Sapa Town

Sapa is a town in the highlands, is a famous hill-station of Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. It is covered by many wonders of nature, natural landscape and topography of the mountains, the green of the trees, making a painting with harmonious compositions, with romantic scenery and attractive landscape earth northwest region.

 
Sapa Town
Sapa Town
Church in Sapa
Church in Sapa
Sapa Trekking
Sapa Trekking
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Trekking
Sapa Trekking
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa tours by Car
Sapa tours by Car
Sapa Town
Sapa Town
Sapa Trekking
Sapa Trekking
Sapa Town
Church in Sapa
Sapa Trekking
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa Trekking
Sapa Rice Terraces
Sapa tours by Car
Sapa Town
Sapa Trekking


Location: Sa Pa town is located on the ground at 1,500 to 1,650 meters in the mountainside of Suay Lo Tong. The peak of this mountain can be seen in the southeast of Sapa, with an elevation of 2228 meters. From the town overlooking the valley to the east and Ngoi Dum Muong Hoa valley in southwest
Climate: Located in the northwest of Vietnam, Sapa town at an altitude of 1,600 meters above sea level, it is 38 km from Lao Cai city and 376 km from Hanoi capital. Apart from the main roads from the city of Lao Cai to Sapa, it also is a route to other traffic that is connecting Highway 4-D Binh Lu, Lai Chau. Although the majority of Sa Pa district residents are from ethnic minorities, the town focuses mainly on the Kinh people in agriculture and tourism services.
Located in northern Vietnam, Sapa has a subtropical climate but is situated at a high altitude due to cool air throughout the year. In summer the weather in town for one day with all four seasons: the morning is spring weather, noon weather like in summer, usually mild sunshine, balmy climate, afternoon clouds, and mist falling induce feeling cold fresh autumn air and the cold night of winter. The average air temperature in Sapa town is at 15 ° C. In the summer, the town does not have so much sun, it is about 13 ° C – 15 ° C at night and 20 ° C – 25 ° C in the daytime. In the winter, it often is cold, the cloud covers, and temperatures sometimes are below 0 ° C, sometimes with snow. Average annual precipitation is from 1,800 to 2,200 mm, mostly concentrated in the period from 5 to August.
Sa Pa Town is one of the places that have snow in Vietnam. In the period from 1957 to 2013, has 21 times with the snow in Sapa. The biggest snowfall was on February 13, 1968, continuously from 3.00 am to 2.00 PM, it was with the thick of 20 cm.

History: 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 measurements mapping expedition geography of Indochina Department discovered the landscape of Sa Pa Tung Village. This work marked the launch 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. In 1909 a built resorts. 1917, a tourist office was established in Sapa and a year later, the French began to build the first villas. In 1920, the railway Hanoi – Lao Cai accomplished, Sapa is considered the summer capital of North Vietnam. In total, the French had built nearly 300 villas in Sapa.
Sapa devastated by the border war in Vietnam – China 1979. Thousands of hectares of pine forests covering the town were burned, many ancient villas were built by France also destroyed. In the 1990s, Sapa was built, rebuilt again. Many hotels, the newly built villa. From the 40 rooms in 1990, up to 300 rooms in 1995. In 2003, Sapa has about 60 large & small hotels with 1,500 rooms. The number of tourists coming to Sapa increased from 2,000 visitors in 1991 to 60,000 in 2002.

Sapa name: Sapa’s name is derived from Mandarin. In Mandarin pronounced SA PẢ or “Sand" because of Sapa town is here only a sand ground where was local people often used for the marketplace.

Day: 01

Hanoi night train to Sapa, Lao Cai province

  • We pick you up from Hotel and transfer you to Hanoi train station,
  • Getting on night train and departure for Lao Cai province

Inclusion: Night train tickets, Tour guide, Transfer from Hanoi to Lao Cai station

Day: 02

Lao Cai – Sapa, trek to Ta Van village (B, L, D)

  • After the night experience night train, we arrive at Lao Cai station in the early morning, and then we take 45 minutes for driving up to Sapa town.
  • After breakfast & a short morning break and have some last preparation for the trekking to villages.
  • We leave the hotel and start easy trekking through the hill-tribe villages, green valleys, rice terraces and have a picnic lunch en trekking track.
  • Keep trekking to Ta van village where is the home of the Giay People. We will be warmly welcomed by locals and check in the homestay and overnight with experienced nighttime here.

