Trekking in Sa Pa was another experience- completely different from trekking in Himalaya. Here everything was muddy and we were sliding all the time. Well, it was fun. We couldn't see our shoes as they were fully covered with mud. It looked like we stepped into a huge chocolate cake :) We almost lost them as they were so heavy and stuck in the deep mud.
We were trekking in a group of some other tourists. Amongst them there was a family from Belgium that gave us hope that once you have children you can still travel. The couple has been traveling for 8 months with 4 kids and the smallest one is 4 years old. Amazing!
We finished the trekking thanks to ladies from local villages that were all the way with us. At the end we had to buy something from them instead so we ended up with lots of handicraft staff- that cleared our wallet completely :)
Fortunately the fog wasn't so dense so we managed to get some shots.
Home stay appeared not to be proper home stay fortunately for us. It was so cold that I cannot imagine how we could sleep in one of the local wooden houses with no bed but ground instead.
We did enjoy though, we had a nice dinner with local family and delicious desert. It was black sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves and inside the rice there was a roasted coconut and some nuts- heaven in the mouth. After that we went to sleep in a cold big room. Fortunately, there were no other tourists so we could have more blankets for ourselves.
Now we are back from Sa Pa with some cold :( Salvatore is down with flu lying in bed at the moment. We had to postpone our next trip to Ha Long Bay. Hopefully he recovers very quickly as soon we have to fly to Singapore.
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