The Best 10 Things To Do in Sapa [NEW 2020]
You are planning to visit, explore and experience life in Sapa. But you do not know what to do? What to do to have an unforgettable trip in this beautiful land.
If you are wondering whether Sapa will give you the most wonderful and meaningful experience. Do not worry!
Best 10 things to do in Sapa will be recommendations for you to make you your authentic experience in Sapa, make an unforgettable trip in Northern Vietnam.
They are things that many travelers choose when visiting Sapa. These things are always highly appreciated and given top priority by visitors when coming to Sapa.
TOP best 10 things to do in Sapa will help you know what you have to prepare, what to do to make the best journey.
Check out Check out TOP 10 places should to visit in Sapa to make your trip more complete and wonderful.
Sapa Trekking Tour
Sapa is one of the highlights of Vietnam, it is known as “Da Lat of Northern Vietnam”.
Sapa is a small town located on the Hoang Lien Son mountain range. It has a cool climate, abundant nature and diverse culture.
Therefore, Sapa is always a tourist destination every time come to Vietnam.
When you traveling to Sapa and you want to explore this town. The best way to do it is doing Sapa Trekking Tour. So, you should make your trekking journey with a travel agency, check Hmong Tourism (One of the best trekking company).
You will do trekking to all the villages in Muong Hoa valley and around Sapa town: Cat Cat village, Lao Chai, Ta Van, Ta Phin village,….
Sapa town is famous for its terraces rice fields, perhaps this is one of the most beautiful places of Vietnam and even Asia. So, you walk the path between rice fields and also the great places on the valley on the way trekking to the villages.
On the way trekking, you will do trekking tour through villages, meet a lot of ethnic minorities. You will see the most beautiful terraces fields, nature scenery.
You will visit Black Hmong traditional house, enjoy ethnic minorities local food. Besides that, you will have opportunities to learn their culture, customs and wearing their traditional clothes.
The schedules tourists always choose to do trekking
Top do the one of best 10 things to do in Sapa, you should consider the schedule and points you want to visit. The famous schedules trekking in Sapa are one day trekking, two days, three days and four days trekking.
So, there are many differences in schedules. The long journey will help you discover many points and learn more about ethnic life:
- One day tour you will do trekking through 3 village and mountain, so you can see about 50 % Sapa overview.
- Two days tour you will trekking through 6 village, terraces fields, beautiful green bamboo forest. You can see 75 % the village and Sapa scenery.
- Three days trekking will take you to see about 85% Muong Hoa valley, visit 9 villages.
- Four days trekking, you will have a wonderful experience in all villages in Muong Hoa valley.
Best trekking tours to discover Sapa you can choose
Sapa one day trekking:
- Cat Cat village trek: 3 hours trekking to visit Cat Cat village;
- Explore terraced fields and culture: Trekking through terraces fields and learn about ethnic minorities culture.
- Red Dao village trek and herbal bath: Take you to see the beautiful landscapes, discover Red Dao village and take a herbal bath.
- Fansipan mountain trek: Conquering the Rood of Indochina, explore nature and ecosystem of Hoang Lien National Park.
Sapa two days trekking:
- Fansipan mountain trek: Conquering the Rood of Indochina, explore nature and ecosystem of Hoang Lien National Park.
- Terraced Fields and Bamboo forest trek: Discover Muong Hoa valley and trekking through bamboo forest.
Hope you have an unforgettable with one of best 10 things to do in Sapa.
One day as a farmer – Authentic experience in Sapa
Experiencing real life is the favorite type of travelers today. To better understand about the life and how the ethnic minorities in Sapa made terraces fields “One day as a farmer” is really authentic experience in Sapa to show you that.
This experience will bring to you a great and fun Sapa adventure. You will learn how to made terraces rice fields, how to planting rice in the spring, or how to harvest rice in the autumn.
It is an experience always expected by visitors. Currently, Hmong Tourism is very well organizing this experience in Lao Chai, Ta Van, Giang Ta Chai, Ban Ho and Ta Phin village.
The best homestay where you will have great experience is My’s Homestay, Ms May homestay,…
One day as a farmer is real one of best 10 things to do in Sapa if you have Sapa adventure.
Let contact us for more details and make your authentic experience in Sapa and make sure that you can do the best 10 things to do in Sapa town.
