Sapa - 2005


	Sapa (2005)

Photos per year (number): 2005 (71)


A fine day lights up the scenery of Sapa	Children at play	Going down in the beautiful valley	View of Sapa	The valley near Sapa	Paddy terraces	Houses amongst the fields	Walking down the valley	Horse in a paddy field	Talking to our guide in the scenic paddy fields

Contrasting colours and light of Lao Chai	Young Hmong girls along the tourist trail	Meet the village children	Down in the valley	Hmong villagers observing the construction of the new bridge	At work on a concrete bridge	Moving up a hill in a village	Children running across dry rice fields	View of Lao Chai and the road from Sapa	Hmong clothes put out to dry

Piglets and sow	A Hmong house	Leaving a village	Hmong woman resting	Smily Hmong woman after a rest	Follow the guide	Irrigated paddy terraces	Always joking around with the locals	Sweet potato patch	Bamboo irrigation

A peaceful buffalo	Are you sure this is a good idea?	Checking out the buffalo	Finally on the buffalo!	I finally climbed on the buffalo	Hmong women ready to sell to tourists	Getting to know each other	A nice young Hmong at the home stay	Preparing sweet potato	Helping out with the cooking

Unpacking the groceries	Preparing dinner	All around the kitchen fire	Dinner is nearly ready	Staying warm in the kitchen	Late evening around the fire	Our guide Chi sits by the fire	Late night TV and smoking for the men	Pancakes for breakfast	Morning pancakes for breakfast

Quiet country scene of ducks	Walking through a bamboo forest	Beauty of the bamboo cover	Our guide after a mad race down a hill	Red Zai women waiting for tourists	Drowning the tourists with offers	A cute village pig	Hmong silverware for sale	Red Zai woman by a waterfall	Chi's amusing face

Red Zai woman	A watermill to pound rice	Chi shows the cute horse she just made	Village life along the paddy fields	Our guide and I	Girls playing with simple shuttlecocks	Coming back up the valley	Our room in Sapa	Colourful chilis	Misty local food market of Sapa

Cold morning in Sapa's food market