We survived the night train. We shared our cabin with two young ladies from Singapore. Very nice and perfect English. I took a sleeping gpill and slept quite well. Bruce is too long for the bed, so he do not sleep well.
Complimentary bananas, water, toothbrush and paste.
Our tour guide was waiting for us. It was about a one hour windy road trip to Sapa. He dropped us off at a hotel for breakfast and time to shower and change. Very foggy but now the sun is peeking out.
All of these guys are holding signs with people's names on them....
It just so happens that in a village 5 km away there is the largest spring festival happening today. So we will walk there and check it out. The car, which is a large minibus, will pick us up. Great photo opportunity.
The Black Hmong people make fabric using indigo dye from the indigo plant. Needs to be set, their hands are stained blue
Another 3 km to go which will make 5 km
How cute is that
View from above, foggy still
Puppies 20 days old- eyes now open yet
You can see the flooded terraced fields
They cost about $2000 each
They call this a swan - part Turkey, part goose
Walking to the festival all dressed in new clothes
Roasting chickens with honey and sesame seeds
Oh ya, big boom box on bike- wonder if it is a chick magnet
First thing we see- half a horse. It is a hot pot restaurant, the carcass proves they are serving 100% horse meat... Yucky
They grease a bamboo pole and put it across the water. If you can make it across you get candy
After visiting the festival people buy a lucky duck egg. They are pink and will bring you luck for the year ahead. Our guide Dinh bought us each one.
We checked into our hotel
I worked on my blog while Bruce went for a 90 min massage. He came home and we played Scrabble.
We got ready to go out for dinner. We went to a place I found on the Internet called Le Grecko.
It had homemade plum and apple wine on the menu. We tried it for $40 000 done, half the price as the commercial one. Not bad, a little too sweet, but drinkable.
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