Sapa's great for cheap accommodation. Don't spend your money there - rent scooters so you can get out and about.
Anonymous
Travel writer
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Sapa is a town perched in northern Vietnam's mountains. Even though it's touristy, Sapa is a still a great destination!
My suggestion
Put aside two days to hike through Sapa's countryside and explore the region's various ethnic villages.
Anonymous
Travel writer
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Sapa is the most tourist-focused town in northern Vietnam and remains the departure point for many hiking trails that offer unforgettable vistas of the mountains and terraced rice fields.
My suggestion
Don't stay in the town of Sapa but take advantage of its sumptuous surroundings!
I'd like to give an insight into Hué, a tourist town that was once an imperial city and is famous throughout the country for its food! But what tourists often don't realise is that there are numerous wonderful sites just a few kilometres from this town that are seldom visited but are nonetheless authentic and magnificent
Blue Hmong, Red Dao, Black Lolo... The ethnic minority groups living in the misty mountains of Northern Vietnam form a true patchwork quilt of different cultures. Going to meet them is guaranteed to be an intense trip that would only equal coming into contact with other ancestral peoples.