it's just us completely alone there's a lot of corn and tried to charge times ten so
good morning from Sapa Vietnam yesterday we took a six hour bus journey all the way from Hanoi
to get here it was a unique experience because it was love-themed couple-themed Jordan and i had to
share a sleeper so it was very snuggly but we've woken up this morning in our beautiful hotel and
i've come downstairs to stock up on this amazing buffet breakfast this hotel is awesome it was like
30 a night and it's giving us grand Budapest hotel vibes and the buffet breakfast is pretty
good there's like a few western options a few local options but i have a bacon and egg sandwich
right now so i really can't complain today we're going to need it we've got a massive hike planned
the views here are just incredible the Hike that we're going on is called the cat cat village a
lot of the time people do it on guided tours here sometimes reluctantly so because people
come up to you and just want to to take you there obviously in exchange for a little bit of money
which is fine we've elected to just do it all on our own so hopefully we can find the trail and
make our way through without any problems
the village is located down in a valley so we are hiking down like
quite far now knowing that we have to hike back up
this is Cat Cat village it's really cool the views of Sapa and the mountains are
beautiful everything's a bit homemade built so what we're standing on right now you can
see through the ground which is a bit scary i almost just felt through but this is the first
place that we've come to where we've both been like wow in awe of the yeah like just stop and
look magical like the mountains and the clouds all going in between i don't know i guarantee
again the camera will not do it justice yeah we're going to run out of battery pretty quick because
we're not turning it off but we have a lot of places to see down here so i do think we're
going to be down here for a while i think the next thing that we're going to see is like a mud house
this is a traditional home of the area that they've kept up for visitors to come
and experience it's really interesting i don't know what the corn means there's a lot of corn
i don't know if it's the time of year time of day but it seems quiet
no one's hassling us which is nice shops line the entire way down but it still feels okay
so i hope you can hear us because it's a waterfall behind us but this seems to be the
main place that everything is going towards when you get the tourist map it is the waterfall and
the love bridge it's definitely the most people we've seen so far today are here yeah everyone
funnels down here and then they know it's a long walk up so they stay for a while yeah
i can see why though it's beautiful all of the waterfalls and the water steps and stuff
is awesome but apparently there's a forest we can go to so we're going to try and find that
we bought a drink off someone at one of the shops so we didn't feel guilty for
asking directions and now we are on our way to the thing they call it the original forest
so if you come to Vietnam you should come to Sapa
village come to the cat-cat village you have to come here get something to eat bring it down
over here on your way to the original forest and have a picnic because that's what i wish
we did this is amazing the way to the original forest is not marked very well at all in the
actual complex even if you have the map it doesn't really look like it leads the way it is here so
keep asking people which way to the original forest they'll point you up
some stairs which kind of look like they go to someone's house maybe
but you keep following it through you walk along this amazing river and we've been hiking along the
river for about 15 minutes haven't seen a single person heading in either direction it's just us
completely alone i love it i love it i can't believe that this is Vietnam
it's beautiful plus it's like the first hiking we've done of this trip like you're walking
through a village but i don't really think that that's a hike like this is outdoors in nature
hiking through i don't know it's beautiful
we caved yeah we're not walking up we could have like it's definitely doable you have to take
breaks but this guy walked past and he gave us a really good price to get to the top so off we go
made it back turns out the guy that drove us up and someone who was helping him to communicate
down the bottom miscommunicated and tried to charge times 10 so
but it was a good ride now i think we will i think we'll rest for the whole day because