amazing footage, we are leaving for Vietnam in 2 weeks from Minnesota to Saigon. I never been to the far north Vietnam and is planning to go to Hanoi with my wife and 2 kids.
BACK TO VIETNAM......... I AND 2 OTHER MARINES JUST RETURNED FROM A WONDERFUL TRIP ( APRIL-MAY 2014 ) THE FOLK'S WERE VERY NICE TO US AND WE ARE GOING ( BACK TO VIETNAM )...................SEMPERFI
Howdy Mark:Thank you for sharing you trip with us all.I need to post my rural northern Thailand trip,you come across as a very nice fella.Peace from America:-)
Thank you for posting this amazing video, I born in Northern Part of Vietnam but have not gone back to visit for awhile. This reminds me a lot of my childhood :)
Wow, you have a great way of making videos. I admire the way you have the soundtrack live, and an track of your voice over it. Pretty cool. Your video is a nice portrait of a journey.
hi swampzoid i am from Tripasean Tours in Vietnam. With your Sapa traveling plan, did you want to book through travel agency or do it yourself? if you want a travel agancy to takeing care of your trip, pls let us know by email to info@tripasean.com or mess us through G+ or Facebook, we honour to serve your trip. Visit our web: tripasean.com/ to get further information of not only Sapa tour but also Vietnam Tourism
Awesome video Mark! I know how much work you had to put in to film & edit this. I actually started making travel videos as well while I was abroad this summer in Europe! Anyways, just stopping by to say great job, keep it up!
the views are breath taking. Dependent on tourism is great but I hope the city can find new ways to develop a sustainable modern agrarian economy. It would bevery sad to see the hmong culture integrate into vietnamese mainstream.
Hi there Clarine. That was July. I shot the video on a Canon HFS-10. These days, there are many fantastic video and stills cameras doing a much more advanced job. I presently shoot video on Lumix GH3 stills / video camera.
watching these over a decade after they were posted and still learning a lot. Considering doing this route to see just how much as changed. I know a bunch of dams have ruined the route but still think it may be worth doing.
Great video! Absolutely beautiful. When was this taken? I live in Thailand so getting there shouldn't be too hard, the question is when is the best time to go there?
I have just spent 2 days and 1 night in SaPa. I watched this video before I went; and I am very mindful of what tourism can do to a community, so I went with some hesitation. I came away feeling quiet sad. I was constantly accosted by kids in the streets selling small trinkets and when you say no they push into your space and follow you; it was worse than Siagon for me. There are signs up in SaPa telling tourists to not buy from street sellers and by doing so you discourage parents from sending their kids to school. What was good about SaPa was the local tour guide who was wonderful. We went out to lunch with him and had a great time with him.. I will some day come back to SaPa but it will be different, I am not sure how because i am also quiet mindful of the trend to have a more rural experience and larger travel companies moving into this space. Hopefully what is unique about SaPa will stay unique and not become a commodity. Conflicted and sad about this place and it's future. But absolutely spectacular.
In the North of Vietnam. Tourist should first go a tour Halong bay - Cat Ba - Mokey Island beach 3 days and then take a tour to Sapa - Bac Ha Sunday market 3 days
hi Josué Flores Olivares i am from TripAsean Tours, we offer tour to Sapa, if you are till interested in Sapa please contact us through info@tripasean.com or visit tripasean.com/ to get futher information about Sapa tour or Vietnam tour. we are look forwarn to hearing from you, thank you :)
hi, im going there with my boyfriend in 4 days too. i nid some information about Sapa as i dont know anything about it :D hope u guys can give me some. thanks
wow very nice video and country in Vietnam, Vietnam and red Laos communism are brother that's why Vietnam help red Laos communism to chased the minority pple
Thee hill tribe people I found them very unfriendling unless one bought their products and if one buys from one tribe has to buy something of another, that happened to us and this left a bad taste of northern Vietnam
You seem to be inferring (in not so many words) some quality of permissiveness, which of course could be nothing more than a natural friendliness and naivete, sans Christian-based ideas of morality or immorality, or the hard lessons learned from so-called civilization. This does leave them completely unequipped to deal with encroaching modernity and all its hazards though. Like getting caught in the trap of easy money (to supplement their subsistence living) via a transient population looking for a good time and even more opportunity still. But what is the alternative? education, organization, enforcement? So more modernity still? Or do we put a chain link fence around them and keep them where they are? And who makes these decisions that entire populations and their progeny have to bear?
