Sa Pa is a town in the highlands, is a famous resort of Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. It hides many wonders of nature, natural landscape and topography of the mountains, the green of the trees, making a painting with harmonious layout, with romantic scenery and attractive from the landscape earth northwest region.
Sapa is located on a floor at 1,500 to 1,650 meters in the mountainside Suay Lo Tong. The top of this mountain can be seen in the south east of Sapa, with an elevation of 2228 meters. From the town overlooking the Ngoi Dum valley in the east and Muong Hoa valley in southwest
Located in northwestern Vietnam, Sapa town at an altitude of 1,600 meters above sea level, the city of Lao Cai 38 km and 376 km from Hanoi. In addition to the main road from the city of Lao Cai to Sapa also a route to other traffic, connecting Highway 4D Binh Lu Commune, Lai Chau. Although most Sapa district residents are from ethnic minorities, but the town focuses mainly Kinh people live by agriculture and tourism services.
Sapa has characterized climate temperate and subtropical, cool air all year round. Weather in town one day all four seasons: the morning is spring weather, noon weather like in summer, usually sunny, balmy climate, afternoon clouds and dew fell cool feeling such as collecting and night sky as the cold of winter. The average air temperature in the 15 ° C Sapa. In the summer, the town does not bear the harsh sun as coastal plains, about 13 ° C - 15 ° C at night and 20 ° C - 25 ° C in the daytime. Winter is usually cold cloud coverage and temperatures sometimes below 0 ° C, sometimes with snow. Average annual precipitation ranges from 1,800 to herein 2,200 mm, most concentrated in the period from May to August.
Sapa town is one of the rare areas of Vietnam with snow. In the period from 1971 to 2011, 15 times the snow in Sapa. Activity biggest snowfall on February 13, 1968, continuously from 3 am to 14 pm the same day, up to 20 cm thick.
In 1897, the French colonial government decided to open an investigation on ethnic minority highland. The first investigation group to Lao Cai in 1898.
Winter 1903, while conducting mapping measurement, the expedition of the Department of Indo geographical landscape discovered fireplace ground Tung and Sa Pa village. This event marked the birth of Sapa town.
In 1905, the French had collected the first information about the geography, climate, vegetation ... Sapa began to be known as the cool air, the fresh and beautiful scenery. 1909, a built resorts. 1917, a travel agency established in Sa Pa and a year later, the French began construction of the first villas. In 1920, the railway line Hanoi - Lao Cai completed, Sa Pa is considered the summer capital of North America. In total, the French had built in Sapa nearly 300 villas.
Sapa devastated much under the policy of scorched earth war in 1947 and the border war in Vietnam - China 1979. [2] Thousands of hectares of pine forest covering the towns were burned, many ancient mansion built by France was also destroyed. In the 1990s, Sapa was built, rebuilt again. Many hotel opened, the newly built villa. From the 40 rooms in 1990, up to 300 in 1995. In 2003, Sapa has about 60 hotels with 1,500 rooms, large and small. The number of tourists to Sapa visitors increased from 2,000 in 1991 to 60,000 visitors in 2002.
Sapa name is derived from the Mandarin. [Citation needed] In Mandarin pronounced SAPA SAPA news or "sand" by the day before the Sapa town where a sandy beach that only people often indigenous marketplace.
From the word "Sa Pa," Westerners to pronounce unsigned, the Sapa and they were written in French the word that the "Cha Pa" a very long time and then one uses "Cha Pa" as one from the Vietnamese. Later, this word is written Sapa agreed.
Sa Pa town previously had a water circuit red extrusion coating, so the locals called "hero clock", ie "red spring".
It is inhabited by 06 ethnic Kinh population, Hmong, Red Dao, Tay, Giay, Xa deputy.
The ethnic groups in Sapa are the cultural festival featuring:
Assembly of the Giay POC forests into lunar month.
Society flukes span (mountain bike) of the Hmong people.
Dao holidays dance festival takes place in May every year.
The days of the fair in the bustling Sa Pa on Saturday night last until Sunday. Sa Pa Market has a special attraction for visitors from afar. They also called it "Sa Pa love market" because here men and women of ethnic Hmong, Red Dao possible thanks to the sound of pan flute, above the lips, reed, or with the lyrics to find or meet your
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