Ta Phin Sapa Village
About 12km northeast of Sapa town, Ta Phin still retains its rustic wild beauty. Coming here, visitors not only immerse themselves in endless nature, but also touch the simple daily life of the H'Mong people here.
The beauty of Sa Pa Ta Phin tourist village must be mentioned the eye-catching terraced rice paddies hugging the foot of the Hoang Lien Son Range like a silk strip. The purple mountains are hidden in the pure white mist, dotted here and there with a few stilt roofs and leaves among the green corn fields. All create a sense of peace, helping you get rid of the chaos of daily life.
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If you like to explore caves, Ta Phin also has Ta Phin Cave (locally called Ti Lo Cam). The cave is about 5m high and about 3m wide, the deeper it goes, the narrower it becomes, full of stimulation and adventure.
Sa Pa Ta Phin tourist village also has an abandoned Ta Phin ancient monastery built in 1942, which is an extremely attractive check-in destination for young people. The ancient mossy walls are hidden in the pristine Sapa forest, where the mist covers the branches whitely, each branch of flowers and grass brings a wild mysterious feeling like in the middle of a European forest.
Coming to Ta Phin, you can also discover the life of interesting local people. Spending the night at the house of a local villager, sitting by the fire to dispel the cold night in the mountains, sipping corn wine and listening to stories about the ancient stories of the village is just as interesting.
Ticket prices to visit Ta Phin: 20,000 VND/person
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Lao Chai Ta Van village
Lao Chai – Ta Van village is a Sapa tourist village located about 7km from the center of Sapa town, where the Muong Hoa stream calmly winds around the green fields at the foot of Hoang Lien Son, the residence of the Hmong, Red Dao and Giay ethnic groups.
Lao Chai – Ta Van is one of the lands that owns the most vast and beautiful terraced fields in Muong Hoa Valley.
You can visit this place all year round. Because coming to Lao Chai Ta Van is beautiful every season, each season contains different beauties. When the end of spring is patchy, the water pours like a mirror in the sky, in summer it is a dazzling green color, in autumn the whole heaven and earth turn brilliant yellow, and then in winter it is white with snow and dew. Each season, Lao Chai – Ta Van is beautiful in its own way.
The best way to get to Lao Chai – Ta Van is by motorbike or car from Sapa town. If you travel by motorbike, you can both enjoy the peaceful scenery and enjoy the fresh air and the sweet scent of the mountains and forests.
At the same time, when you have bought a Lao Chai - Ta Van ticket, you can also visit the ancient rock beach of Sapa on the way to the free version.
The most interesting thing in this Sapa tourist village is to stay at least 1 night in the village, so that you can fully feel the interesting pristine life. So that at dawn to welcome the warm morning sun dancing on the terraced fields.
You can stay at an ethnic house in the village, or choose beautiful and comfortable homestays such as: Ta Van Family Homestay, Ta Van Hill Homestay, La Dao Homestay...
Especially when coming to Ta Van, you cannot ignore the world-famous May Bridge across the poetic Hoa stream.
If you want to know how famous the bridge is, please see the article: 10 must-visit attractions when traveling to Sapa
Ticket prices to visit Lao Chai – Ta Van: 75,000 VND/adult, 50,000 VND/child (children under 1m are free).
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Cat Cat Village
As one of the most famous tourist villages in Sa Pa that cannot be missed when visiting Sa Pa, Cat Cat is only about 2km from the center of Sa Pa town. You can choose to get here by car, motorbike, or trekking. The ticket price for parking motorbikes in the village is 5000 VND/car. If your family has small children, you can rent a taxi from Sapa for about 150,000 VND/trip
To prepare for your exploration of Cat Cat, you should wear sneakers or soft-soled sandals that are convenient for walking.
Coming to Cat Cat, you will step out of the bustling town of tourism, passing through picturesque roads located between mountains and terraces. Cat Cat welcomes guests with fresh air, the cold is gentle like poetic autumn mornings. It will be best if you come to Sa Pa Cat Cat tourist village on a beautiful and dry sunny day to feel the clarity of Son Cuoc village with a different rhythm of life in the mountains and forests.
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The popularity of Cat Cat makes it different from other wild villages, but the rustic and special beauty of this place will definitely make you feel good.
The paved roads zigzag at the foot of the stilt houses, the gentle peach branches of the forest bloom brightly to announce the news of spring, and the giant water wheel is still working hard by the stream.
The residents are mainly H'Mong people. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the French discovered Cat Cat, where there is a beautiful waterfall in French meaning Catscat, which translates to Cat Cat. Since then, the village has its name as it is today.
At Sa Pa tourist village In addition to the houses located along the coal steps in the middle of the village, this place is also the meeting point of three streams: Tien Sa stream, Golden stream and Silver stream with Cat Cat waterfall throwing white foam. Next to the waterfall are two suspension bridges: Si Bridge and A Lu Bridge with many beautiful and shimmering photo angles.