Inclusion: Breakfast; lunch; dinner, Homestay in Ta VanEntrance fee; Tour guidePrivate air-conditioned vehicle pick up from Lao Cai train station to Sapa town

Day: 03

Easy trekking to villages & Return to Sapa (B, L)

  • After breakfast, we keep the easy trekking through the rice terrace track to Giang Ta Chai village where is home of Red Dao people, and then to Su Pan village where the vehicle is awaiting for transferring back to Sapa town.

  • The afternoon time is free at leisure and explore Sapa town by self

  • Hotel overnight in Sapa town

Inclusion:  Breakfast; Entrance fee; Tour guidePrivate air-conditioned vehicle pick up from Su Phan village back to Sapa town, Hotel in Sapa

Day: 04

Sapa – Cat Cat Village- Lao Cai station (B, L)

  •  After lunch, take a 2km short easy trekking to Cat Cat Village, the home of Hmong Ethnic. Meeting & talking with locals to learn more about their daily life. The bus/van pick up and transfer back to the hotel.
  • Leave Sapa by Bus in the late afternoon (5.30 p.m.) to Lao Cai station for our night train back to Hanoi.

Inclusion:  Breakfast;  Entrance fee; Tour guidePrivate air-conditioned vehicle pick up from Cat Cat village back to Sapa town and transfer to Lao Cai station and Night train tickets to Hanoi.

TOUR INCLUSIONS and EXCLUSIONS

What’s included in this trip

  • Full transportation by private car  as tour program indicated.
  • Round trip night train from Hanoi to Lao Cai to Hanoi
  • Full meals as indicated in the itinerary.
  • Trekking in Sapa
  • English- speaking guide
  • Entrance fees.
  • Twin-share accommodation with daily breakfast; ( AC room).

What’s excluded in this trip

  • Personal insurance
  • Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc.
 
Hotels in Sapa Homestays in Sapa
Ranana

You feel like organized tour, but you are in a privet tour. Impress Travel make the different.

We went on a private trip to Vietnam and Cambodia, the whole trip plan was organized for us by the Impress Travel Company from Vietnam, the company did an amazing job, the whole trip was organized in a wonderful way with an amazing match between the various parties, their choices were correct and the quality of the hotels chosen were very high quality and it is important to note that the price was low in comparison To other agencies, thanks to Impress Travel and especially to Daniel who was tolerant and open to changes and organized the route for us.

Ebrahim

Tour of Vietnam

Impress travel were amazing. Did my bookings with Daniel for our tour of Vietnam and I must say Daniel was very professional and prompt with his services. All the arrangement, plans, pick-up & drop-off services, hotels, vehicles, sightseeing tours and guides were spot on and excellent. Did 4 nights Hanoi, 1 night Hà Long Bay cruise, 3 nights Hoian, 4 nights Saigon and 1 night in Can Tho. It was totally awesome. Every part of the journey was superbly arranged and planned. I will highly recommend Impress Travel for anyone interested in visiting Vietnam. Very organized and reliable!

Solly Pochee

The tour was fantastic

I booked with Impress Travel in July. My contact person was Tommy Thang. He is an amazing person. He was very helpful. He changed my program twice for me. Very accommodating!
We started our holiday in the north (Sapa)of Vietnam and travelled down to HCMC.
The tour was fantastic, Tommy's arrangements were to the"T".
I will always use them if I have to visit the area again and recommend them to one and all.
Thank you once again Mr.Tommy and the Impress Team.
Sulaiman Pochee

Bernard Lim

Great value for money with 4 stars hotel

Great value for money with 4 stars hotel accommodation for 4 couples. The tour guide has been very helpful and brought us to amazing places in Sapa. We want to thanks Thuy the tour guide and especially Mark from Impress Travel for his great service and assurance throughout our trip. We’ll definitely use his service for other tour packages in other parts of Vietnam.

Derek.Schooling

We enjoyed our holiday with Impress travel

This is the second time we travel to Vietnam with IMPRESS Travel. First time, we booked our holiday to Hanoi, Halong Bay & Sapa during Dec 2018 with Impress.
Second time, we travel to Hoi An, Hue & Danang (Central Vietnam) during Jan 2019.

My friends & I are very glad & happy with all the hotels stay in Central Vietnam, the meals provided are delicious. We are greatly appreciated with all the tour arrangement by Tommy & his team (tour guide).
Especially, Mr. NHAT C.V. He is helpful, cheerful, knowledgeable and very professional. He always volunteer to take a nice pictures for six of us (group) .

We enjoyed our holiday with Impress travel. We will definitely come back to Vietnam again with Impress

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