lao cai train station / sapa town

couldn't really sleep well last night...i was like sweating one moment and feeling cold the other...putting my blanket on and off lol...so i woke up probably quite early and sat on the bed staring into the window...although u couldn't really see much thru it anyway haha...slowly the rest of them woke up too...the vietnamese lady tried to communicate with us, but she doesn't know english...so i ended up only saying "kom biet...kom biet" which means "dunno" in vietnamese...haha...finally we reached lao cai train station...taking all our stuffs, we have to squeeze thru the crowd to get to the gates, after which we look for our driver who will drive us up sapa to our hotel in a mini-van, but of course with many other tourists together too...the ride takes roughly around an hour i think and it is mostly uphill as sapa town is situated 1650m above sea-level...for those who like mountain climbing, sapa is also the starting place for the tallest mountain in vietnam, mount fansipan which peaks at 3143m above sea-level...the sceneries along the way is magnificent...u can see lots of rice terraces cutting into the steep slope of the hills...and also clouds floating very low and some just around you...reminded me of genting highlands that i went few years back...it gets pretty cold as we go higher and higher...in the distance, i can see the sapa town signboard...finally we are reaching sapa town!!! haha...