If you are a favorite and passionate about learning new cultures, Sapa of Vietnam is a hidden number worth exploring.
Located in the mountainous Lao Cai province about 350km northwest of Hanoi, Sapa is a great travel tip and gives you a great chance to see Vietnam’s colourful ethnic minorities and explore some of its most spectacular scenery. For a visit in summer try to go midweek, because the town can be very busy at weekends.
How can you learn about a city’s cultural? That’s right, by visiting the local people and see how they live! There’s no greater lesson than experience it by yourself. Here in Sapa lays such huge and wonderful villages of the local people that will surely amaze you.
1. Cat Cat Village – the most famous village in Sapa
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Besides beautiful scenery with terraced fields and Muong Hoa streams. Coming to Cat Cat, you will be led down a giant staircase that leads to the magnificent waterfall called Tien Sa Waterfall. Cat Cat village was built more infrastructure for tourism. Such as small streets paved with stone through the village center, exhibits, and artifacts. labor products of the people, conservation of handicrafts.
Along the staircase, you will be welcomed with various souvenirs shops sold by the H’mong people. And at the end of the staircase, you’ll come to a wide road which surrounded by wonderful natural and fresh cool air. You can hire an H’mong dress, put them on and begin your journey in Cat Cat village – it’ll definitely be an unforgettable experience.
2. Ta Phin - Sapa’s signature handicraft village
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This place is famous for bath salts that make up the brand "bath medicine leaf Red Dao." When walking around the town of Sapa. You will find many massage parlors with bathtubs of Red Dao.
Ta Phin village is always crowded with women wearing traditional clothes, holding colorful reels of thread and cloths. They mostly sew to earn a living, so in this wonderful village, you can find distinctively hand-made brocades made by ethnic people such as bags, scarfs, purses, skirts, and even backpacks and coats. All these products are beautiful in bright colors and various patterns.
3. Lao Chai village in Sapa
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The people living in Lao Chai village are quite friendly, they will allow you to join them in meals, and let you ask them about their cultures and customs.
4. Ta Van village in Sapa
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Visitors who come to Ta Van village will have to go past a small and narrow road, surrounded by fertile terraced fields which adorns by the green of corn and rice. Growing rice is the major profession of the Giay. Local people also produce instruments and engraved silver.
Ta Van is the strongest homestay service development. Local people live in both stilted houses and common houses with a solemn central part which is served as a place for ancestor altar and guest reception. Visitors will be overwhelmed by the beautiful and simple houses there. There are many homestay rentals in Sapa. Visiting Ta Van, tourists can also stop for lunch at local restaurants.
5. Y linh Ho
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Often not mentioned much, but the Y Linh Ho is very suitable for trekking tours. Standing on the southern edge of the town of Sapa, looking down at the foot of the Y Linh Ho village. Feeling very close but to go down very far due to the difference in topography, and the road to the village is difficult to go.
You will have a chance to visit wooden and bamboo houses of local people, the cool and fresh river and valley to Lao Chai village where the H’mong also live, maybe have a picnic or even a swim if the weather is good enough.
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