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Hotel View83 viewsNot at all a bad view from where I would be staying in Sapa, at the Summit.
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Sapa Markets84 viewsCrowded and crazy, filled with Vietnamese and the minority cultures from the surrounding hills.
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Streets of Sapa78 viewsMaking our way to begin the trek.
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Sapa Town70 viewsCrowning the hills and rolling along with them.
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Minority Girl81 viewsThis little girl (named Baos) and others took us along the trails to her village.
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Stick Seller76 viewsAs we departed the path, this woman had some walking sticks on offer.
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Fog Buffalo79 viewsThese kids ride their water buffalo among the clouds.
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Rice Terraces81 viewsCoo and Mor, the two most outspoken of our group, walk along the rice terraces.
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Cloud Shroud79 viewsThe path wound its way through clouds and along the hills.
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Valley Below73 viewsWe were so high up it is hard to tell that all below is terraced.
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Clean Dean89 viewsNothing says rugged trek like a clean-shaven face and presents from the locals.
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Lao Chai80 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 Hill76 viewsNot a bad spot to live if you don't mind a lot of rain and cloud.
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Buffalo Ricefield83 viewsA villager moves his buffalo up the trail.
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Rolling Rice76 viewsThe hills are alive with the stuff.
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Admiring Sapa83 viewsI take a break from walking to watch the clouds go by.
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Other Admirers78 viewsAlthough I think they were looking at something on the trail ahead.
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Towering Terraces75 viewsSome of the rice hills were quite steep farming indeed.
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Feeding the Terraces76 viewsThe waterfall would doubtless fill these and many other terraces downstream.
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Bamboo Forest75 viewsA nice way to frame the photo, wouldn't you say?
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