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Hotel View93 viewsNot at all a bad view from where I would be staying in Sapa, at the Summit.
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Sapa Markets92 viewsCrowded and crazy, filled with Vietnamese and the minority cultures from the surrounding hills.
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Streets of Sapa88 viewsMaking our way to begin the trek.
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Sapa Town79 viewsCrowning the hills and rolling along with them.
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Minority Girl90 viewsThis little girl (named Baos) and others took us along the trails to her village.
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Stick Seller82 viewsAs we departed the path, this woman had some walking sticks on offer.
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Fog Buffalo90 viewsThese kids ride their water buffalo among the clouds.
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Rice Terraces89 viewsCoo and Mor, the two most outspoken of our group, walk along the rice terraces.
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Cloud Shroud87 viewsThe path wound its way through clouds and along the hills.
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Valley Below80 viewsWe were so high up it is hard to tell that all below is terraced.
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Clean Dean98 viewsNothing says rugged trek like a clean-shaven face and presents from the locals.
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Lao Chai89 viewsThe H'Mong people leading us to their village of Lao Chai below. The big building is their school.
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View to a Hill83 viewsNot a bad spot to live if you don't mind a lot of rain and cloud.
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Buffalo Ricefield94 viewsA villager moves his buffalo up the trail.
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Rolling Rice82 viewsThe hills are alive with the stuff.
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Admiring Sapa93 viewsI take a break from walking to watch the clouds go by.
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Other Admirers89 viewsAlthough I think they were looking at something on the trail ahead.
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Towering Terraces82 viewsSome of the rice hills were quite steep farming indeed.
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Feeding the Terraces84 viewsThe waterfall would doubtless fill these and many other terraces downstream.
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Bamboo Forest84 viewsA nice way to frame the photo, wouldn't you say?
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