This is what you will see when u are at the summit of FANSIPAN! hahaha... is really nice to have the clouds all below you.. and nothing above you.. haha.. this is my first highest climb... Aiming to climb more and even higher altitude! haha...

We had our breakfast at this restuarant. All of us ate Pho Bo, Ga. It means Beef Rice Noodle (pho bo), Chicken Rice noodle (pho ga). It was delicious. and i realise something... vietnamese like to eat lemon grass... hahaha...
This restuarant seems to be cater to bagpackers.. there are lonely planet and other travel guides inside for u to read..

After that.. we met up with HQ and Johnathan at VegaTravel.. and we start touring around.. too many pics... so lazy to upload...


haha... At night, we had our dinner at the same place as the previous dinner.. We went to Hanoi Train Station to take to Lao Cai Station, which is the last station. It will be an 8 hr journey.. so we sleep on the train..

Day 2 (9/12/08) Lao Cai Station to Sapa Town- Fansipan

We reach Lao Cai at ard 5am in the morning.. It was cold... haha.. We set off to Sapa Town, where our tour agency is. Our tour guide, Name, came and we sat in a van to Sapa town. It was very cold at Sapa Town. We talk with smoke coming out from our mouth.. so cool! haha.. like kids.. fascinated by it... haha.

Name brought us around... we also went to his house that was shared with his friend.. After sometime, we packed our bags and begin our journey to Fansipan. But firstly, we went to Silver Waterfall.. It was nice..
Finally, we reached the foot of Fansipan. We started our climb. We stop over at Camp 1 for our lunch. Then, we carry on to Camp 2 for our overnight stay. The portals cook for us and we had Happy Drink (aka rice wine). it was cold at camp 2.



This is Camp 1. Where we had our lunch.


Day 3 (10/12/08) Fansipan


This day, we woke up late.. haha. Our plan is to go up to the summit and back down to Camp 1 for our overnight stay. Our guide got say tat this day will be a xiong one.. haha.. And was indeed, a xiong one.. it seems like endless upwards climb.. haha.. but worth it..

This is the Summit!!


Day 4 (11/12/08) Fansipan back to Sapa Town

Finally, we finish our trek.. The weather was fine and cooling... i like.. hahah... although came a little unprepared for the weather.. Our van is waiting for us.. and we were being fetch back to our Travel agency to get our belongings. We checked in to our hotel just further down from the agency.. it was a 3 star hotel.. with comfy bed, good scenery and heater!! haha... We had our lunch, as included in the package.. Our dinner, we spend a little more there.. but the stuff were nice.. =)

This pic we took with our portals.. haha.

Day 5 (12/12/08)

This day.. we went trekking again.. haha.. but we trek at the rice field of the minorities... Nice scenery... It was really peaceful (without those kids following u)... Those minorities they follow u for a motive... buy their stuff! hahaha.. i was aware of tat.. but i can't reject.. I'm just too kind.. whoahahaha... We had our lunch, which was prepared by our guide...

This is a pic of the rice field..

This is a pic of the girl that followed us thru our field trek.. And we didnt buy things from her.. sadded...

At night, we went to Lao Cai Station and took the train back to Hanoi Station... A good bye to Sapa Town...

Day 6 (13/12/08) Halong Bay

We reached Hanoi Train Station... No one picked us up. we were hungry.. so we settled down at a roadside noodle stall... We walked back to VegaTravel from the train Station.. A good Morning Exercise.. haha.. Our next destination is Halong Bay.. was a little disappointed because there is nothing much to do there... haha.. except scenery.. tat's all ba.. we stayed in the boat.. The lunch was nice, but dinner was a little disappointment.. But overall, was ok.. We did caving... nothing much actually..

This is Halong Bay scenery... full of these types of rocks in the river...

This is the Halong Bay boats.. there are rooms that we stayed in for the night..

This is the sunset that we took while kayaking.. we did kayaking as one of the activity.. the river was not very dirty according to our eyes.. not body.. haha.. all of us did not swim.. cuz i think is quite cold? haha...

It was a good experience with a nice batch of ppl during this journey.. Thank you HQ for planning it.. =) Hope to have another trip with u guys soon! haha..