Things To Do in SAPA - Rice Terraces & Cat Cat Village (Part 3/3) | VIETNAM

This is our third and final Things to do in Sapa video. Sapa is a popular place in Vietnam for people who enjoy trekking. There are a number of different hikes and treks you can do but if you're short on time or don't want to do multiday or long treks you can follow what we did which was to hire a driver and a local guide to take us to do a way more easy-going short trek between Lao Chai and Ta Van Village.
The short trek between Lao Chai Village and Ta Van Village allows you to soak in the picturesque terraced rice fields of Sapa as well as observe and learn about the local ethnic tribes and their culture from your guide. Our driver picked us up from our accomodation along with our guide, dropped us at the start of the trek then picked us back up at the end of the trek where we said goodbye to our guide too. He then returned us to our hotel.
Our guide Phinh was very friendly, warm and spoke English well. You can call her directly through mobile if you'd like to book her as your local guide too. If you do book her services, please let her know you found her through watching our video :)
Phinh Ly
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NB: if you plan on doing longer hikes, it's also recommended to hire a local guide who is familiar with the land.
A Hmong village which is much closer to Sapa's town centre is Cat Cat Village. It's definitely way more commercialized and catered to tourists but the views you can get within the village as well as Cat Cat waterfall are worth checking out if you're able to avoid the crowds and don't mind lots of stairs.
Motorbike taxis readily offer their services in Sapa's town centre so it's an easy and fun way to get to Cat Cat village. Just agree on a price with them before hopping on and confirm if you want them to wait for you after too. Take down their phone number just in case you need to contact them.
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VLOG DATE: 26 Apr 2024
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[@nikkilogan7726]

This simple beautiful province life of Sapa makes it more livable by the locals. Love it. Thanks guys 💖

[@PeterandYen]

It was a really lovely place to visit! Thanks for always watching, commenting and supporting our channel Nikki 💖💖💖 We hope you're having a great weekend!

[@PeterandYen]

😊👍 sounds like you really enjoyed the Sapa vlogs Nikki. Hope your can visit there one day.

[@catherinekhoo1246]

Life is so simple and nice ❤

[@PeterandYen]

We're grateful to be able to be observers in their home going about their day 🙂 it's so much hard work that they do ❤️

[@rob1971]

Such a contrast between the two villages, and some beautiful views, but what really shines is how friendly the locals are 😊 Glad you'd such a fun day out 😊

[@PeterandYen]

We usually find Vietnam has a lot of very friendly people, especially as you head out of the city areas. Glad the contrast came through. They were both very different.

[@rlim9947]

Very good series. I'm looking forward to watching your next one. Lovely views.

[@PeterandYen]

Thanks 😊 next vlog coming up will be from the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@lucaskoh9173]

Love this Sapa series.👍

[@PeterandYen]

Thank you 😊 we had a blast in Sapa. Glad you enjoyed the series too

[@darylmckay]

Gorgeous views again. I like how you guys avoid the crowds 😊

[@PeterandYen]

😁 there were no shortage of amazing views from Sapa. Very picturesque area. I think we were lucky with the crowds cause as we left it became a national holiday and there were so many more people.

[@lh6135]

The rice terraces and the evolution of planting...can feel it is really hard work with wholesales racking it in. Blessed we have these farmers who still plough on The lunch Banh Mi 🥖, looks like a comfort food is really great to go with Vietnamese coffee (which I recall you guys prefer tea) Finishing off with a bamboo skewer 🍡, looks pretty dangerous alright, good to know that it did not hit Yen Have a great week, going off to Mount Cook tomorrow 😀

[@PeterandYen]

Wooohooo! Mt Cook, feel excited for you. Hope you had some great weather today and caught some awesome views 😎 So true about the terraces, must have taken many generations of hard work to get them into that shape 💪

[@lh6135]

@@PeterandYen Just arrived at Mt Cook see some snow on the side of the road Many thanks, weather tomorrow forecast to be good

[@PeterandYen]

@lh6135 so exciting and how perfect to get great weather even tough it's almost winter!

[@rayandjotravels]

Really enjoyed your videos from Sapa. Superb. The Banh Mi looked incredible, I swear we could smell them!!

[@PeterandYen]

😊 sapa was a really fun place to explore. Felt different to the rest of Vietnam 🇻🇳 but then the banh mi brings you right back 😂

[@vince5433]

Im heading to Sapa in August and this is the best series ive seen on KZbin thus far. Great job both!

[@PeterandYen]

Thank you! 🙌🏻 We hope you'll have an awesome time there 😊

[@SeoulMan2020]

Diving out of the way of motorbikes into the mud, nearly becoming a bamboo skewered wife, finding herself in the palm of a giant a hand and being forced to come up with a silly pun in exchange for her safe release (couldn’t think of why else she would say such corny awesomeness on her own free will 😁)… looked like quite the dangerous adventure for Yen 😂. Glad you guys made it through the day safely😁😁. I got the same vibe from some tourist places in Vietnam… thought it’d be a clear cut answer between local places and tourists ones, but I was pleasantly surprised many times how enjoyable I found the latter. Peter’s simple “so good” to describe the banh mi’s summed it up perfectly. Looked like another wonderful day Vietnam… thanks for sharing and safe travels!!

