Sapa and around: viet buisness and minority people (hill tribes)

Thus I went for a trek in the mountains around the touristic place (and thanks to the viet, quite ugly now) that is Sapa.
I really hesitated about going to see the hill tribes or not. I didn't wanna go to the zoo, I didn't wanna have a big impact, in short I dreamt. So with the two australian girl I met on the bus when I was sick, we took a guide and walked out of the city. We were far from being alone on the way, actually with many other groups like us. We did a "homestay", which was actually a proper one, but I felt like being in a hostel. The thing is that the village we've been too, is way too close to the city, and therefore already got the civilisation in. So people got drunk with locals and stuff like this, I had to keep cool cause that bothered me a bit, but I guess it's the price of a "low impact homestay".
So during these two days, I saw amazing places, specially when I split off the group in the first evening, and then went though absolutly authentic places, where I could obviously not take any pics, but I'm telling you, I have some amazing paintings in my mind.
However, one more time in Vietnam, I didn't feel confortable with the people, neither the viet, nor the western, nor the minority, but them it's for other reasons I tell below.


Then tonigh I just had my best evening in vietnam. I met an unbeleivable American man, arround 50-60 years old I guess, that married a Muong woman (one of the big minority group). He took me to meet sort of "expatriates" and other backpakers in Sapa, but real ones, not the one that go from Koh Phi Phi to Viangvien without stoping on the way, and without stoping drinking either. Then he invited me to eat with him and his wife. He acutally cook in his room, so I could eat real homemade food. I had a nice vegetable soup, bamboo, special cocoa-cofee-cinamon whatever drink, black sticky rice, stickycorn... etc. It was soooo great!
Then I could really understand all the problematic about Muong and other minority people with respect to the vietnamese people and the country's history. I won't tell this here, but it was one more time the occasion to think about existential problems!


Tomorrow morning I take to bus to Den Bien Phu. I hopefully get there tomorrow night. It's apparently the worst road of the country. A lot of people told me it was gonna be the adventure out there :)