✴❊♡ ellensooo ♡❊✴: Sapa

Sapa!

Sapa is a little town up in the mountains, and founded in 1903. Before 2003, the roads were hardly fit for travelling by vehicles, except for russian Jeeps. Then in 2003 they decided to celebrate the 100th anniversary and rebuilt all the roads, and it became a bit more touristy. But the sights are still breathtaking. (:

We went there and visited many tribal villages, including the Black H'Mongs (silent H), Flower H'Mongs and Red Zaos. We were basically walking in the clouds! (: On the walking road to the villages, there were the real Christmas trees, and there were cobwebs all over the trees. Droplets in the clouds stuck themselves onto the cobwebs and made a really pretty sight for me! haha. The picture is the one in the bottom middle part of the collage.

We visited Cochly Market, a weekly market opened by the Flower Monks tribe (Chinese: Hua1 Miao2 Zu2) The market was made really colourful with the colourful costumes of the tribal women, and the variety of goods they sold there - simple electricals like battery powered torches, toys, icecream, wedding invitations, butchers selling all kinds of meat, etc etc.

Breakfast in Vietnam usually consists of freshly baked miniature baguets in the morning. WITHOUT preservatives. Seems impossible to get in Singapore. It comes with a variety of side-dishes - omelette, scrambled egg, butter and jam, cheeese and jam, or chicken or beef cutlets. Delicious!

There's a variety of animals in the villages here, and they roam about freely in the vicinity. There are cows all over the roads, dropping bombs in the middle of nowhere to prepare the fertilization of the soil for the next season.

There are ducklings following hens and chicks around too. It's so cute!

Oh, and there is another way of drinking the delicious coffee. You put the powder in a small tin cup which is punctured at the bottom with holes, acting as a filter, then fill the tin with some hot water, and there you have it, coffee! Add in condensed milk!

And lets not forget, the cute cats too. Hee.

Hanoi Wholesale market!

When we came back to Hanoi, we visited the market early in the morning. It was busier than the streets in hanoi. Stand still and you'll be knocked over by people rushing for time. They sell all sorts of fruits and seafood there! Another colourful market! we bought some dragon fruits, mandarin oranges, and lychees at a very low price. And the fruits were all without insecticides, with the whole fresh, sweet, goodness ((: Yums.

And look at the weighing machine. It's as small as a small stool, but it weighs stuff up to a 100KG!

More pictures!

Heineken endorsed a vintage wedding car!