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Sapa is a beautiful place located in the northern mountains of Vietnam. It is surrounded by local villages which are home of many ethnic minorities. That’s why Sapa has a distinct and unique culture which attracts many visitors.
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If you want a different way to discover this wonderful, you should choose trekking to Sapa. Or you can get there by bus, by train, by car,…..but with the advantages of low cost savings and excellent quality, a bus is always the best choice for tourists when they tend to travel to this ancient city. Here is some suggestion for you about where to go in Sapa without trekking.
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Where to go trekking in sapa without a guide?
Fansipan Peak by Cable Car
Located at an altitude of 3,143m above sea level, in the Hoang Lien Son range, Fansipan peak is always the most attractive tourist destination in Sapa. From Sun Plaza, you can experience Muong Hoa train to Hoang Lien station, then take 15-20 minutes by cable car to Fansipan station. From here, you can choose one of two ways to walk 600 steps or buy a train ticket to conquer the top of the mountain easily.
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During the journey to the top of Fansipan, you and your loved one will be able to cross the beautiful Muong Hoa valley, admire the entire majestic Northwest nature from an impressive height, explore the cultural-spiritual tourism complex Check in at the landmark “roof of Indochina”.
Coming to Fansipan in the spring, couples often come to pray for peace at spiritual places and watch flowers bloom all over the mountains as beautiful as a fairyland. Entering summer, this place is full of colors with azaleas, ancient roses, sunflowers, hydrangeas, … In the fall, the couple will have the opportunity to see the ripe rice season covered with golden colors. Or especially, in the winter, try to catch the snowfall with your lover at Fansipan peak – a romantic experience with 1-0-2 that can’t be found anywhere else.
Address: Sapa town, Lao Cai (go from the 1st floor of MGallery hotel – Sun Plaza).
Operating hours: 8:00-17:00 (Monday to Friday) and 8:00-18:30 (Saturday to Sunday)
Fansipan Hiking 1 Day
- 1 day fansipan experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Visit Fansipan, highest mountain of Indochina
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Fansipan Trekking 2 Days
- 2 days 1 night fansipan experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Visit Fansipan, highest mountain of Indochina
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
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Cat Cat village
Located between the vast mountains and forests, Cat Cat village has a rustic beauty with wooden houses next to a murmuring stream. The typical brocade color of the highland ethnic people is also filled with space: in costumes, decorations, or craft stalls.
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From the entrance, you will follow the bustling paved road, breathe in the fresh air, and admire the simple upland lifestyle on both sides of the road. The deeper you go to the center of the village, the giant watermills, bamboo bridges, Hoa stream and romantic Silver waterfall will gradually appear, making the couple admire by the wild and peaceful beauty.
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In particular, on the premises of the village, you can stay or visit Gem Valley – a homestay cum cafe with a costly valley view. Ordering a warm drink, and chatting with your lover in the vast scenery of heaven and earth, it is a Sapa travel experience for a very romantic couple!
Check-in Cat Cat village, don’t forget to “invest” in renting a H’mong costume at the shops at the entrance to own a super cute couple photo album in the Northwest style!
Address: San Sa Ho, Sapa, Lao Cai.
Ticket price: 70,000 VND/adult and 35,000 VND/child.
Ta Phin village
Ta Phin village is a village of the Red Dao people, famous for its handicrafts with brocade motifs, relaxing cigarette bathing services and beautiful and mysterious check-in locations. Follow the trail along the side of the mountain, you will be surprised with the scene of terraced fields stretching down to the valley, beautiful and peaceful.
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Going deeper into the village, MoMo suggests you should not miss the hottest check-in spot for couples at Ta Phin – a monastery in Western architecture with moss-covered cliffs. And if the couple is a believer in adventure journeys, please invite both of you to explore Ta Phin cave with a deep heart. Surely it would be best if you were amazed with the countless giant stalactites molded by the hands of Mother Nature.
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In the first days of the year, Ta Phin people also celebrate the “Tet dance” festival with many unique cultural activities, which is worth adding to the list of must-experience city couples.
Address: Ta Phin Commune, Sapa, Lao Cai.
Ticket price: 20,000 VND/person.
Ta Van village
About 11km from Sapa town, Ta Van village is not crowded and bustling but only has vast nature and a slow and simple village life. Coming here, you and your loved one must visit the rudimentary shacks on the hillside to enjoy the view of the most beautiful terraced fields in the Northwest or spend time walking in the middle of the sea of rice, immersing yourself in heaven and earth.
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Not only that, Ta Van also owns the typical old houses of the Giay people – where the historical beauty and cultural life of the ethnic people have been preserved since the beginning. In addition, other interesting activities such as playing in the water, virtual living at the May Bridge crossing over Muong Hoa stream, enjoying the local life at homestays, or enjoying mountain specialties… are also extremely worth the experience. That’s it!
Address: Ta Van Commune, Sapa, Lao Cai.
Ticket price: 75,000 VND/person.
Sapa 1 Day Tours
- 1 day experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Rice fields, valleys & villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 2 Day Tours
- 2 days 1 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valleys, rice fields and villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 3 Day Tours
- 3 days 2 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valley, rice fields & villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 4 Day Tours
- 4 days 3 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valleys, rice fields & villages
- Private tours – Less Touristic
- Vegan-friendly
Rose Valley
Spreading over an area of 22 hectares, Sapa rose valley is an ideal dating spot for couples. You will be lost in a maze filled with flowers and admire with your own eyes a colorful rose forest with many different flower varieties from Italy, France, America, … divided into straight streams.
