PERCHED high up in North Vietnam’s Hoang Lien Son mountain range lies the remote Topas Ecolodge. Hidden deep in the Sapa Valley it sits atop two cone formed hills with spectacular views across ...

But since the opening up of Sapa for tourism in the 1990s, home-stays and handicrafts have become big business. In 2020, the town is gearing up to welcome four million visitors as opposed to some ...

Sapa is located in Vietnam’s remote northwest mountains along the border with China. Many hill tribe ethnic minorities call Sapa home, such as the Black Hmong , Red Dzao , Tay , Giáy , Thai and ...

Sapa is one of Vietnam’s hottest tourist destinations thanks to stunning rice terraces and tribal culture. Now, the luxurious Hotel de la Coupole, designed by Bill Bensley, is adding another ...

The author on her bed during the overnight train to Sapa in northern Vietnam. Alexandra Karplus 2023-11-05T23:14:01Z ...

Sapa town in the Lào Cai Province of northern Vietnam is famous for its iconic rice terraces and also known for breathtaking landscapes. Terraced rice fields, lush valleys, and rugged mountain ...

Tourism in Sapa has a long history. The French colonized Northern Vietnam in 1883, and it remained part of French Indochina until 1954. During this time, when the colonists found the subtropical ...

I never thought that learning the beam would come in handy in a wet paddy field. But my childhood gymnastics classes paid off while crossing a rice terrace in the Sapa Valley in Vietnam. The ledge ...