Translation of offerieren

This website helped me learn French. Although most of the users intend to learn either Spanish, German and English some users come here to learn French. I met a few people that helped me with it.
I interpret this as follows: It reflects the calm life without any hectic atmosphere. The life that these two are looking for (like they did before) is far away: Far away, beyond the river.
We managed to get a few hours of bad sleep and arrived at the destination called Lao Cai, the capital of the province with the same name. It was only 370km from Hanoi, but the ride lasted nine hours.