Misty Sapa; Buffalos and Cowboys

 I journeyed by 6 hour bus from Hanoi to Sapa, a mountain town in NW Vietnam known for trekking and having the highest mountain in SE Asia.  During my time in Sapa, it was alternately misty, rainy, cloudy, murky, overcast, drizzly and foggy. This picture mostly sums it up-

I did a trek to a couple of villages where you got an occasional view of the famous terraced rice fields- 

And saw Vietnam’s version of the Golden Gate Bridge 

I also took the worlds longest cable car to the top of Mt Fanispan, the highest mountain in Indochina, where the views were mostly nonexistent- (it was closed to hiking due to weather)- 

I did read somewhere that the views would have been a real wow if the weather had cooperated -

The Vietnamese take no interpretation risks  

I did see some ersatz cowboys at the base- 

Maybe they were trying to round this lazy water buffalo up- 

He seemed somewhat unroundable tho   Onto the renowned Ha Giang loop and hopefully better weather