When tourists come to Sapa, they can not miss the opportunities to explore Ta Phin – one of the most attractive spot of many tourists. From Sapa town to the Northeast is about 17 kilometers, visitors will be attracted by Ta Phin’s natural pristine landscape.
Ta Phin reputes with the terraced rice fields, streams, etc. It has Red Dao ethnic minority and Mong… Come to Ta Phin, visitors will know more about their customs, traditions and lifestyle of people. The traditional cultural activities of the Red Dao have been staging of performances for tourists such as: wedding ceremonies, “Bai Tram”, “Mua chuong”, etc. The Mong have vowed festival, rituals solutions and Gau Tao festival. The festival has the participation of the community, starting with the set up plants from 20-25 December and the main festival is the third and 4th January in order to blesses and prays for crops. The natural beauty and ethnic identity are the factors which attract tourists to Ta Phin.
Ta Phin Village is a village of Dao’s and H’Mong’s people. From headquater of the people’s Committee of Ta Phin commune to the north is 1 kilometer, there is a range of limestone mountain, a branch of Hoang Lien Son range. In the mountain, it has a small mountain; a height of gate is about 5 meters, it’s wide about 3 meters, which open a passage through the ground.
Coming to Ta Phin, you can see therapeutic leaves anywhere, you can ask for having a bath. Each time of taking a bath, the local people use more than 10 kinds of therapeutic leaves or nearly 100 ones. Red Dao’s people said that bathing therapeutic leaves have good effect for health, help to treat rheumatism, piercing pain in the bones and influenza. This is a reason why Ta Phin Village become a attractive destination of Sa Pa town. The natural beauty and ethnic identity of Red Dao’s people such as famous brocade are the factors which attract tourists to Ta Phin.
It will be a big mistake if you forget not to visit Ta Phin cave. The rocky bendy road will lead you to the miraculous Ta Phin cave which has a lot of stalactites of different shapes inside such as shapes of fairies in different postures of dancing, seating, a shape of giant paddy fields, forest,… Ta Phin cave is place which has many valuable place of research, archeology and sightseeing must be protected and remained.
Domestic and foreign tourists know Ta Phin because of its famous brocade village. Ta Phin brocade specialize in beautiful natural scenery, traditional culture through festivals and holidays of Red Dao’s people.
When tourists come to Ta Phin Village, they don’t miss to buy brocade curtains to give relatives as present.