Amazing, amazing, amazing!

Sa Pa is so incredible! It is like a foggy version of Silent Hill – just lovely. The people are great and friendly, the whole culture is so interesting and fascinating and everything, but of course the most of them just want to sell something to you. We, our group of three young dynamic guys, stayed seven days in this area, but in the Sapa Luxury Hotel only four days. Our first (Internet booked) Hotel was not that good – or what mean not that good? It was just a little bit “off the beaten track”, so we found one (or two) streets away from the main road and the market the SLH and got a really big, comfortable room. Three beds, nice looking, hot shower, TV, Internet, breakfast, everything was clean, the staff was courteous, and so on…
No, we really like it and we also safekeeping their business card – as a precaution for the future…
We made a lot of tours trekking during this week, but we were planning everything by our self (no booked tours).

  Two days of our trip we stayed in a small village some km away from Sa Pa – just for a few dollars the nights – together with the local people and that was a really interesting experience (but of course not the same “quality” like the SLH!). Oh, at first we don’t know, that this is possible, but the tour guide from the hotel (I think his name was something like Hujang) was absolutely great, gave us this tip, and of course it was for free – so a really nice and (I think) unusual service…
After this new living experience we went for the last two days back to the SLH, could use the laundry service (exactly 3kg of old, foul-smelling clothes :D) and had absolutely perfect weather (fantastic view from the hotel restaurant over the local mountains and small part of the village! Really, really great!).
On the last day we rent a scooter on the hotel reception (I don’t know anymore the charge, but we got a good discount) and drove together with the guide to some other small villages (not so touristy like the Cat Cat village, for example, but on a different way impressive.)
Everybody who has the chance to do something like this should really do it – and the hotel was great! Oh, and we got free tea all the time! ;D