10/12/09 Today we wake up and walk around to check the price and eat breast fast. Then we come back to hotel for shower and check-out, we just drop the bags at rest room of hotel and then we go out to shopping half day. About 17.00 we come back to hotel and the bus take us to go train station to go to Sapa tonight. The driver take the customer about 10 person from another hotel. The guide come to talk care us and give the information about the train and hotel at Sapa. Guide sent us at the train and we walk to find our container. Me and my friend get container#9 and the bed#23,24,25. This train is wooden train with air-condition and bed. Tonight we sleep in the train.
11/12/09 About 5.30 staff of the train knock the door for call customer. We leave the train and walk to the Laocai train station. Staff from Sapa Summit Hotel wait us there. The bus take us from Laocai to Sapa about 1 hour by bus, the road pass the many mountain. After reach hotel we wait the room, some customer to travel around casue they book the trip already. I don’t book it and we just walk to the restaurant for eat breast fast. This hotel have 6 floor, Lobby in 3rd floor, the room in on 1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th and 5th and the restaurant in the grand floor is the floor deepest. This hotel have big area with garden. After food we walk around hotel for take photo and we come back to front for ask about room, we get room number 503 at the 5th floor. About 12.30 we go down to lobby to ask about trip to Cat Cat village(H’Mong). The staff let the guy to be our guide. He can abit speak thai. The Cat Cat village is big area village they have 70 house with 600 peoples live. They do work Farm rice and animal and hand make material. We spend time about 4 hour to walk around village and then we back the hotel. After shower we walk to the market for shopping the H’mong pants, the technic for purchase the thing in Vietnam is cut the half price if they refuse you just walk out, they will call you and give lower price abit and you still say no I don’t want this price and walk out, they will give you lower price abit more than before until you can get the price you want. After shopping we walk to find hot pot for dinner. We cannot find the hotpot resturant, I ask 3 girls student about hot pot resturant but they don’t understand we said, then we leave them to another way. After than they running to me and my friend and shout “hotpot hot pot” they bring us to Hot pot resturant, yes this is the food I finding. We say thank you to the girls and they also very happy to help us to find the resturant. We order a hot pot for 3 person and spring roll, this shop have show h’mong dance. After we leave the restaurant we walk to hotel with cold weather.
12/12/09 About I wake up and open the window to look the sunrise and the fog is under and cover with the the mountain. We check out about 11.00 and drop the bag at rest room of hotel then we go out to walk about sapa town. We come back the hotel about 17.00, the bus bring us to the Laocai train station about 1 hour and 20.00 we go to the train for back Hanoi by the wooden train , yes tonight we also sleep in the train.
13/12/09 The train reach Hanoi about 5.00am and guide waiting us and take the customer to send to the hotel, I knock the door the Price 79 hotel and the staff open the door for us, we just wait the time about 1 hour for room guest check-out early in the morning. Then we go the room and shower and 8.00 we go down to lobby to wait the bus to bring us to go one day trip at Halong bay. About 4 hour in bus we reach to Halong bay and we go to the big boat with other customer for travel by boat on the sea. The halong bay isn’t beautiful as phuket sea but we ok with the different place. After finish trip we back honoi by bus and reach Hanoi about 20.00 and the bus drop us at the shopping area. We shopping again than walk to the hotel.
14/12/09 We early check-out about 6.00 and go Noibai airport. We leave Vietnam by FD3701 by airasia about 9.00 and reach Thailand about 11.00. After I reach airport and hurry to open my mom “Mom I am airport now , and please cook rice for me, I am very missing rice” hahaha casue at Hanoi I all time eat only noodle , pho , toast with egg and KFC.