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Called the Valley of Roses, but the people here also grow plum flowers, peach blossoms, almonds, … creating a diverse flower forest, emitting a fragrant scent to the sky. And if the two of you have a need to stay overnight, the Sapa tourist destination for this couple also has 11 stilts for tourists located between the flower gardens, towards the Lao Chai valley – a beautiful location to visit. catch the sunrise and sunset in the highlands.
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The ideal time to visit the rose valley is before noon, when the dew has just melted and the flowers bloom most beautifully of the day. Holding hands with the one you love, walking in the romantic space, listening to the birdsong and the gentle wind, … will surely be one of the memorable memories in the trip to warm up the feelings of the couple.
Address: ATI Ecotourism Area, Muong Hoa, Sapa, Lao Cai.
Ticket price: 70,000 VND/person and free for those who book at ATI.
Sapa Heaven Gate
To reach Sa Pa Heaven Gate, you will have to travel a rather zigzag road 18km long, conquer the O Quy Ho pass, but in return, the result will be well worth it when you touch the clouds at an altitude of 2,000 m. Standing at the gate of heaven, your vision will cover the whole majestic valley, green terraces, Silver waterfall in the distance; All create a picture of nature that makes you admire forever.
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The two times when the sky gate is most crowded with tourists is early in the morning for cloud-hunting trips to catch the dawn and late in the afternoon to watch the sunset on the village. Surrounded by fog, bright sunlight, and magnificent nature will definitely create a virtual live background with 1-0-2. And MoMo revealed it, it is said that if couples watch the sunset together here, they will be together for life!
Address: San Sa Ho, Sapa, Lao Cai.
Ticket price: Free.
Ham Rong mountain
Ham Rong Mountain impresses visitors by its peak formed by stacked rocky outcrops, which at first glance looks like a dragon’s head towards the blue sky. Taking advantage of nature, this place is developed into an eco-tourism area, including 3 main areas: Ham Rong flower garden, Thach Lam rock garden and Ham Rong peak.
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From the entrance, the first place is a flower garden stretching all colors with a different blooming flower each season. Next, you move to Thach Lam rock garden, built as a mysterious labyrinth with cliffs of all sorts of strange shapes, lying close together like the claws and scales of a giant dragon. Follow the climbing trail for another 1km, you will reach the top of Ham Rong and capture the whole town of Sa Pa in sight. Standing here, taking a breath of fresh air, all the fatigue of the trip seems to be dispelled.
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According to legend, Ham Rong mountain is the embodiment of a dragon who is waiting for her husband after being separated by the great flood. Up to now, with this story, this mountain is still considered a symbol of faithful and romantic marriage.
Address: Sapa, Lao Cai.
Ticket price: 70,000 VND/adult and 20,000 VND/child.
Operating hours: 7:00-18:00
Sapa 1 Day Tours
- 1 day experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Rice fields, valleys & villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 2 Day Tours
- 2 days 1 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valleys, rice fields and villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 3 Day Tours
- 3 days 2 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valley, rice fields & villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 4 Day Tours
- 4 days 3 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valleys, rice fields & villages
- Private tours – Less Touristic
- Vegan-friendly
Coc San Cave
As a tourist destination still quite strange to tourists, Coc San Cave will bring a whole new experience in the Sapa trip for the couple. About 30 km from the center, Coc San is the most extensive system of stalactite caves and waterfalls in the fog town, bringing unspoiled beauty and potential to develop into a new eco-tourism area.
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Here, the two of you can challenge trekking and explore caves with strangely shaped stalactites eroded by water into images of trees, animals, … extremely vivid. After the climb, watching the white waterfall and playing in the cool stream will help the couple temporarily forget the dusty city and relax in the fresh natural space.
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The most beautiful time of the day is in the morning, when the sun shines through each rock, shining into the cave. Each blade of grass and bushes soaked with early morning dew also makes the scene very clear and beautiful.
Address: Coc San Commune, Bat Sat, Lao Cai.
Ticket price: Free.
Love market
Sapa love market is a market of the Dao people, held every Saturday at the ancient church area with many unique indigenous cultural activities. Bustling from the afternoon, the beautiful girls will put on costumes with embroidered flowers, colorful brocades, red scarves and pretty stone jewelry. The boys will wear indigo shirts, scarves, watches and hang on their shoulders a cassette to record a confession song.
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At the Sapa tourist destination for this couple, you will not be able to take your eyes off of the traditional dances, the songs of the relationship, and the moments when young men and women date and exchange love items. Not just a place to find a life partner, the love market is also a place to buy and sell goods, connect friendships and exchange cultures of different ethnic groups.
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If you have had the opportunity to stop in Sapa for a love market, why don’t you join your “other half” in this romantic atmosphere and experience the unique Northwest culture for yourself?
Address: Stone Church area, Sapa, Lao Cai
Ticket price: Free
Operating hours: 18:00-24:00.
There are many other villages you can visit while you are in Sapa. Most of them are a little bit far away from Sapa town and require you more days. If you have interesting about these, contact us right now to book tour of Sapa with the best promotion!
Sapa 1 Day Tours
- 1 day experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Rice fields, valleys & villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 2 Day Tours
- 2 days 1 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valleys, rice fields and villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 3 Day Tours
- 3 days 2 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valley, rice fields & villages
- Private tours
- Vegan-friendly
Sapa 4 Day Tours
- 4 days 3 night experience
- Moderate to challenging
- Cultural immersion & active adventure
- Mountains, valleys, rice fields & villages
- Private tours – Less Touristic
- Vegan-friendly
