Y Lin Ho, Lao Chai, and Sapa Market Thursday morning arrived and it was a beautiful sunny day. At 9:00 Sece (sp?) showed up for our tour. The driver was none other than Tommy’s brother. Sece is “White” Hmong, and was born and raised in Y Lin Ho. Sapa is the largest city she’s been […]
Sapa
Fansipan
We woke up Wednesday morning, looked out the window, and saw something we hadn’t seen in it seems like weeks – blue sky. Shocking as it was, we decided to seize the day and check out Fansipan. Fansipan is the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. Hundreds of years ago, monks built a series of pagodas […]
Sapa Comedy of Errors
We went to bed Sunday night planning on getting up early Tuesday to head off to Sapa in the Northwest mountains of Vietnam. The Women’s Museum of Vietnam was slated for a visit “tomorrow.” At 5:00 a.m. Ellen woke me with the statement “I think we may go to Sapa this morning!” We checked our […]
Sapa Postcard From Ellen
Prologue Well, we are coming up on 4 months! What’s hard is burnout from making decisions! We are taking more days off, often due to colds, and letting others help plan and set up our activities. We actually don’t travel, as in pack up and move rooms that often. Maybe every 3 days at most. […]