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I went there this year and one of the hill people are still there from this video.
Amazing Mark,,,, such wonderful people,,,, your photography of this remote region is so beautiful.... i hope your health is doing much better now...
Thanks again. Very fortunate recovery had. Active and at it again. Thanks for the interest.
The hotel room view!
Wow! That's stunning view.
amazing footage, we are leaving for Vietnam in 2 weeks from Minnesota to Saigon. I never been to the far north Vietnam and is planning to go to Hanoi with my wife and 2 kids.
WOW!.. nice there place...hello sir good eveniNg from philippines...i see your all videos very nice....enjoy travel sir...take care and GOD BLESS....
This is very informative. Thanks for posting. I would love to go back to my country and visit SAPA.
So wonderful. I will be there soon.
Thanks so much.
Awesome beautiful view
Loving your videos! stunning part of the world and your account feels so authentic and real :)
great video .. stunning part of the world
Sapa is beautiful , my next to Vietnam I 'll visit Sapa
'You buy from her, you not buy from me' was what i got from the lovely Sapa locals ;
-)
BACK TO VIETNAM......... I AND 2 OTHER MARINES JUST RETURNED FROM A WONDERFUL TRIP ( APRIL-MAY 2014 ) THE FOLK'S WERE VERY NICE TO US AND WE ARE GOING ( BACK TO VIETNAM )...................SEMPERFI
great!!! Myself and Duc really enjoyed watching this- informative and makes me want to visit! Thanks Mark.
Thank you
Howdy Mark:Thank you for sharing you trip with us all.I need to post my rural northern Thailand trip,you come across as a very nice fella.Peace from America:-)
Thank you for posting this amazing video, I born in Northern Part of Vietnam but have not gone back to visit for awhile. This reminds me a lot of my childhood :)
Wow, you have a great way of making videos. I admire the way you have the soundtrack live, and an track of your voice over it. Pretty cool. Your video is a nice portrait of a journey.
fascinating and beautiful. i plan to visit Vietnam next spring. Sapa seems like a most see place.
hi swampzoid i am from Tripasean Tours in Vietnam. With your Sapa traveling plan, did you want to book through travel agency or do it yourself? if you want a travel agancy to takeing care of your trip, pls let us know by email to info@tripasean.com or mess us through G+ or Facebook, we honour to serve your trip. Visit our web: tripasean.com/ to get further information of not only Sapa tour but also Vietnam Tourism
Wow 11 years ago....
im going to sapa with some friends next month. ur video makes me wanna do a video about our trip badly. nice vid =P thax for sharing ^0^
Awesome video Mark! I know how much work you had to put in to film & edit this. I actually started making travel videos as well while I was abroad this summer in Europe! Anyways, just stopping by to say great job, keep it up!
wow this is wonderful! interesting and I learn! thank you.
I wished you can back to travel in Sapa,vietnam
lovely, ur going there in 4 days n my trip has to wait for a month to start. lol cant wait for ur journey video !!!!!!!
the views are breath taking. Dependent on tourism is great but I hope the city can find new ways to develop a sustainable modern agrarian economy.
It would bevery sad to see the hmong culture integrate into vietnamese mainstream.