[@PeterandYen]

😂 yes a lot of adventure for Yen in this one 😂 sadly this is our last vlog from Vietnam for this trip. But we have a bunch from Philippines coming up 🇵🇭 How's your travel planning going? Figured out where you want to have your next adventure yet? 😁

[@PeterandYen]

Yen here: sadly (or maybe secretly proudly) claiming that corny pun all on my own 🤣🤣🤣 did you notice there was a rooster that crowed at the perfect time too when I said it? Not even an added sound effect.. nature just stepped in perfectly lol 😆😆😆

[@SeoulMan2020]

@@PeterandYen no need to secretly be proud…own that 🌽🌽🌽😂. Had to go back and listen for the 🐓… right on cue😂😂😂. Hope you guys are having a blast in the Philippines 🇵🇭!! I can’t remember if this is your first go around there? Be safe and enjoy!!

[@SeoulMan2020]

@@PeterandYen …by the way, surprised Yen isn’t a big fan of banh mi’s… though I can see why.. some are quite heavy and processed

[@PeterandYen]

Hahahaha thanks Seoulman! 😂 We've actually just made it over to Taiwan now 😁 spent just under a month in Philippines but it was a chill spot so not a lot of vlogging. Second time visiting but first time was only for like a weekend trip to make it to a cuzzie's wedding.. we were working back then and I was in the middle of a big project so couldn't really take much leave but didn't wanna miss his wedding either so super short trip it was! 😅 Hope you've been well wherever you are right now 😊 oh and the thing with banh mi for me is that usually the bread is just way too hard and crispy and it cuts the roof of my mouth so I really don't enjoy food that hurts me 😂😅 plus it's often messy and I'm quite a neat eater so like it's just a struggle to eat one for me 😂😂😂

[@davidbeazley1958]

👋🏽👋🏽

[@PeterandYen]

☺️✌️

[@Kiwi_Col]

Love the culture there, with so many old skills still used. It is a perfect tourist location, apart from skewers.. lol. And a 'handy' location for observation. Sorry, couldn't resist that one, prob 'coz I'm a Dad. I had to look twice for the stairs, they are so tiny! Looking forward to potential future adventures 😊

[@PeterandYen]

😂 I'm not a dad but I've been using dad jokes for as long as I remember 😂 gotta hand out props when they're due... good one 👍

[@bookwormfaith]

I feel you on wanting a ride back to the CBD lol an hour and a half is a long walk! Looks lovely tho

[@PeterandYen]

Hahaha yes! Lazy traveler life 👍😂

[@ouradventerousdays]

The cat cat village look very peaceful and less crowded (or did u guys avoid filming the crowd) lol. That vintage sewing machine, I remember watching my cousin sewed our clothes when I was young. That Banh mi (pork floss) looks so yummy. I’m fasting so watching you eat those made me drool 😋🤤.

[@PeterandYen]

Hahaha yeah... missing a good banh mi already! Just spent about a month here in Philippines 🇵🇭 We filmed the more peaceful areas but in saying that it wasn't too busy on the day either. 😊 my mum sewed my clothes on a vintage machine too.

[@ouradventerousdays]

@PeterandYen Wow you guys are moving fast. Lucky us, we do have a lot of bread shops that sells good banh mi here. Our mum know how to do alot of things hehehe

[@rinang6108]

hi peter & yen, thank you for the video. very nice & informative. may i have the contact for the local guide phinh & transport please? thank you 😊 rina

[@PeterandYen]

Hi Rina, glad you enjoyed the video. You can find all the details for each of our videos in the description section 😊

[@rinang6108]

got it. thank you very much ❤

[@rinang6108]

sorry, is phinh's contact number correct? i am not able to get her on whatsapp.

[@PeterandYen]

I don't think she's on WhatsApp unfortunately.. she gave us her local number so could call her when you're in Vietnam. She can speak English pretty fluently but can't really read. The alternative is when you go to Sapa, go to the tourist office in the town centre and organize through them for the driver and guide (if you can't reach Phinh prior). They are helpful and can organize it all easily for you 🙂👍🏻

[@PeterandYen]

We don't have the driver's number btw sorry! We went through the tourist office twice and they just instruct the drivers for you on what you want, where and when to pick you up etc but found they weren't as fluent in English as the guides like Phinh are (they aren't a team I believe and just get paired up). Good luck with it all! 🍀🍀🍀

[@Billoushukla]

New zombie I mean New Zealand you have improve your camera quality do something very nice

[@PeterandYen]

Thanks must be all of yens color grading 👍

[@vince5433]

Be nice!

[@Billoushukla]

@@vince5433 I am sorry that was my microphone I actually said New Zealand 😂😂🤣