Sapa 3
Taken a break from tramping around mountains and paddyfields and a chance to clean out footwear after too many knee deep falls into the paddy – very smelly ones at that ! – lucky I bought new shoes in Hanoi, well christened now and can probably still smell them in Hanoi. Last night mid autumn festival and had the school children carting floats around the place and concerts, from the looks of it in celebration of Uncle Ho ( I would hazard a guess more by the local Viet population than the hilltribes ).
Today market day and the locals put on their Sunday best and pretty to the see the local ethnic kids in their colourful outfits. There are much bigger and more famous markets in the area but out of laziness didn’t make it further afield. Instead been helping the local kids with their emails and hopefully some happy faces if they check their bank accounts where well wishes sent money.
If the weather stays good hope to hire a motorbike/driver tomorrow and head across the mountains but I gather some very rough roads and given the rains in August could be fun.
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