Sapa - Hmong portraits

Tragically, I'm no portrait photographer, but these will give you some sense of some of the tribal peoples in Sapa. These are Hmong women in the market area of Sapa. Yes, I bought something from everyone who allowed me to take a picture. I have a very heavy suitcase soming home...

While waiting for our taxi drive to come back (he'd gone off to the local sleeping room for taxi drivers) we chatted at length with the woman who has the one year-old little girl. Saw lots of Hmong women, teens and children in traditional dress, but no men in traditional dress.

Sapa is the jumping off place for trekking in the mountains, and close to the highest point in Viet Nam, Fan Sai Pan mountain.