Coming to Cat Cat today, you can easily stay at a hotel or homestay with prices from 150,000 VND to over 1,000,000 VND/night such as Mi's House and A Phu House, Gem Valley Homestay, The Haven Sapa Camp Site.
For those of you who want to venture out, Sapa CatCat Hills Resort & Spa, Sapa The Chill Garden & Villas, Hotel Cat Cat Galerie d'Art are just some of the amenities you can enjoy at sunrise over the village. Besides, don't forget to enjoy typical Sapa dishes such as: corn wine, cat apple wine, horse meat, buffalo meat in the kitchen...
Sightseeing Ticket Prices Cat Cat village: Adult: 70,000 VND/person, child: 30,000 VND/person
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Linh Ho Manuscript
From Sapa town, down to Ta Van Lao Chai about 7km, there is a Sapa tourist village named Y Linh Ho with a wild beauty that captivates people's hearts.
Y Linh Ho is a village of the H'Mong people with unique cultural features that cannot be confused. However, the village is located quite far from the main road, you have to take a relatively winding and zigzag road.
Therefore, Y Linh Ho is relatively quiet, retaining its pristine and rustic beauty.
The village is nestled in endless terraced fields, surrounded by thousands of green Hoang Lien Mountains. A place where visitors seem to be immersed in the harmony of nature's colors with the idyllic life of people.
Coming to Sa Pa Y Linh Ho tourist village, each season welcomes you with different beauties, which are the flower seasons and rice seasons one after another that brilliantly cover the road down to the village. All create surprisingly beautiful poetic pictures.
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The name Y Linh Ho originated from the name of the first man to publicly build a village – Mr. Le Linh Ho. It is said that, in the past, Y Linh Ho was originally a village of the Dao people. After a while, the Dao people left and the H'Mong people arrived in this place, but they still kept the name Y Linh Ho to commemorate the person who built the village.
To experience this Sapa tourist village, the best thing is to walk. Freely walk and explore the trails around the village, watch H'Mong girls weaving fabrics, babies with crisp smiles playing on the terrace, in the gentle sunshine, the cool fresh air of the mountainous region, immersed in the poetic and lyrical nature. You won't want to leave this place.
You can stay overnight at Y Linh Ho in homestays or resorts to catch the sunrise and enjoy this place to the fullest.
Photo: The Mong Resort Y Linh Ho
Sin Chai Village
Sin Chai is located right next to Cat Cat, is a Sapa tourist village only about 5 km from the center of Sa Pa.
The village is located right at the foot of Hoang Lien Son, completely surrounded by mountains with terraced fields that are also hundreds of years old. This place is the home of the Black Hmong people in Sa Pa. If Cat Cat is bustling all year round with the footsteps of tourists, Sin Chai is quiet and peaceful, like a hiding place for those who want to find a quiet wild Sapa.
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The most beautiful time of the year to go to Sin Chai is March, April – the season of pouring water, and September and October – the season of ripe rice. This is also the time when this Sapa tourist village is most visited, when you walk along the roads into the village, then relax in ecstasy in front of the terraced fields that are like a mirror reflecting the sun.
Or ecstatic in front of the golden rice fields like silk swaying in the wind. In December – January, if you come to Sin Chai, you will also have the opportunity to see the white snowy fields, feel the cold cutting the flesh of the highlands and then swoop right into the charcoal stove with a bowl of warm corn wine, enjoy highland cuisine.
Ticket price: 20,000 - 40,000 VND/person.
Photo: Trekking Sin Chai
Ho Sa Pa village
Ban Ho is located in the southwest of Sapa, about 30 km from the town center. As one of the tourist villages in Sa Pa that attracts tourists, Ban Ho has the inherent peaceful and relaxing beauty of a typical Northwest village. Here, you leave all the hustle and bustle of daily life behind and enter a peaceful place with beautiful and magical nature.
Especially, this place has a relatively warm climate, not cold to cut the skin and meat in winter like other places. The average temperature is about 18-25 degrees Celsius. That's because Ho village is surrounded by the Hoang Lien Son range.
This Sapa tourist village is the residence of the Tay, H'Mong, Dao, Giay ethnic groups... where the Lave stream and the Den stream meet, where the rice fields curl around and the low stilt houses on the banks of the stream.
The attractive beauty of a peaceful mountainous region in Ban Ho also attracts drivers who like to explore the wild scenery, like to experience the thrill on the steep mountain passes.
To explore this tourist village of Sapa, you can completely rent a motorbike or car from Sapa town and spend a whole day to experience this beautiful land.
Coming to Ban Ho, you can visit the jumping fish waterfall, where the stream fish are so crowded that it seems to be dancing under the waterfall. There is nothing more interesting than bathing in the stream, enjoying the cool beer cans brewed under the cool water and enjoying grilled fish right on the shore, in the middle of the wild scenery of the mountains and forests.
