Our day had started off when the glow of the approaching sunrise infused the imposing mountain in front of me. Mystical fog in mountain valleys made the scenery even more gorgeous. We looked at them with a tingle of excitement and briefly celebrated our own morning.
This was our first time in Sapa, little town in northern Vietnam. We were so lucky with the weather because it was horribly snowing in the last few days, and that made everything freeze. Anyway, Thank you for the nice weather!
We had planned to go to have lunch at hmong’s house on the hill. So after having breakfast, “Ka” came to pick us up at the hotel with her adorable hill tribe uniform. The plan was going to the market and buying some meats and vegetables we preferred to be our lunch, then heading to the destination. We all got one bottle of water in our hands and followed her. Ka told us that we had to walk around 7 km up, and it might take around 2 hours
I was chatting with her just a bit, but I could feel she’s lovely. All I knew about her was, she is only twenty years old but she already got married and have two children. Ka said it’s like a tradition to have children at the age around seventeen. If women here haven’t got boyfriend after twenty, it would be hard for them to find because it’s too late. When I heard that, I felt so lucky to be a Thai girl!
I looked up to the top of the hill and started to trek. The view along the way didn’t disappoint me at all. We met many people who live in small houses. They were doing their stuff I’ve hardly ever seen, like people carrying firewood, children sliding from the mountain with the handmade bamboos, and hundreds of animals living together. Everything was so real, and that made me feel as if I was in an entirely different world.