Booked a bus in the morning to Sapa from Hanoi through our hotel with the price 550k VND to and fro (2 ways journey). Reaching there take around 6 hours journey, it's quite comfortable throughout the whole journey as it's a sleeping bus where everyone has a bed to lay on, they even provide you with a pillow and blanket. The only cons is that there's no toilet available throughout the whole highway journey. Experience diarrhea stomach problem during my journey bad, most awful experience I had, asking the driver to find me a toilet and he got me an open public toilet without a door and tissue.
Our lunch reaching Sapa, hotpot! The most accommodating food in a cold weather. We opt for the salmon chicken hotpot set where they serve salmon and big chunk of chicken, order also a plate of fried rice because every seat is required to order a dish. The bill comes with a total price of 370k VND, not cheap but reasonable for places like this. Such as Cameron and Genting Highland price is higher than the land, that's what I trying to say.
We later than after booked a tour with the hotel for the next day. So, today is free and easy. Walking in this chilling weather is cool and great. The fog gets thicker reaching night time. Here I bought the famous Cafe Viet Nescafe where I asked my colleague to buy for me when she went on a trip to Hanoi but cannot be found anywhere. Don't think the normal Nescafe in Vietnam wording is the same from the Nescafe that have the Cafe Viet on though both are coffee with milk.
Sapa doesn't have Grab and so we are not able to visit those famous Instagrammable cafes that my friend sent me because it's not a place for local food. We random walk uphill making our way to find a good cafe to sit in. And here we are in a fancy one called Dao cafe mainly because they have an offer for beer and it feels mysterious on the upper floor. The interior and environment turn out great. Coffee is served in fancy ways too. We stay there from beer happy hour to coffee session and lastly we settle our dinner there having western food (a plate of carbonara spaghetti and a regular pepperoni pizza). Total bill 450k VND, a great deal for 5 hours of chit chat just talking about random stuff.
Next day we start our journey early with a tour we booked. We got a free breakfast (banh mi) from the hotel. Forget to introduce the hotel I'm staying, Sapa New Orient Hotel. The host is great, I remembered we had difficulty to speak with her staff as she only speaks local language, Google translate doesn't help too because the local dialect is different. The host even called us through the phone a few times. Even though we checked out from the hotel waiting for the bus to fetch us at night, we get to bath at the public toilet down there and were served with a cup of hot coffee. Hospitality is 100 marks, thank you very much. Because I did not study much on this trip and hence I did not bring any shoe or hiking shirt to wear for this tour. I actually walk with a slipper and nonsuitable clothes. Make it lastly too with the help of the local people although I did not buy any souvenir from them at the end as the price is way too high. This is a trip and walks that definitely worth, now let the photos speak.
Tour was around 6 hours. We later went back to bath and clean ourselves. Dinner in a random shop and wait for our 9pm bus back to Hanoi.
