Sapa

Buffalos are pretty sweet.

After 10 hours on the night train, and 2 hours on a minibus (one of which was spent waiting for the minibus to fill up and leave) we arrived in the mountain town on Sapa in the Lào Cai province. The town of Sapa is not a pretty colonial town with nice buildings, it's more of an ugly and dirty small Vietnamese town. However, it's surrounded by beautiful mountains, and lush green rice fields. The only reason to go to this remote region is to trek around the small villages and see the rivers, the waterfalls and the rice fields. In this part of Vietnam many local minorities live and cultivate the land.