Photo Tour of Sapa, Guided by Hmong Women

Get a taste of local life in the mountains of rice terraces outside Sapa in this photo tour.

 

The beginning of our three day trek in Sapa

 

our entourage of local Hmong women. They were unpaid, they only hoped to sell us something at lunch

 

Lina and her "guide"

 

rice terraces just formed into the hills

 

 

us and our guide

 

the Hmong women take a short break before our final descent into town for lunch

 

 

enjoying the scenery

 

a mother with her child tends to a rice terrace

 

terraces of recently replanted rice in the foreground

 

a Hmong man demonstrates his pipe

 

Lina picking rice to be replanted

 

beginning our final descent on day 2

 

enjoying rice wine with our gracious hosts on the second night

 

 

day 3, and we thought we saw a lot of mud on day 1!

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