Some of these landscapes seem repetitive, but it never gets old. For more info on our time trekking through Sapa, see the Sapa, Vietnam post.

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Rice growing in terraces

Our guides weren’t interested in swimming

Black Hmong handicrafts

A young babysitter

An ~8 year old babysitter

The scenery of Sapa

Waterfall

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

Boy riding a water buffalo

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

He kept us up all night…

The scenery of Sapa

Baby swallows in their nest

A Black Hmong woman

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

Black Hmong women

A horse made of ferns given to us by one of the Black Hmong women who walked with us

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

Hanging by the swimming hole

The scenery of Sapa

Looking over the edge into a valley of rice terraces

Our swimming hole

Hanging by the swimming hole

The scenery of Sapa

Hmong laundry drying

Our guide Zazaa (second from right) and friends

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

Independent kids

A very pregnant pig

Zazaa’s brother caught a baby bird

Huge moth

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

Waterfall

Girl selling flowers

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

The scenery of Sapa

Zazaa with her mother, sister, and father

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