Hellos from Sapa.
We just spent 2 days in Ho Chi Minh and it's our 1st day in Sapa today. Took the overnight train and naz is just taking a snooze now to make up for lost and disrupted sleep. But I'm awake! The trekking and working out perked me up and yep, finally I can get to use the comp coz he's snoozing.
Talk about using comp.. for this developing country, I'm getting free wireless everywhere. From the smallest cafe to hotels.. free wifi is the norm. Ironically, the airport is the only place with no free wifi, with only a few internet kiosks around. Yep, so ES is happy that he gets to check his mails and do his research for his copyrighting assignments. He's like on a business trip, always on the comp doing that thing he do.
We're glad to have survived the crazy scooteriffic traffic in HCM. There's no traffic system and vehicles can just cut and go ANY direction they like, perpetually honking to signal that they're running amok . Rule of the thumb, just walk in normal pace...slowly, steadily, not too fast, not too slow and just look straight, avoiding any direct eye contact with the mob of oncoming traffic.
The pollution is umimaginable. Our friend fell sick from the weather and the pollution.
Sapa's air is MUCH fresher for sure and yep, I wanna breathe that all in.
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