Sapa is an old French hill station, discovered and built on the 1940's, nestled among the Hoang Lien Son Mountains near the Chinese border. Situating near the tallest mountain range in Vietnam, it is possibly the most scenic mountain location in Vietnam. Sapa is well-known for many beautiful scenes such as Ham Rong Mountain, Cat Cat Village, The Heaven Gate...

Magnificent view of Sapa

Sapa is also famous for its love market, a traditional culture. The love market of Sapa is the place to find a partner to get married.

Love market in Sapa.

It's said that just over fifteen years ago, on Saturday, all young girls and boys gathering together at the love market. Young Red Dzao hill tribe used to come to Sapa to sing songs to the opposite sex. Girls sang the songs hidden in the dark, when a boy found them, and if they matched together, they disappeared into the forest for three days. Some of them got married after that.