Our route today was only calculated at 275kms but estimated at a10 hour day, so we were turfed out at 7am to get on with it. It could be called a landscape day because that was more or less what we saw all day, although the day did not pan out to be as long …
Day 32 — A rest Day in Sa Pa
Established by the French as a Hill Station in 1922, Sa Pa today is the tourist centre of the Northwest. Sa Pa District is in Lao Cai Province, 380km northwest of Hanoi, close to the border with China. The Hoang Lien Son range of mountains dominates the district which is at the eastern extremity of …
Day 33 — Sa Pa to Thong Nguyen
Well this is different. We awoke to lightening, thunder, teeming rain, cold and ground level cloud. It made loading the car interesting, more a dash and stash whilst wielding an umbrella with the third hand. It also meant that as Paul dealt with an electrical fault on Cureton’s Jaguar he could use the wheel …