Nhan Dan Online – Sa Pa town is cool all the year, being compared as a giant refrigerator hung halfway of the sky, about 34 km from Lao Cai town.

It is a frontier town and district in the Lao Cai province in northwest Vietnam. It is one of the main market towns in the area, where many ethnic minority groups such as H'mong, Dao and Tay live.

Along the Highway 4D to Sa Pa, after reaching to Tac Co mountain Pass, it’s at once to recognise the change in climate, from a hot and muggy to a cool weather.

And many specialties can only be seen there. Come to Sa Pa to explore yourself.

A special way of selling goat meat can only be seen along the way to Sa Pa

Organic vegetables of Dao ethnic people and peach
of Kinh majority people are on sale on the road

Natural orchids taken from Fanxipang are sold as vegetable

A house full of woodland flowers

A poetic Sa Pa by Vien Xuan Lake

And it’s so peaceful, modern.

Banana inflorescence

Smiling highlanders