Things we liked about Vietnam:
- Sapa and Halong Bay, were probably the most impressive sights in Vietnam!
- Phu Quoc beaches and sea food - fantastic!
- Vietnam so far was the cheapest country in South East Asia. We spent average of 36 euros/day/both of us including accomodation, food, transport, tours and beers!! :-D
Things we did not like about Vietnam:
- People are terrible in Vietnam! Everywhere you go, any trip you take, they always try to cheat you, behave agressively, annoy you or just try to steal from you. It is worse then in any country in South East Asia, including Thailand (which is not far away, but still heaven comparing to Vietnam)
In conclusion - the country is beautiful and cheap, but people make it too difficult and in the end you get too much tired of making an effort every single day!!!
Day 116
Sapa – Dien Bien Phu
At 7 am we came to the agency and had some breakfast in one of the local bars, while waiting for pick up.
As usual, pick up came 2 hours later, besides, it was a small mini van, packed with people, bags, smelly stuff and even puppies (which were in the box next to mine and were literaly pissing on my bagpack).
Besides of locals puking in the bags (due to the curves) and smelly laggage, the views actually were pretty nice :-D
In the middle of the road, mini van stoped due to some technical problems, and Juli with other men had to push...funny!
On the road again...
The driver finally has decided to change battery...
After the change, driving again..
In the evening, after the whole day (9 hours) in the mini van, we arrived to Dien Bien Phu (and it was a bus station!). We picked fist hotel we saw, in front of the station and then bought tickets to Muong Khoa, fist town in Laos.
The sunset and rice fields were really beautiful...it was the only beautiful thing in this town :-D
Tomorrow we have to catch the bus at 5.30 in the morning, terrible!!! :-D
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.
