Sapa - The Christmas vibes

All along we had been looking forward to Sapa and the amazing rice terraces. However we found ourselves a bit unlucky here. It is winter in Vietnam. Not meaning it is below 0 and snows but cloudy and A Asian version of cold. Cold it was and more cloudy than ever. During the night it dropped below 8 degrees and during the day it would't go higher then 15 and the vision would be less then 5 meters.

All with all, our stay should have been bad here in the mountains of Sapa. However, it had a cosy feel. The cold was nice once we baught a few fake jackets and it felt as Christmas. There were " heisse Maronen" and even glühwein. Also the trees were filled with red, green and white lights and thus the whole village felt like a winter sport village dressed up for Christmas. As everyone ran away from Sapa we somehow lingered there for a few extra days. Went to authentic northern Vietnamese markets were they sell all kinds of colorful things and less colorful meat of all sorts of animals. All sorts!