In Ban Ho, in addition to Muong Hoa stream, Lave stream, jumping fish waterfall, there is also an extremely rolling waterfall called Seo Trung Ho. Located deep in the heart of Hoang Lien Son with an altitude of over 100m, the waterfall looks like a white silk strip stretching across the middle of the mountain. A passionate and charming beauty in the middle of the pristine Hoang Lien forest.
As one of the famous tourist villages in Sa Pa, coming to Ban Ho, don't forget to experience delicious local cuisine such as wild meat dishes dipped with salt and chili peppers, lam rice, smoked sausage, sip a little more leaf yeast wine, and discover the typical brocade weaving of local people.
If you want to sleep back, you can rent a homestay right in Ho village such as H'Mong Mountain Retreat or sleep at a homestay at a price of 200,000 – 800,000 VND per night. You will definitely have an unforgettable experience with this land.
Ticket price: free
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Giang Ta Chai village
Giang Ta Chai is located peacefully with its wild beauty nestled in the mountains and forests of the Northwest. Preserving the typical culture of the indigenous minority, Sa Pa Giang Ta Chai tourist village attracts tourists with all its peace and tenderness.
Sa Pa tourist village Giang Ta Chai belongs to Ta Phin commune, about 11km from the center of Sapa town. Surrounding the village is a vast primeval forest of up to 50 hectares, 30 hectares of regenerated forest with extremely rich flora and fauna.
This place is the home of the Red Dao people in Sa Pa. Coming here, visitors will discover the lifestyle: how the Red Dao people in Sa Pa livestock and cultivation as well as other traditional crafts such as brocade weaving, silver mosaic, casting, forging, knitting and jewelry making...
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The best time for you to visit the tourist village of Sa Pa Giang Ta Chai is from September to March next year. From September to November is the time when Giang Ta Chai enters the dry autumn, the rice ripens yellow under the clear blue sky.
From December to March, it is the beginning of spring when all the flowers are in full bloom, and the branches of the forest peaches adorn the mountain forest. Coming to Giang Ta Chai on the occasion of the beginning of the year, visitors will have the opportunity to participate in many traditional ceremonies of the people such as the Tet dance ceremony "Put Tong", the traditional wedding ceremony with charming songs in early spring.
Discover the life of local residents, enjoy salted pork, stream fish, sour bamboo shoots... will definitely make you have unforgettable memories.
Ticket price: free
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Ta Giang Phong Village
Referring to one of the ancient lands where the Mong people reside, it is impossible to ignore Ta Giang Phong – an ancient village hidden at the foot of the majestic Ngu Chi Mountain.
As one of the ancient Sapa tourist villages on the border of the Fansipan range, Ta Giang Phong village is only about 28km from Sa Pa, but it takes more than an hour to go all the way.
Ta Giang Phong is the homeland of the Dao and H'Mong people. From O Quy Ho junction, tourists turn down the provincial road 155 paved with winding asphalt through primeval forests with white clouds floating and mountainous fruits sold along the way to Giang Ta Phan.
The name Giang Ta Phong in the local language means "a large land with sunshine". This Sapa tourist village is quietly located at the foot of Ngu Chi Son mountain with four seasons covered by fog, early sun, mountains and picturesque rice fields.
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Coming here, visitors will not be able to miss the journey to discover Ngu Chi Son – a majestic and pristine 2859m high mountain.
Attracting tourists to Ta Giang Phong are also the picturesque rice terraces - once voted by Travel & Leisure magazine (of the United States) as one of the 7 most magnificent rice terraces in Asia and the world.
Blessed by nature with an airy and cool climate, coming to Sa Pa Ta Giang Phong tourist village in spring from March to May, the morning is chilly, the afternoon is clear with warm sunshine and the cool and dry evening is extremely pleasant.
From June to August is a cool and fresh time in the midst of a vast green covering the village. This place has become extremely perfect for anyone to escape the sweltering heat of the city.
September to October is the time when the yellow color covers the terraced fields, with the light sun, the clear air of the autumn wind, will definitely make anyone who has ever set foot on this land.
Coming to Ta Giang Phang, this Sapa tourist village not only has a beautiful landscape that attracts the eye, not only delicious dishes that captivate people, you definitely can't ignore the delicious dishes from the specialty salmon here.
Near Cold Waterfall at the foot of Ngu Chi Mountain, there is also a very famous salmon farm. You can visit the fish farming area, enjoy fresh salmon processed right here or buy it as a gift for friends and family.
Ticket price: free
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Conclusion
Above are 8 famous Sapa tourist villages that have not seen the beauty of Sapa yet.
Not only nature, scenery, cuisine or people, coming here, you will feel the harmony like a wonderful symphony of this land. The place where you feel is really touched by a gentle, quiet but ancient Sapa, both majestic and poetic to the point of attracting the soul.
If you are still wondering about the most perfect schedule to explore the tourist villages of Sa Pa in the near future, don't hesitate to contact Migo immediately for the most detailed and quick advice.
Have a great trip to Sapa!
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