Photos from 8D7N Hanoi Halong Bay & Sapa Valley Photography Trek


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Love your layers...not too saturated just to my liking
 

My personal favourite amongst all the Halong Bay shots - the solitude woman seems eternally working her boat across the vast ocean.

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signing off now ...gonna get some zzzzz

Good nite guys
 

People is breast feeding.
Lactating mother cannot any how take medicine one.
Can only take Panadol...
HAHAHAHAHA....!
No. Instant healing, use bufflao's horn by the Hmongs.:bsmilie:
 

signing off now ...gonna get some zzzzz

Good nite guys

:what: good night, Encik.

Must eat bird nest one meh? I thought just pop one pill and "Koa Tim"

So simple meh? If life is so simple, then there will be no need for all of us to take this torturous trek to walk all the way to Sapa in the rain, in search of that
magic Buffalo-horn-cupping-over-the-forehead method for headache cure already lor...

And if none of us took this fateful trek, this photo would never have materialised...
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nice series!!!

CANTO Brother!
Wah, good to see you up still at such unearthly hours of the morning and thanks for coming by our thread and for your compliments!
 

CANTO Brother!
Wah, good to see you up still at such unearthly hours of the morning and thanks for coming by our thread and for your compliments!

Seem like you and Serene really enjoy this trip!! :bsmilie:
 

Mine is still GMT-48.

The 3rd largest Hang Sung Sot caves amongst the 3. As the saying goes, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Divinemoment, lovely lovely colours at Hang Sung Sot, reflected very nicely in this photo.
Really marvellous, I must say, the way the colours came out from our photos at the Cave.
 

SereneXMM #44
The Hmong's looking at the mountain.

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T R A V E L O G U E ~ Day 5 - Y Linh Ho Village - Lao Chai Village - Ta Van Village

The 12km trek down the Sapa valley of Lao Chai Village took us through gravel tracks, through mud tracks,
across streams running over the ravine and open up our eyes to the marvels of Hmongian terrace farming and rural life.
The weather was certainly nice and cool, not withstanding the rain which alternated between a light drizzle and a heavy downpour.

When we were lucky, there would be a very small window period when the sky cleared up slightly.
Enough to allow us a tiny peep of the peak of the mountains.

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And here is a peep at the peak.
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Somehow my luck always presented me a view shrouded in mist.
Hence, very soon into the trek, I more or less accepted my fate.
While others like stevepow, acpical, divinemoment, Helen, Chubbykei, George and Jim busied themselves with their landscape shots,
I busied myself looking for mist to shoot.

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Here, this is my version of the mist.
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There is a multitude of views and scenes to present.
But I think I had better summarise it as below:

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My summary... hahaha...
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We started our trek at around 8:41am and by 12:50pm we managed to reach the bottom of the valley.
We visited a Black Hmong family's abode, and photographed an old Hmong lady in her natural home environment.
Many of our members would have had very good shots of her, and I will leave it to their good hands to share with the community.
Lunch was of the highest priority when life brought us to this far-away land....

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And here is our lunch... mee, sandwiches and such...
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SereneXMM #44
The Hmong's looking at the mountain.

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Like your this shot, especially the plastic sheet sheltering her head

Thanks for sharing and also where is the shot of me in the rain chasing after the dog
 

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