Sunday, May 3, 2009

"BUY FROM MEEEEE"...10 FAVES FROM SAPA

A mere $7 should get you a room with a view like this...



...exactly how I imagined Sapa to look and it really did, the mist came down every day and added even more magic to the place...



...view from the window of Gerbera, our favourite restaurant in Sapa...



...entrance to the local market in Sapa town, more greens than you can shake a stick at...



...a sunburnt albino water buffalo, we would have offered him a bit of Nivea but we'd left it at the hotel...



...well someone has to keep it looking this good! With vast valleys covered in paddy fields, I don't know how they find time for watchin' telly...



...water logged rice terraces for as far as the eye can see...



...lunchtime rush in the sapa hills...



...and it really is this green...



..."you buy from me we no follow you" , some quite aggressive tribal sales women we encountered on a trek. The Sapa hills are home to a number of extremely colourful tribal groups, these sales ladies are of the Red Dzao tribe. It's quite hard to walk two steps without acquiring a few of them pushing their "handicraps"...

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Jaaaaa Przemyslaw a czy spotkaliscie Buke z Muminkow bo w tej mgle to wszystko jest mozliwe...cudowne okolicznosci przyrody!

Unknown said...

Lesiu i think you should get back to the hotel and get that nivea!look at that poor sunburnt albino water buffalo:)i'm wondering if one buttle will be enough, any way i love the pictures:)missing you a lot!

Jadziadzia said...

Lesławie.
I love your photos but especially, those on which you are on it :-).
You are my favourite Krasnalek :-).
Lot of loads. Jadziadzia :-)

Anonymous said...

Me too, Lesiu. These are fantastic. The rice fields look so impressive, I could stare at the for hours. There is something soothing about them.

Lola said...

I know I could say sth else, but... I love your photos!!! All of them :) It's a pleasure to follow your steps and eyes...