Lacey:
For our first adventure we traveled to Sapa, which is in northern Vietnam. It is a beautiful, breath-taking place with huge mountains and terraces that are constantly entertaining your eyes. We took an overnight bus that got us there with enough time to grab some breakfast and be off on our trek. Almost immediately after taking off, we were surrounded by hill tribe villagers that ran to us...wanting us to buy their goods, or asking us to remember them, our friend, when we get to their village, so we can buy their stuff there.
The night prior Lance and I bought some new trekking shoes...which proved to be a bad idea! We soon felt blisters and it made it a painful next couple hour hike. After stopping for lunch and a couple more hours of hiking, we made it to our hill tribe village where we were to get supper and a nights rest. We finally got to sit down and enjoy the company of our trekking partners...a couple people from Denmark, a hilarious French guy, a lovely German girl and a man from India.
Some hillside farming......
Some old hill tribe ladies helping Lance down a slippery slope!
I made a comment to the French guy, saying that I heard that French people hate Americans...he responded by saying, "We only hate Bush!" To that I responded, so do we! Over the next couple hours we got fed a glorious meal and enjoyed many laughs over card games. Some games we taught everyone and some were taught by some young, local Vietnamese! The one game, the loser got charcoal rubbed on their face by the winner of the round!
Many of the hilltribe village ladies carried babies on their back for the whole trek!
A small boy taking the buffalo out for a snack!
The next day we trekked a few more hours, which was much more intense and steep. Finally we got back and could rest our blistery feet and sore bodies! The following day we thoroughly enjoyed renting motorbikes and riding through the curves between the gigantic mountains and again, enjoying the lovely scenery.
Roasted dog head anyone?
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