Experience at local homestay
The next on in best 10 things to do in Sapa is experience at local homestay. An opportunity to live with ethnic minorities and learn about their culture, custom.
Many homestays are built in Muong Hoa valley and Ta Phin village by ethnic minorities.
Each homestay is built in the style of each ethnic minority guide. They still retain the traditional traits of the nations.
Experience the liffe at homestay will bring to you a new interesting experience. You will participate directly in the daily activities of ethnic minorities.
You will cook local food, learn how to make weave fabric, make ethnic traditional clothes,…you can wear ethnic traditional clothes and join their fork game.
This is an interesting experience of best 10 things to do in Sapa. If you are a person love to learn about culture, challenge yourself and learn new things about the life.
Find out your experience with Hmong Tourism here.
Take a herbal bath
Take a herbal bath is great experience in Sapa. It made by Red Dao people lives around Sapa town: Ta Phin, Ta Van, Thanh Kim.
It can be said to be one of the best 10 things to do in Sapa.
The leaves of the Red Dao are one of the precious products of the Northwest. This nursing method has good value for patients with osteoarthritis pain, especially for women after childbirth (will help women recover quickly health, stabilize physique, minimize the loss of worn and damaged during pregnancy), helping patients improve health status, circulation, refreshment, fatigue, aches and pains.
Bath remedies must use many types of herbs. Usually a little more than 10 types of bathing, more than 120 types of herbs. Depending on the type of herbs, the processing is different. There is a new type of properly dried or stars dried for the best use results.
The visitors always leaves the good review about this thing and put it into the best 10 things to do in Sapa
Visit most beautiful villages
Sapa has many beautiful villages you can visit and explore the nature and culture in there.
Best 10 things to do in Sapa will bring you to ethnic minorities village, all of the beautiful village in Muong Hoa and around Sapa town for your Sapa adventure.
Cat Cat village
Located about 2 km from the center of Sapa town (Lao Cai province) and located under the majestic Hoang Lien Son mountain range, Cat Cat village is a long-lived place of Black Hmong ethnic people.
In addition to the beautiful scenery with terraced fields and Muong Hoa stream, Cat Cat village is built with additional infrastructure to serve tourism such as small stone paved roads through the village center, exhibitors of artifacts and labor products of the people, preserving handicrafts.
At the center of the village is the place where a French-built hydroelectric plant is located on Muong Hoa stream, which is now the place where local cultural performances are performed daily for tourists.
It can be as one of the best 10 things to do in Sapa.
Sin Chai village
Sin Chai village is located at the northernmost tip of Sa Pa district, about 4 km from the center of town, which is quite pristine and quiet.
Sin Chai village as well as other villages in the Northwestern region are surrounded by nature, in harmony with the fresh air, so it becomes an interesting new tourist destination to attract domestic and international tourists.
In Sin Chai village, visitors not only admire the rice fields, upland corn but also see the fresh beds of vegetables, covered with unique colors that adorn the scenery of this place.
Y Linh Ho village
The Y Linh Ho village is known by many tourists for its wild and poetic beauty.
The village is covered by the Hoang Lien Son mountain range, in addition to the mountain, the village also has streams, terraced fields, upland maize … Inside the village are houses made from simple and simple bamboo.
Y Linh Lake is one of the villages with an area spread over hillsides.
Currently, the village is divided into two villages, named Y Linh Village 1 and Y Linh Lake 2, each village has about 100 households of Black Hmong people.
Lao Chai village
Lao Chai is a village of the Black Hmong ethnic group, located 7-8 km southeast of Sapa town, visitors can come to Lao Chai from Sapa without spending too much time.
Coming to Lao Chai, visitors can meet and learn about the culture and customs of the Northern mountainous ethnic people.
Lao Chai is a village of three large villages with more than 100 Black Hmong ethnic minority households.
When you come to Lao Chai village, you will see the beautiful village and terraces fields in Muong Hoa valley.
Ta Van village
This village is located at the foot of the mountain in the Muong Hoa valley, mainly concentrated Black Hmong and Giay people and some other ethnic minorities.
Every time mention about Ta Van village, the visitors remember the beautiful terraced fields during the sparkling season as a giant mirror reflecting the scenery or the days of green young seedling transplantation and the whole golden rice season. The whole land is brilliant.
Ta Phin village
Ta Phin is home to the Dao and H’mong ethnic minorities, about 12 km from the center of Sapa town.
