Sapa: North Vietnam’s Mountainous Heaven
Sapa is a popular but quiet mountain town in
Lao Cai Province, which is on the northern
Vietnamese-Chinese border. It is located about 350 kilometers northwest of Hanoi, on Fan Si Pan mountain, which is the highest peak in Vietnam! Sapa is very close to the border of China and is a part of the Hoang Lien Son mountain
range. When the French arrived in the Tonkin highlands in the late 1880s,...