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 …
Day 34 — Thong Nguyen to Dong Van
Yesterday was an epic day and surely today could not match it, could it? Well, it could even have surpassed it. We were promised that the road would be good, which it was for the most part and the scenery equally as good as the day before but it exceeded it by some margin. We …