travels.

We've also seen a few of the local hilltribe members around the town - who dress in beautiful hand embroided outfits.
Tomorrow we are going on a 13km walk to see 2 of the local hilltribes - lunch is provided, we then travel back to our motel by jeep. SO that will be good fun. Then catch night train back to Hanoi & arrive at 6am on Sun 11th.

Tonight we're planning to go to one of the local pub's to watch the World Cup Soccer Opening Ceremony. Soccer is very popular in Asia - a lot of buzz & advertising surrounding World Cup.