Arrived in Sapa today at 7:30! Got off the coach and there's all the guesthouse owners there ready to pester you to tell you to come see their rooms! You all should know by now how much I hate people and conversation around me at this unhealthy hour!

We agreed to view a room at Minh Quan guesthouse as it was cheap £3 each, with a hot shower, it was clean and just down the street from the town and the market which is prime location!

We went for breakfast at a cafe, after checking in and had sausage baguette, which she fried! The while actual sandwich, fried? Still, I'd eat anything right now! And with a cup of tea I think cost £1.50!

We went back to the room to sleep seen as though i had rough night but I expected to wake up at 12 to go sight seeing! You know me and Annie, we slept in until 2! :/

Went to eat noodle soup before our voyage! Was amazing and gave us tea with lime and sugar... So addictive!

First we walked through the market from Sapa town centre, were they sell mainly food, fruit, spices and meat, it's all downhill! They have loads of junk jewellery too!

Then follow a long road down begin the trek! Straight away at the end of the market you can see the tips of the mountains! In fact you see them from our guesthouse! It's a 2km trek to Cat Cat village we're you see how the locals live in their tiny village growing their own crops, there's kids everywhere running around playing with huge buffaloes! One kid was climbing all over one and didn't even care! There's lots of chickens and piglets and they store the rain water, it's so peacefully here it's paradise!

There's handicraft shops here too they weave linen and make bags and clothes for really cheap!

At the end of the village we carried on downhill (really hirts your ankles!) for another 30 minutes until we got to the water falls! They were epic! A huge river that flows through a valley and cascades down behind the mountain! Lush! Tried to get a photo of us on the not so robust bridge crossing the river, but the children jump and play on it do all the photos were blurry!

Here theres a few shops to stop and eat or buy jewellery and theres a dancing show where they dance with umbrellas! The music is so chilled and you hardly hear it over the gush of the river around you! I'm seriously never leaving this paradise! FACT!

We chilled there a while and then carried on trekking further, uphill this time! No wonder my legs are so thin! We walked through crop fields, rice fields, over more waterfalls through the valley and up through the mountains!

We saw a Group of baby ducklings with their mother, she came straight over for a look as soon when I pulled my phone out! They were totes cute and there not remotely scared! Five minutes later we walked past a shed were the ducklings where being cooked on skewers on a barbecue!!! I think annie nearly died! Trying to blow out the flames wouldn't have helped they were already burnt to a crisp! Poor babies! That's not how they do it in England, right?

We then chilled with a few more buffalo, one loved having his photo taken and let me stroke him, I didn't want to turn the next corner in case there was gonna be a kebab store waiting there!

On the way back uphill to the town we saw a wild chihuahua! Life is complete, now I don't need to travel all the way to Mexico now i know that Vietnam has them too! All I have ever gone on about is seeing chihuahuas wildly roaming the streets and not designer Gucci Poochie handbags, and now I have seen it! The little cutie scurried off so quick though I couldn't get a photo! :(

We carried on with our Trek uphill through the boiling hot sun and got back home for 6:00!

We decided at 7 we weren't even hungry but couldn't be bothered to shower and get ready so we quickly went out to eat before anyone saw us, then came home to shower! We walked around a little while and found an Indian restaurant that was expensive but nice! Korma for me, curry for Annie, too much pilau rice + too much naan, = two happy travellers :) came up to £11!! Woah! Breaking the bank balance for us! Was worth it though, we saw a French style bakery on the way too so I'm deffo waking up early and stocking up on Pain du Chocolat and croissants for the day!!

While we were sat eating, a tropical thunderstorm decided to become present and the worst rain I have ever seen came crashing down! It was totes scary! We were two long streets uphill, from our guesthouse and the streets had completely emptied! Water gushes down the staircases like an actual monsoon and were wearing shorts and flip flops! The waiter gave us a carrier bag for our possessions and we made a run for it! The whole town sat under shelter was watching us run through the streets like drown rats! Every time the thunder would rumble all the street lamps would flicker, heart attacks and seizures at the ready when we're running down alleyways with electric cables wobbling over our heads! Toads that jumped on my feet nearly became flip flop squash!

When we made it back to the guesthouse everyone inside laughed at us and we had to do the walk if shame dripping wet upstairs! At least we got to eat though, they were all sat waiting for the storm to clear and it carried on all night long... Whose laughing now? :p had the best shower when we got back, we have a red hot power shower... Just what we need!