Hey guys and welcome back to FOMO the Vlog
In this episode, Polina and I are one a mission to find Vietnams most Iconic View
The rice fields in Sapa
The first step of mission Sapa was to take an 8 hour overnight bus from Hanoi
The f**k is happening???
Welcome to: 101 Sleeper Bus
I quit
This is crazy, my stuff is taking up all the space
I don't know how I'm gonna, I'm going to sleep like this
Oh they give you blankets! Okay! Yeees
And they don't give you space
Like look, look!
Are you comfortable now???
Very comfortable
If you ever wondered what it feels like to be in a coffin.
You dark, dark person!
And the neon lights add like a party vibe
Welcome...
It's like a party coffin
It's like a sleepeover, with 20 other people
New frieeeeeeends
Let's make new friends
At least there's wifi
We got to Sapa... and it's raining so so hard
Step two of Mission Sapa was to find a good trekking guide
Today we're going trekking!
Yeah! We're catching some of the sun!
We're going talking with the Sapa Sisters who are feminist trekkers
Because their Wi-Fi password is girl power! So let's go!
Explaining how desperately we wanted to see the rice paddies,
the girls planned a route for us and assigned Little Mui as a guide
So how many kilometers are we doing today?
We will walk around 13/14 kilometers
Yaaaay
I thought this was like a walk... NO we do Trekking!
I love it, I love it, I'm ready
Let's do it!
We just wanted to do a really slippery patch of land
I think I slipped like five times, at least I didnt fall face down
Which is a good sign!
Five more hours to go
What?? I thought, I thought the smell...
Agghh Polina!
Agghh okay wait
Is it okay???
He come down here..
He come or I come???
No you come down here, he's not gna go anywhere
He so handsome
We're 2 kilometers in on our 15 kilometer journey
We've already lost one knee, one foot, one person, one Polina
Here is a marijuana
Mhhmm
So we planting, we not using for smoking or for anything
We're just using for saving the seeds and again for growing
For the hemp and to make clothes
So right here it is not ready for harvest
maybe another two, three more weeks
What do you think Polina?
I think we should come back in two three weeks
We're walking through the rice paddies
And it's really muddy and slippery
How's it going Alin? Ahh well..
One of my shoes is wet, and now I feel my socks squishing
but it's really good!
It's kind of fun, but kinda difficult at the same time, but the view is really incredible
It's really beautiful here! Yeah, I agree
Before we could complain anymore. We finally got to the viewpoint
Guys, please go to Sapa if you're ever in Vietnam
Don't listen to the naysayers who say that the night bus is dangerous, that you might die
Which is maybe kind of true
Trying sugar cane?
Mhm, Little Miu gave us some sugar cane
How is it?
It's really sweet. Do you eat it eat it?
You bite it, you chew it and you spit is off
Oh you chew it, it's like a chewing gum, yeah like a chewing gum and you spit it off
You bite more, if you bite more you don't feel so much the juice
Polina!! Why is it always this which you?
I'm 24
You're 24!
She's also 24!
I have one son, he is five years
Here, people just marry after you finish secondary school
then they will marry and have a kids
How did you and your husband meet? We met in, in the love market
Ahhhh
After talking to Little Miu for quite some time. I finally asked her how her English was so good, and she
Surprised us by telling us that she learned English by talking to tourists just like us
We got lucky, because Little Miu was one of the top guides in all of Sapa
Guys, unfortunately
the beauty of the rice paddies often blinds tourists like us
to the fact that rice agriculture is one of the largest human sources of methane
harming our atmosphere and environment
The situation becomes even more complicated after you get to meet the amazingly kind humans that live in Sapa
Most of their livelihoods, dependent on this rice farming
Sapa left us with a lot of food for thought regarding the hard relationship
that we humans have to the nature and world around us
Hello! Hello!!
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