Sapa

The town of Sapa is in the North West corner of Vietnam, about a 9 hour train ride from Hanoi....yikes. Anyway, once you get past the train ride, Sapa was awesome. With some 50 groups of ethnic minorities in Veitnam there is no other way to describe the experience other than somewhat like walking through an issue of National Geographic.

Erin buying a basket from one of the ladies at the local market. The lady was a member of the Red Zhou minority group.
More local people walking around the market.

All the hills are cut into terraces for rice farming. Its hard to take a picture that could do justice to the scenery. Trust me, google "Sapa terraced hills" and you will get a lot better pictures that we could post...although Erin and I probably won't be in those.

We also walked through some Black Hmong (another ethnic group) villages to see how people lived. Its best described as very basic.

All the Black Hmong kids running around...they were a fan of me. Although I'm fairly certain they just wanted me to buy something.