Its funny how 5000,50000, 500000 can all sound the same when someone in a different language says them. So really paying the equivilant of 25 Dollars fo a ride from Lao Cai to Sapa instead of 5 dollars isnt as bad as paying 500000 instead of 50000 to the ear anyway. It was a 35 minute bus ride so at least from that end it was worth the 25 dollars.Yeah confusing but that is how you usually end up overpaying.
Sapa is a nice little town in the mountains where a lot of terrace rice paddies are located and the indigineous Hmong can be found.They were previous allies of the Americans and South Vietnamese and fought very vigorously against the Viet Cong.
I ended up with a gaggle of Hmong women following me around a very foggy Sapa in hopes of selling me bric a brac of various natures. Try as I might to rid myself of these pests it was impossible until I would go into a restaurant and after a couple of coffees I was able to emerge Hmong free.
The return to Lao Cai was only 50000 dong since I had learned to listen better and 10000 dong for a motorcycle ride to the bridge and the entrance to China
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