Sapa, nature and people

1. In our country, there is only two seasons: rainy and dry. As usual, the nearer the rainy season draws, the hotter it becomes. Two years ago, I couldn’t bare the suffocating and stifling heat of those days so I decided to spend my holidays in Sapa, a northern highland of Vietnam.
2. It was a small county in Lao Cai province, located at the height of 4000 feet from the sea surface, with the annual average temperature from 60 to 65 F. That highland geography was mainly mountain, which was the homeland of different Vietnamese minority races, such as: Mong, Tay, Giao, Giay,… Each of them had their own language, customs, culture, and they all contributed to a diversified vivid cultural picture.
3. Intermingling in charming peaches forest, located many villas in both ancient and Western modern style, which made the county have an appearance of a European town. Further to the west of Sapa was mountain Hoang Lien Son, where it was always foggy in the early morning. These na...