Travel well. Let me know how it goes. Will be back there again soon.
wondeful ! my hometown
Hi there Clarine. That was July. I shot the video on a Canon HFS-10. These days, there are many fantastic video and stills cameras doing a much more advanced job. I presently shoot video on Lumix GH3 stills / video camera.
hope one day I will see my hmong poeple in sapa they are beautiful.
beautiful!
watching these over a decade after they were posted and still learning a lot. Considering doing this route to see just how much as changed. I know a bunch of dams have ruined the route but still think it may be worth doing.
Hi, may i know which month you went and the camera you used for taking videos/photos?
Great video! Absolutely beautiful. When was this taken? I live in Thailand so getting there shouldn't be too hard, the question is when is the best time to go there?
3:54 xem anh ấy kìa ^^, người Tây Bắc (ví dụ Sapa) thân thiên quá hà, người miền xuôi bận rộn nên có vẻ lạnh lùng hơn.
Hi Mark, May I know which month you went to Sapa? Thanks
I have just spent 2 days and 1 night in SaPa. I watched this video before I went; and I am very mindful of what tourism can do to a community, so I went with some hesitation. I came away feeling quiet sad. I was constantly accosted by kids in the streets selling small trinkets and when you say no they push into your space and follow you; it was worse than Siagon for me. There are signs up in SaPa telling tourists to not buy from street sellers and by doing so you discourage parents from sending their kids to school.
What was good about SaPa was the local tour guide who was wonderful. We went out to lunch with him and had a great time with him.. I will some day come back to SaPa but it will be different, I am not sure how because i am also quiet mindful of the trend to have a more rural experience and larger travel companies moving into this space. Hopefully what is unique about SaPa will stay unique and not become a commodity. Conflicted and sad about this place and it's future. But absolutely spectacular.
In the North of Vietnam. Tourist should first go a tour Halong bay - Cat Ba - Mokey Island beach 3 days and then take a tour to Sapa - Bac Ha Sunday market 3 days
enjoyed it Mark. what month was this filmed in. we're going in April and hope it's good weather for 3L Brits ; -)
This filmed in July - wet season. April should be nice.
Do you also speak Thai?
Hi, do you have a way to contact your guide in sapa? Btw, what a lovely video
hi Josué Flores Olivares i am from TripAsean Tours, we offer tour to Sapa, if you are till interested in Sapa please contact us through info@tripasean.com or visit tripasean.com/ to get futher information about Sapa tour or Vietnam tour. we are look forwarn to hearing from you, thank you :)
When my son and I visited Sapa a couple of years ago we met a hmoung woman named cho cho that gave us a great tour. Its a great place to isit.
magnificent
welcome to Viet Nam !please join us sightseeing.i love you so much
How to find s Miao guide when i reach Hanoi
wow she is my Hmong pple in Vietnam
300ks?
hi, im going there with my boyfriend in 4 days too. i nid some information about Sapa as i dont know anything about it :D hope u guys can give me some. thanks
3 OF US HAVE TO GET TOGETHER & GO TO BAC HA SOME DAY . YOU ME & MISS THANG NGUYEN OK greeting from SD.CA
wow very nice video and country in Vietnam, Vietnam and red Laos communism are brother that's why Vietnam help red Laos communism to chased the minority pple
dude don't use Viet Cong. It is like calling a German Nazi. although Vietcong was fighting for the independence.
Thee hill tribe people I found them very unfriendling unless one bought their products and if one buys from one tribe has to buy something of another, that happened to us and this left a bad taste of northern Vietnam
You seem to be inferring (in not so many words) some quality of permissiveness, which of course could be nothing more than a natural friendliness and naivete, sans Christian-based ideas of morality or immorality, or the hard lessons learned from so-called civilization. This does leave them completely unequipped to deal with encroaching modernity and all its hazards though. Like getting caught in the trap of easy money (to supplement their subsistence living) via a transient population looking for a good time and even more opportunity still. But what is the alternative? education, organization, enforcement? So more modernity still? Or do we put a chain link fence around them and keep them where they are? And who makes these decisions that entire populations and their progeny have to bear?