Ta Phin is one of the Northwest highland villages that attracts a lot of tourists, photographers and friends to explore and enjoy the wild and amazing beauty.
Ta Phin village not only has lush nature, the atmosphere is not good and cool, but also has many natural caves that contain many mysteries, mysteries and cliffs with strange shapes, glittering stalactites.
Visitors will admire the colorful costumes, enjoy highland specialties, bathe in tobacco and soak up the rustic life with the indigenous Ta Phin indigenous people.
Eat local food
One of the best thing should to in “best 10 things to do in Sapa” is Eat local food of ethnic minorities. (Read more here)
Fire Com Lam
Com Lam is a popular dish of the ethnic people in Sapa and Northwest, Vietnam.
It made by the local people as Giay, Tay, Hmong people and it is really a good dish for you.
Beside the charcoal grill, which sells baked goods, there are dozens of hanging rice everywhere. Fragrant glutinous rice is often prepared. The black, burnt-black skin, which had been removed by the owner, revealed the pure white coat.
Thắng cố Ngựa (The horse meat Soup)
This is a famous dish of Hmong people in Sapa and Northern Vietnam.
Because the Hmong live in the highlands and mountain regions with cold climates, so eating this dish will help to warm the body.
It is made from horse meat and organs cooked with upland ingredients: cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, …
If you travel to Sapa you can try it, but I want to let you know that if you do not try it before, it will be difficult to eat. Make sure that you want to do that thing.
Thit trau gac bep ( Dried buffalo meat)
A delicious dish made by ethnic minorities in Sapa. Initially, this was a way to preserve meat of ethnic minorities.
Gradually it was used to prepare this meat dish, they made thit trau gac bep from buffalo meat.
This is a specialty of the Northwest and Sapa, so if you travel to Sapa, this dish is a great local food should to try. It will make your Sapa adventure specially.
Wearing ethnic groups traditional clothes
One more thing in best 10 things to do in Sapa to make your awesome Sapa adventure is wearing ethnic minorities traditional clothes.
As you know, there are 5 ethnic minorities living together around Sapa. They are Hmong, Red Dao, Tay, Giay and Xa Pho.
If you have planing for Sapa and you want to make a meaning ride, wearing ethnic groups will be a way. So you can do Sapa trekking tour to the villages and try to do it. Or you can take a motorbike or taxi get to villages and meet local people, talk to them and experience their life.
The best 10 things to do will be help you have great experience at villages with local people. It will take you to find out the values of life.
It is really best thing to do for your Sapa adventure with ethnic minorities.
The art in wax drawing experience
Traveling to Sapa, you will have opportunity to experience making ethnic culture, traditional costume in Muong Hoa valley.
The art in wax drawing is a great experience in best 10 things to do in Sapa. It will let you know how the local people making their clothes and every motifs from hemp and indigo.
It will be an authentic experience with local expert at Black Hmong house. The best 10 things to do in Sapa want to bring you the value of ethnic culture and we proud to if you enjoy it.
Sapa trekking tour will take you to do the best 10 things to do in Sapa villages. You will experience with local people, they will help you and show you how to do it.
Conquering Fansipan mountain peak
The last thing in the best 10 things to do in Sapa is conquering the roof of Indochina – Fansipan mountain peak.
Fansipan is the highest mountain in Vietnam, also the highest among the three Indochina countries, so it is dubbed the “Roof of Indochina” (3,143 m) in the Hoang Lien Son mountain range.
The roof of Indochina has always been considered one of the best 10 things to do in Sapa. And it always be a places every visitors want to conquer when they have plan for Sapa tourism.
According to the local language, the mountain is called “Hua Xi Pan” and means giant stone protruding. Fansipan peak is a rendezvous for climbers and those who love to touch the sky.
The best time to conquer Fansipan is October and November, when the rain has ended but winter hasn’t really come.
Or February and March, when the weather in spring and rainy season has not come.
The best 10 things to do in Sapa are the synthesis of Hmong Tourism after many years of experience and trekking activities in Sapa.
Hmong Tourism’s Travel Guide hopes that the best 10 things to do in Sapa will help you make your great trip in the beautiful land.
If you have any questions about Sapa, Sapa trekking tour or if you want to find a professional local expert, do not hesitate to contact us.
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