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Sapa adventure had us begging for more
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| Travel to Sapa - Photo by An Bui |
My husband had been nagging me to go to Dalat but I decided to shock him by taking him on a surprise trip to Sapa.
We took a five day tour from Hanoi and it is one I highly recommend. We firstly got the overnight train from the capital to Lao Cai Station where we caught some shut-eye in our cabin.
We arrived a little weary due to the bumpy ride but it was the first day of our trip and we were excited. A bus awaited us at the station and took us to our destination. We dumped our belongings at the hotel and quickly showered and had breakfast before we took a car ride along the gorgeous Muonh Ha Valley to visit the Rattan Bridge, the stunning silver waterfall and then visited in Giang Ta Chai village which is home to the Red Dzao tribe.
It was time to build up a sweat as we trekked through the forests of the Fanxipan range which was daunting but rewarding before we reached the Seo Chong Ho Village. Not many tourists reach this part of the area and we enjoyed a wonderful waterfall which is apparently the nicest in Sapa.
We rested up had food and were put up by a lovely Dzao family, who were so nice and even made us breakfast the next day before it was time to trek up another mountain to Ta Trung Ho village which is located 1450meters above sea level. Which was great news for those who suffer from vertigo like my husband, he barely survived. We had lunch and then headed downhill, thankfully for my hubby’s sake, to Ban Ho village to meet the Tay people and their stilt houses.
We had a little party and stayed the night in a stilt house before seeing yet another waterfall Lavie which was discovered by the French and then Supan village and finally back to the car and Sapa.
At last we got some time to ourselves to explore the town, buy some souvenirs for family, have a nice romantic meal and go for a stroll around. We were hoping to stay the night in Sapa but forgot we had to get a late bus to Lao Cai Station where out night train to Hanoi awaited us.
I wish we could have stayed that extra night as I felt our trip was just beginning. Oh well, maybe next time.
By Nga Phan
Source The Saigon Times .vn
Lao Cai: Hydro-power plants harms green tourism
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| A child in Sapa - Photo by An Bui |
Five ongoing hydro-power plants at key tourist sites of Sapa town, Lao Cai province, have made adverse impacts on the landscape, environment and daily life of local people in Ho, Den, Lao Chai villages and Muong Hoa valley. Den village, a tourist attraction, has been completely damaged because its La Ve waterfall does not have water. Ca stream does not have hot water.
Muong Hoa valley does not have much terraced fields. Mr. Dao Duc Tuyen, a Ho village’s resident, said that he had to give up his job as an amateur tourist guide two years ago because the number of tourists sharply reduced after the Su Pan 2 hydro-power project was kicked off. Because of this project, the road to Ho village has become very dirty. Tuyen said that before this project began, Ho villagers performed music shows every night, which lured a lot of tourists.
But these shows have not held in the last two years. In the past, Ho village welcomed tens of thousands of tourists a year but now it has several visitors each day. Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Lao Cai, Dr. Tran Huu Son, said that hydro-power development has broken the cultural space and harmed the environment.
As a result, benefit from tourism has dropped. Dr. Son said that hydro-power should not be developed in Sapa because this is a famous tourist attraction of Vietnam for a hundred years. Up to 19 hydro-projects have been approved in Sapa. In August 2010, Sapa authorities had to cancel all projects for checking, under the pressure from the public opinion.
Source Vietnamnet
