Sapa Travel - Sapa Overview

Sa Pa is a highland town in Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. This area is known to have beautiful landscapes, tourist attractions. Sapa travel has many enjoyable experiences

Location

Sa Pa is located on a site at 1500 to 1650 meters altitude on the slope of Lo Su Tong. The peak of this mountain can be seen in the southeast of Sa Pa, with an elevation of 2228 meters. From the town overlooking the Ngi Dum Valley in the east and the Muong Hoa Valley in the southwest. [3]

Topography - Climate

Located in the northwest of Vietnam, Sa Pa town at an altitude of 1,600 meters above sea level, 33 km from Lao Cai and 317 km from Hanoi. Beside the main road from Lao Cai city, to Sa Pa, there is another traffic, 4D highway connecting Binh Lu, Tam Duong, Lai Chau. Although most of the inhabitants of Sa Pa are ethnic minorities, the town mainly focuses on Kinh people living on agriculture and tourism services.

Although located in the North of Vietnam, should have brought a tropical monsoon climate, but due to its high terrain and near the tropics Sa Pa has a subtropical humid climate, temperate air around year. In the summer, the weather in the town is one day as there are four seasons: the morning is the spring, the midday is the sun, the sunshine, the cool air, the afternoon clouds and dew drops The feeling is as cold as the sky and the night is the cold of winter. The annual average air temperature of Sa Pa is 15 ° C. In summer, the town does not suffer from the harsh sunshine like the coastal plains, about 13 ° C - 15 ° C at night and 20 ° C - 25 ° C during the day. Winter is often cloudy and cold, temperatures sometimes drop below 0 ° C and snow. The annual average rainfall ranges from 1,800 to 2,200 mm, most concentrated in the period from May to August.

Residential

This is the residence of the population of 6 ethnic groups Kinh, H'Mong, dzao Red, Tay, Giay, Xa Pho.

The ethnic groups in Sapa have the following cultural festivals:

Giay in the lunar month.

Hoi An (mountain bike) of the H'Mong people.

Dzao festival of Dzao occurs in the month of Tet.

The busy market in Sa Pa on Saturday evening stretches to Sunday every week. Sapa market has special appeal for tourists from far. It is also known as Sa Pa love market because here young men and women from H'Mong ethnic group, Red Dzao can use the sound of the horn, flute, lip, leaf or song to find or meet with your partner