It was freezing when we arrived, proper Irish weather and lots of fog, the H'mong tribe women are all over the town selling souvenirs, but are really nice. We looked at a couple of hotels and settled on the lotus because it was the warmest we'd found and at $10 how can you say no.
We slept off our journey and got up around 12 and went hunting for a jacket for Tina, I off course kept my jacket just incase (the hoarder that lives within me) . Tina's like her mother and doesn't tolerate clutter in any form (you know it's true Anne!).
We found a brilliant northface gore-tex jacket that opens into both a jacket and a fleece for $35, a bargain considering the same jacket would be easily over 150euro in Ireland. We had a stalker during our haggling from shop to shop, a little H'mong mountain woman trying to flog us souvenirs, she was with us for half an hour and Tina gave her a dollar for a picture to try and get rid of her, but she wasn't finished yet, she stuck with us for another 20 minutes until I bought some musical instrument off her ($1), she followed me when she coped I was carrying the money, but she was really nice and all smiles, never aggressive or rude.
We went for lunch to eat in one of the many lovely restaurants on the main street, our restaurant had a fire which was the USP for us. I had 'happy chicken' here, no it's NOT chicken laced with marijuana, but there local speciality. I got the local beer Lao Cai, and Tina got the plum wine, we swapped not long after getting our drinks, Tina plum wine could have started a car, I asked the woman in the restaurant what ALC% it was and she told us it was around 35% but she wasn't sure!
We went around the village for a while but the fog was just so dense you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you.
We went out for dinner this evening in another nice restaurant (candle lit tables), décor wise they were probably the nicest 2 restaurants we've eaten from in Vietnam.
Tomorrow some trekking in Cat Cat and checking out the tribal villages.
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