why we want to see Sapa

Because the people in the hill tribes, including the Black Hmong and the Red Dao, gather in Sapa for market day. They look something like the photo above, though the faces are a wee bit different. (We photoshopped that photo for our last blog, back in 2005, and it still cracks me up. The incorrect scale of the faces, the grin on my face, it's so funny to me.)