Lao Chai and trecking around Sapa

Day 114
Sapa

In spite of bad weather we have decided to go on treck today. After the breakfast, jeep picked us up and drove to the start of the treck. Nice air con, eh? :-D


Fist views of Lao Chai village and its rice terraces...


And of course a bunch of Hmong woman following us and trying to sell whatever they can..


Sapa trecking team:


And Juli trying to explain that we will not buy anything...telling to Hmong people: " How about you buy from me?" :-D



It is not a high season to visit rice terraces in Sapa, but the view is nice anyway :-)








crossing the bridge..



We meet a group of Dzao, who were busy with their mobile phones....nice ethnic minorities :-D


We visited a Hmong house...which was really poor, nothing on the floor


children siting besides the fire which is done right in the ground hole, in the middle of the kitchen...yeah, this is the kitchen...


ok, back to the treck!




Next stop - lunch, at one of many "Home stay" places in Sapa. For those who don't know, "Home stay" is a local house, which offers to tourist an opportunity to stay over night and also eat local food, prepared by the host.

In the middle of nowhere, in Sapa, waiting for lunch, we were playing pool :-D


Basic lunch, bread, eggs, vegetables and some fruit.


Later on we stopped in the middle of the way, at some village and had a beer, while Hmong women were assaulting me to buy stuff :-D


going up the hill, more rice terraces around...






And the women, would not leave us alone :-D


Next stop, at one of Home stays, Tay family and the head of the family aparently was friend of our guide. We ended up drinking "happy water", which was home made alcohol, with strong taste.


After couple of shots, our host, started to sing "Dragostea din Tei", was really funny haha




After this "happy break", we kept trecking between rice fields...















Hmong people are everywhere, this one from the picture, we met in the middle of the treck :-D



Bamboo forest...


another bridge..

A picture with our guide

The treck was finished and we got back to the hotel. In total we did around 20 km and were pretty exhausted.