Hills in Nam'

- Sapa, Vietnam
Up in the hills of Sapa, locals can be seen working away collecting rice, tending animals, or maybe just carrying around bamboo baskets and wearing pointy hats for kicks. hmm, bad joke.

Well anyways, I was real excited to have had met a group of girls from the local H'mong tribe here in Sapa, Vietnam. They were real anxious to show me and my friends around the hills. 4 hours into our venture, I saw a couple working in the distance. This sort of seemed like the perfect epitome of Sapa. Massive rolling hills with rice paddies covering them, a few people here and there working about their daily routine, and... nothing else.

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Choice views of Fansipan are the prime commodity on sale in Lao Cai's signature destination, Sapa, a hill station high in the mountains which is a vestige of the French colonial era.

Before the French came, Sapa was home to several ethnic minorities, and now that the French are gone — they're still there. Dzao, Red H'mong, and particularly Black H'mong have adapted to the tourist trade with considerable zeal, and their notoriously aggressive sales techniques should probably be attributed to how poor the region is, and how hard it is to eke out any kind of a living.

Sapa ranks along Ha Long Bay and Hoi An in terms of attracting tourists solely on the merit of its natural beauty ... Read our complete Sapa travel guide

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