Sapa named among Planet’s top beautiful places
PureWow, a US digital media company, has announced its annual list of the 50 most beautiful places on the planet and Vietnam’s Sapa is on it.
Sapa in the northern province of Lao Cai has been ranked 5th among the 50 most beautiful places on the planet, released by PureWow, a US digital media company that publishes women's lifestyle content.
“Sapa in Vietnam is the stunning mountain town sits just below the Chinese border and its famous with the vertical rice terraces of the Muong Hoa Valley,” PureWow wrote.
Seljalandsfoss, Iceland tops the list, followed by Torres del Paine National Park, Chile; Li River China; Manarola, Italy; Sapa, Vietnam; Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia; Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, California; etc.
Earlier, Sapa has gained the first position among the cool weather holiday destinations in Southeast Asia throughout the year, released by Channel News Asia, a Singaporean English-language Asian cable television news agency.
Located 350km northwest of Hanoi, Sapa town enjoys cool weather throughout the year – it rarely goes above 25 degrees Celsius and it never drops below 17 degrees Celsius even during the “hottest” periods between June and August.
“Your best bet for a chilly holiday would be from November to February, with average high temperatures of between 17 and 11 degrees,” Channel News Asia wrote.
Once there, you can enjoy trekking through the Hoang Lien National Park, and catching a glimpse of Vietnam’s highest peak, Fan Si Pan, as well as views of terraced rice paddies. There are also lots of highland tribal culture to be seen, at villages such as Cat Cat and Ta Phin, as well as in markets. It also has its own colonial history – French military and missionaries set up camp here in the 19th century.
Sapa welcomed nearly 1.5 million visitors in the first eleven months of 2017, of which more than 30% were international tourists. In 2016, there were 1.2 million visitors to the hill town, according to the Lao Cai Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Sapa, Vietnam. Photo: PureWow.
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Seljalandsfoss, Iceland tops the list, followed by Torres del Paine National Park, Chile; Li River China; Manarola, Italy; Sapa, Vietnam; Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia; Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, California; etc.
Earlier, Sapa has gained the first position among the cool weather holiday destinations in Southeast Asia throughout the year, released by Channel News Asia, a Singaporean English-language Asian cable television news agency.
Located 350km northwest of Hanoi, Sapa town enjoys cool weather throughout the year – it rarely goes above 25 degrees Celsius and it never drops below 17 degrees Celsius even during the “hottest” periods between June and August.
“Your best bet for a chilly holiday would be from November to February, with average high temperatures of between 17 and 11 degrees,” Channel News Asia wrote.
Once there, you can enjoy trekking through the Hoang Lien National Park, and catching a glimpse of Vietnam’s highest peak, Fan Si Pan, as well as views of terraced rice paddies. There are also lots of highland tribal culture to be seen, at villages such as Cat Cat and Ta Phin, as well as in markets. It also has its own colonial history – French military and missionaries set up camp here in the 19th century.
Sapa welcomed nearly 1.5 million visitors in the first eleven months of 2017, of which more than 30% were international tourists. In 2016, there were 1.2 million visitors to the hill town, according to the Lao Cai Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
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