Jananas

I wrote a Caturday post yesterday based on a photo taken while we were in Sapa, Vietnam. In that post I mentioned some awesome things.

Like most of our time in Sapa, it was chilly and so the mountains were misty. It made it difficult to get good photos, so instead we mostly just enjoyed the view and then bought post cards to remember it by (heh).

I did grab a photo of the H’mong apple wine I tried at the little food stand. For a locally and small scale produced alcohol, it was quite good. It did have that little bit of bite, but the sweetness and taste made it delectable. I can’t remember exactly what I was charged, but this drink was roughly the equivalent of $1USD.

Next up, the spectacular waterfall in the village. The climb down is long and just stairs, stairs, stairs (s0 many that my legs hurt the next day, and just from climbing down!). The view of the waterfall made it all worthwhile. I think I was even able to grab a decent photograph of it, which makes me even happier.

Last picture for this post is something we saw on the walk down to Cat Cat Village proper. Everywhere we went in villages there were drainage and irrigation channels. One of the major ones on the way down was right next to the stairs. It was dry and two young boys were sledding down the irrigation channel. They had overturned stools that they were using like toboggans and were obviously well versed at this particular game. It made the Canadian in me happy to see kids and sleds, even if there was no snow.

Its amazing how universal some things are.