Sapa is a frontier town and district in the Lào Cai province in northwest Vietnam and borders China. It is one of the main market towns in the area, where many ethnic minority groups such as H'mong, Dao and Tay live.
Sapa town in the morining before the clouds hid the town.
A massive moth in the booking office, it was huge and hairy.
Before the clouds had lifted over the valley at the beginning of our trek.
Some of the village people that you meet along the way on the trek down the valley.
One of the local people
Just before the clouds lifted to expose the rice terraces.
One of the locals who followed us all the way down the valley.
The bamboo pipes pump the water into the terrace and then the men push the water along the terrace to even out the ground preparing the land to plant rice.
The H'mong women who tagged along with our group down the valley.
The rice terrace valley leading to Lao Chi 
Lao Chi village and rice terrace.
This will be the new road leading to Sapa.
Lao chi village and rice terrace.
Tamar caught unawares.
The H'mong women helped us along the slippery path, even though i think we were ok.
Walking along the rice terraces.
Our guest house.
Sapa Village, hidden inside the clouds.
