Located 38 km away from the town of Lao Cai, “Sapa Hanging Garden” are detected by Westerners from the late 19th century. To come here there are three lines: one from the town of Lao Cai, one from Lai Chau go down and one from Binh Lu (Son La) by all types of vehicles such as trains, cars, motorcycles, horses car…
The weather in here is always cool. In June, in Lao Cai average temperature is 28 ° C, but in Sapa only 21- 22° C. At night, the temperature are lower, throughout the year have to blanket. In winter, with freezing night, white snow falling like apricots, plums blossom in the beginning of the season …
In spring, visitors can admire the rare beauty, that long-running forest trees of peach, overflows all through the town to O Quy Ho Pass, with excellent fresh flowers as a red carpet welcome visitors enjoy the spring. Spring in Sapa is the proliferate season, budding of flowers, full of orchids, gladioli, Dahlia … not just peaches, plums, pinks, apricots. Plants here are many types, beautiful and precious as po-mu,artichokes, viva, especially prickly pines, Hmong language called “Sa-mu”. In the collection of medicines in Vietnam, perhaps the medicinal plants are native and acclimatized successfully in Sapa, such as the trees: “do trong bac”, “xuyen khung”, “đương quy”,“cardamom”, “chan ga”, “thao qua”, “hoang lien”, “gau tau”, ginseng, angelica …
Sapa is also the land of many mysteries with the varity of trees inhabit on the top of Fan Xi Pan, and some birds, rare animals such as parrots, pheasants, peacocks, partridges, wild boar, bear… Recently, Sapa also detected a population of ancient stone along Tam Hoa streams with over 150 large and small stones. Each year, thousands of tourists come here to visit, there are also many foreign students go there to study, research, filming, photographing …