I travel with SaPa, Vietnam
Sa Pa is a tourist destination more than 30 km from the center of Lao Cai city. Situated at an average altitude of 1500 - 1800 meters above sea level, Sapa Town is always in a breezy cloud, creating an exotic and beautifully beautiful picture. Here, there is invaluable resource that is cool fresh year-round climate, with an average temperature of 15-18 ° C.
Traveling here not only to enjoy the fresh air, but also the tranquility of a North West land, Sapa is also the destination for you to admire the wild beauty of terraced fields, waterfalls Water, majestic boulders, explore the customs and cultural beauty of the mountain ethnic groups such as Black H'Mong, Red Dzao, Tay, Dzay ...
Sapa has a 3,143 m high Fanxipang peak on the Hoang Lien Son mountain range. Call Hoang Lien Son, because only on this mountain is the Hoang Lien, a rare medicinal herbs. The Hoang Lien Range is also a mine of precious woods such as oil, birds, mammals, monkeys, chamois and thousands of medicines. Hoang Lien Son National Park has 136 species of birds, 56 species of mammals, 553 species of insects. There are 37 mammal species recorded in the "Red Book of Vietnam. Hoang Lien Son Forest has 864 species of plants, including 173 species of medicinal plants.
Sapa has Ham Rong Mountain just next to the town, any visitors can go there to see the whole town, Muong Hoa, Sa Pa, Ta Phin valley hidden in the smoke. Today, with the hand embellished human, Ham Rong is really a landscape full of fruit of Sapa. And, if anyone has come to Shilin (Yunnan, China), Ham Rong can also help you imagine Shilin. To Ham Rong, visitors like to go to the garden, clouds clouded the human body, brilliant flowers on the ground.
Sapa also has an old stone church in the town and from the town back to the northeast on the way to Ta Phin cave has a monastery built almost as full of stone on a clear, clear hillside. Via the three kilometer-long trek northward to Ta Phin cave, the width may be enough to accommodate a large number of military-sized regiments. In many stalactites and stalagmites create interesting shapes such as dancing figure, sitting fairy, far field, sparkling forest.
Rice terraces - one of the beauty of Sapa
Particularly in Muong Hoa Valley there are 196 carved images of strange exotic people thousands of thousand years ago that many archaeologists have not decoded. The ancient carvings were ranked national monuments.
From Sapa town, about 12km west of Lai Chau, we will meet Silver Falls with the water flowing from the height of over 200m to create the impressive sound of mountains and forests.
Sa Pa with 6 ethnic groups also reside, each ethnic group has its own cultural capital with festivals such as the festival "Roong pock" of Giay Ta Van festival, the festival "Hien San (mountain bike) The "Jumping Festival" of the Dzao Red people, all took place in the month of Tet. Sapa is the "kingdom" of flowers, such as peach blossom, yellow peach, yellow peach, plum plum, plum purple, plum blossom, plum blossom, plum blossom, peach blossom, chrysanthemum ... especially immortal flowers live forever with time.
Sapa's Fair is held on Sunday in the district town (Sapa town). People in remote areas have to go from Saturday. On Saturday evenings people enjoyed the folk songs of the Mongolian and Dzao boys, with the sounds of the lips, the flute, the Mongols, with the bowls of wine filled with people. is old ... and people have given it the "love market".
