Day 165 (Tue 19 Dec) - Sapa

Had a good nights sleep, although Jo suffered a bit from too much rice wine the night before.

When we got up the family were tucking into a feast, similar to the night before.

Lan told us to wait outside whilst she prepared our breakfast. Shortly afterwards she came out with a mountain of pancakes and a plate of bananas. We struggled through but Lan was not impressed by our efforts.

We said our goodbyes to the family and headed off through the village and over the rice fields.

Jo had a slight problem with her balance that morning, needless to say to ended up in the rice fields on more than one occasion.

We stopped at a waterfall by a river to have a look at the scenery. Very beautiful ( [1], [2], [3] ). Crossed the river over a rickety footbridge and had lunch at a small building nearby.

After lunch we walked on for about an hour and a half and then got a jeep back to Sapa.

Jo had a quick shower and then we pottered round for a few hours waiting for our train. Whilst having a beer we spotted Julien; very soon we were all having a cosy drink.

Got on a crowded bus back to the train station where we eventually boarded the train after hanging round for about an hour.

We shared a cabin with a friendly Australian couple from Sydney.