Sapa faces

A weekend in Sapa (which is up the top of the hill from Lao Cai, just near the border with China) revealed lots of wonderful images of friendly minority peoples. Here's just a few of the faces we saw.







We were walking around the town on Saturday and bumped in to this mother and child. Hillary admired the fantastic hat on the baby's head so much so, that the mum decided to offer it to us for sale. I am sure that she really didn't intend to do this, but some of her friends prompted her to sell it to these silly rich westerners. It is a very intricate bit of work and is topped off with a lock of mum's own hair. She said (through a friend who could speak a bit of English) that she would use the money to help educate little Dao Linh.


Clever- a very effective umbrella on a rainy day!


We hope to head back to Sapa again to experience these friendly, beautiful people.