Sapa travel guide
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“Well, Sapa brings in peace in a fine, rugged scenery and cultural diversity… a very sweet time for us!” remarked a young couple after their honeymoon in Sa Pa.
Location
Sa page authority Town is located in Lao Cai Province, north-west Vietnam, and 350 km north-west of Hanoi city, close to the border with China. Sapa Town is famous both for its fine, rugged scenery & for its rich cultural diversity. French used khổng lồ consider Sapa as Summer Capital of Northern Vietnam in the early decades of the 20thcentury. Its naturally gifted beauty keeps attracting more và more people to spend their vacation there since then. Particularly, the place is the foremost choice for honeymoon couples!
Geography & Weather of Sapa Town
Geographically, Sapa Town is exactly a mountainous area of Northwest Vietnam. The whole Sapa District is dominated by the Hoang Lien Son mountain rangewhich is at the Eastern extremity of the Himalayas, being famous with the Vietnam’s highest mountain of Fa yêu thích panat a height of 3,142 m above sea level. The town of Sa page authority lies at an altitude of about 1,600 m, bringing in a cool and foggy site of Sa pa Town.
Let’s join a fancy trip to lớn this lãng mạn town!
Taking a night train from Hanoi khổng lồ Lao Cai, and then 45 minutes more from Lao Cai thành phố by bus, Sapa appears in fanciful fog. Thanks khổng lồ the height of 1,600 m above the sea level, the average temperature of the area is always 15-18°C, cool in summer, but a bit cold in winter.
Sapa Town takes its pride in its quality climate in Vietnam. It is highly seasonal, with a subtropical climate in the summer & a temperate climate during the winter. Mean annual temperature for Sa page authority town is 15.4°C, with a maximum of 29.4°C và a minimum of 1°C. The warmest months are July and August, và the coldest months are December & January. Snow falls in some years on the highest peaks. In the morning và afternoon, it is as cool as in spring & autumn. Yet, at noon, it is as sunny và cloudless as in summer. In the evening, it drastically changes into coldness just as in winter. This is actually a unique advantage, making Sapa Town different from anywhere else in the nation. However, travelers should be noticed that there might be sudden thunderstorm and heavy rains at noon in summer. Yet, subsequently, a rainbow appears turning Sapa into a beautifully magic land with seven colors! So, remember lớn bring your best camera so as not lớn miss this magnificent view!
April và May are the best time for tourists khổng lồ watch the most scenic beauties of Sapa Town, or else it might be cold & foggy before that & rainy after that. During these two peak months, the town is blossoming with pink & white flowers, and green pastures in valleys. The clouds that settle in the valley in early morning would quickly disappear.
Beauty Spots and Resorts
The scenery of the Sapa region in large part reflects the relationship between the ethnic minority people & nature. This is seen especially in the paddy fields carpeting the rolling lower slopes of the Hoang Lien Mountains. The impressive physical landscape, which underlies this, has resulted from the work of the elements over thousands of years, wearing away the underlying rock.
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Most tourists agree that it would be regretful if the leisure và relaxation time in cool và fresh weather is not accompanied by visiting trips khổng lồ Sapa’s prideful natural beauty spots, such as tê mê Rong Mountain, Silver Waterfall, Rattan Bridge, Bamboo Forest và Ta Phin Cave. The town is also the starting point for many mountain climbers và scientists who would like to discover the Fansipan Mount, the highest mountain in Vietnam with 3,143 m height. Can you imagine that Hoang Lien Mountain Range is called “the Alps of the North Sea area” since Fansipan Mountain also marks its greatest height among others in the Indochina Peninsula as well. The pyramid-shaped mountain is covered with clouds all the year round. On đứng top of the mountain is filled with frequent below zero temperature, especially at high altitudes.
On approaching the Sapa town, the very first thing tourists may find is the detached wooden mansions và villas perched on đứng top or side of the hills, behind thick pine forests, hided by fog in the morning. Old & new villas with red roofs now appear & then disappear in the green rows of pomu trees, bringing in the beauty of European towns.
Flowers
Sapa Town is trang chủ to various families of flowers of captivating colours, unique in the vast country. When Tet, the Lunar New Year Festival, comes, the whole township of Sapa Town is filled with the pink colour of peach blossom brought from the vast forests of peach just outside the town. Sapa Town is regarded as the kingdom of orchids. Here, orchid lovers are even amazed by the choice, when trekking in the forest filled with several hundred kinds of orchids of brilliant colours & fantastic shapes, such as Orchid Princess, Orchid of My Fair Lady"s Shoe. Some orchids are named after lovely singing birds such as the canary, salangane"s nest, & more.
Specialties
Foreign tourists are actually fond of scarce and precious specialties of Sapa Town, such as forest’s product, handicrafts, delicacies (smoked meat, “thang co”, “cai meo”, san lung wine, corn wine, etc.), typical of ethnic minority people.
Most travellers do like to bring some of the local fresh vegetables back home for presents. Thanks to the fresh and cool air, Sapa Town is the ideal land for fresh temperate vegetables such as cabbage, chayote, precious medical herbs, fruit trees (plum, pear), và so on.
Cultural diversity
Sapa Town is famous for its special cultural diversity in a combination of ethnic minority groups’ culture. Visitors to lớn Sapa will have opportunities khổng lồ discover the quality customs of the local residents. Local markets are the town’s typically cultural element, which are always crowded & joyful, attracting hundreds of visitors. This is the common place for minority groups khổng lồ gather & exchange goods. Market sessions are also a chance for local people to lớn promenade. No foreign visitor could help joining such a market session, a typical cultural element of Sapa Town. What is more, tourists coming to Sapa Town at weekends have the great chance khổng lồ learn about local ethnic people"s courtship và martial life, through the Sapa Town love market and wife kidnapping ceremony of the H’Mong group. The ceremony will begin on April 29th. This is part of a five-day festival, titled Festival on the Cloud, khổng lồ mark the beginning of the Sapa 2006 tourism year, in the northern mountain township of Sapa, in Lao Cai Province.
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If ever asked to lớn drop a quick comment, even the toughest person must admit the romance & peace of a magnificently cool & beautiful Sapa! I hope you should spend a short summer here, & you will soon nội dung the idea!
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