Sapa is famous for both its fine, rugged scenery and its rich culture diversity. Sapa is nestling of many ethnic minority village and vivid green rice terraces are sculpted into the mountain sides. It would be of considerably less interest without the HMong and Dzao people, the largest ethnic groups in the region. Its lush, [...]

The smiling faces of children, the shyness and charming of young ethnic girls appear simply in the collection of Vu Minh Trong. The foggy town of Sapa attracts many people with its beauty in the dusk. Children playing on the grass

Recent days, the temperature in Sapa region has fell to below 5 degrees Celcius, even to 1.5 degrees Celcius on November 21. At O Quy Ho pass (over 2000 meters above sea level), turned white with ice and snow. Many visitors headed to Sapa to see the winter wonderland.

Xoe Festival in Ta Chai is the spring festival of the Tay to pray for good crop, full of grains and rice. The ritual is rather simple with a tray of offerrings put at the foot of a neu tree which show the sincerity of villagers to the god of farming. After the magician observes [...]

The resort town of Sapa in winter fully covers with cold winds; it appears beautiful in the chamr of a foggy town, a peaceful village. Some photos taken by Truong Lan Phuong: Foggy morning at Sapa Church