Mt. Fansipan is the highest mountain in Indochina, at 3143m. It’s the main focus of our trip. The minibus brought us from Sapa towards Silver waterfall and stopped at the starting point of the climb. Just before we started the climb, it rains. It was very misty, visibility was low. We were not able to see the beautiful view of forest. We felt disappointed and prayed that the weather will be good for the next day.
Our package includes porter service. But the porters only carried our food, not our backpack. We had trekked for 6 hours before reached the campsite. A simple bamboo hut was built at the campsite for hikers. As we were the only group there, we occupied the whole bamboo hut. It’s still raining out there. But surprisingly it wasn’t very cold. The dinner was prepared by porters. After dinner, we played cards until the guide urging us to bed.
11th Sep 5.30am, we took our breakfast, carried the light backpack, put on our headlight and started to hike up to summit. The weather was bad, still raining and misty. The trek was muddy. After 4.5 hours trekking, we climbed up a vertical wall (straight up at an almost 90-degree angle) using rope. All of us were excited because we thought summit should be within 5-10 minutes journey after climbed up the wall. But apparently we were wrong. After half an hour hiking, summit is still not in sight. The trail seems like endless. Initially, Lai, Ming, Tack, Karen and I were together. But after a while, Lai, Ming and Tack were disappeared. They were too fast, I couldn’t cope with their pace. Karen and I were exhausted but kept on pushing ourselves to move forward. Finally, I had reached the summit at 
about 10.50am, took me 5.5 hours from the campsite. 9 of us had arrived at the top. The weather was not good, very cloudy. We really regret to have not seen the spectacular view across the peak of Mt. Fansipan. While waiting for Tuck Seng and Liow to arrive, I recorded a video at the summit. My friends, still remember what did you say?
Tack : 这么容易的山，下次不要叫我来爬。没有比我想象的冷。Lai : 我觉得不容易 lor, 看我的脚。(point at her muddy leg)
Hai Poh: 我们蠢事做尽，终于上来了。因为我们有罪。
Karen: 终于给我过关了。
Ming: 很高兴，可以和他们一起来爬山。
Soo Ching: 来，我拿国旗。越南国旗， Mt. Fansipan, yeah!
Joshua: 我要感谢国家，感谢上帝。
Ah Kiew: 我希望快点吹走那些云，爬得那么辛苦，坐飞机来到这里。
Jing Yee: 好辛苦啊。刚才爬的时候一直不到顶的，终于到了。
At last, Liow and Tuck Seng had arrived. We welcome them by singing the songs. http://travel.webshots.com/video/3099187230066465503bHhjXZ
The journey wasn’t ended as we still have to trek back to the campsite. We started to descent at 12.30pm and back to campsite at 5pm.
12th Sep 9am, we descended after having breakfast. We chose to descend to Sin Chai village instead of following the original route. Although the Sin Chai village route is longer, I think we had made the right choice because the scenery there was very beautiful. Sin Chai village is isolated and seldom visited by tourist compare to the commercialized Cat Cat village. Our Mt. Fansipan hiking trip was ended at Sin Chai village.
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