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Dec 5, 2011

Eager to watch the snow in Sapa Vietnam

(Am 16.03.2011), small particles of snow suddenly fell on the city of Sapa Vietnam and some communes of Bat Xat district - Lao Cai. The weather is strange that many visitors from around the cross, especially the young, eager to show Sapa pulled back, hoping to see snow.
At Hanoi station two days, train Hanoi - Lao Cai always packed passengers. Ms Phung Thi Ly Ha - Ha Noi deputy chief of station said: Since the New Year, day Hanoi - Lao Cai is also crowded. Especially these days, with snow in Sapa reinforces the attractiveness of this land. According to Ms. Ha, this weekend, visitors to register to buy tickets to Sapa, "the city in the mist", a significant increase but still not happening state "fire" ticket. 


Currently, hard-seat Hanoi to Lao Cai to sell for 114,000 VND / ticket, while seated tickets are soft and the seats are 140,000 depending on location from price from 165,000 to 230,000 VND / ticket.
According to his Vietnamese Hoang (indigenous people of Sapa): In two days of snow, the Vietnamese in Lao Cai Sapa see a large flock. The rent car, car call from the top O Quy Ho pass moments to enjoy the snow fullest. However, many people were disappointed back because the next day, the weather in Sapa to rain and no snow.

After the "event" of snow, many young people eager to Sapa Vietnam in the hope of good fortune once to see snow. 


Although visitors are not overloaded as predicted by the original song recorded by VNA reporters, the status of "team reviews" at hotels, guest houses large and small, Sapa still occur. Double room at the average hotel in Sapa at this time if the day usually costs around 390,000 VND / room, recent days have increased by 5%.
At the tour company, weather snow does not seem to affect many of our customers as well as planned, pre-determined schedule. Most travel companies are organizing tours to Sapa program prepared in advance and not "run" the phenomenon of snow.
In addition to the tour in the plan, representatives of the Hanoi Tourism Company Redtours said: "From here last week without any delegation to the Sapa again. Audience they want to see snow often travel in groups themselves not go through the tour company. " 


Agreeing with the point of view, Nguyen Cuong - A tour operator in Viet Travel (042 Cau May, Sapa) said: The tour to Sapa largely already in place, retail customers to play mainly on holidays last week and the destination is the town of Bac Ha - a beautiful town and national identity intact with the Northwest market situation known.
Is no exception to the comments on Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai, director of external affairs of Fiditour said: "tour of our journey rarely run on the weather, there reasonable union is blessed with some coincidence, the right days with snow than usual, the number of guests must be over 10 people can be organized tour. Moreover, before the company must be prepared to plan and schedule specific, clearly, could not walk spontaneously and without preparation. "
In addition, according to Ms. Mai, who went to Sapa Vietnam in 1-2 days past most of these young people interested in exploring that those who like to explore usually go "bush", not like spontaneous travel retail in a group, take the tour schedule fixed in advance.

Legendary love fairy - Sapa Vietnam


Arrived in San Kingfisher Ho commune, town of Sapa Vietnam (Lao Cai) about 4km southwest and O Qui Ho Pass, about 3 km as the crow flies, sit drinking sweet tea specialties Sapa on red soil trail , panoramic away from being able to see the spectacular waterfalls thundering down from the height of 100 meters. According to the older part brocade to tourists here, then I trust that intense exploitation called White Bridge. Only when asked to name the operators love the new natives told me stories about the legendary bearing quality relationship between man touched woodcutter O Qui Ho and Saturday Fairy.
The story is that, O Qui Ho - the eldest son of the god mountain ranges dominate the Ai Lao - because human love shiny design makes the magic flute fascinated with the tone on the Hoang Lien omission should have the the practice to connect the father. Anger, dread gods have punished him turn into a regular, pushed down to where the waterfall on the White Bridge on plant structure, animal clouds, playing the flute. 

sapa vietnam love falls

Unexpectedly, the waterfall landscape that is where the fairies in the sky or down shower to enjoy the wonders allergic workshop place flowers on earth. Every bath, or exposure of her clothes on the smooth green lawn to dry waiting for the sun wearing. Once, at Christmas in summer, she discovered on the first Saturday cascade is a young woodcutter was sitting playing the flute. Flute of him murmuring as spring rings, such as birds tongues' sex has lost her soul, forget about all the way back upstream. University thousand cold night led her to the boy sitting next to the fire. That moment as the deposition space, noisy waterfalls to suddenly voiceless woodcutter flute guy dancing to the melodious, loving. From that day, too, Saturday fairy always linger O Qui Ho heard him play the flute until the last dark sky flying.
Some time later, her parents found out and not down to bathe her again. Remember him woodcutter, any fairy Saturday afternoon and the gate, looking down the waterfall to expect to see white silhouette of lovers and flute. Day after day, her sorrow turned into a gold bird flying around the mountain crest and took the call O Qui Ho has destroyed no end. There are also people from Sapa is called cascade waterfall love to remember the sad love story of the couple was handed a thousand years ago. 


French non-commissioned members and Mongolian girl

On the way to the extraction site, I happened to see "the forest" Tran Ngoc Lam - who spent nearly five years in the bear cave at an altitude of 2,800 meters on the top of Fansipan to treat cancer of wickedness. Hanoi saw guy by stupor on the legendary love story, Mr. Lam has invited me for tea in the forest wet with his thousand year old ancient to hear him tell about a special relationship between the XX century, really make the name illustrious extraction love. 

Mr Lam flute with type O Qui Ho architecture that he blew the old days. 
Tight structure to a body by one ankle to pour boiling tea, he slowly said: "The moment in 2007 when I was meditating on the top medical Hoang Lien mountain pass, where earth and sky meet, have a high Highway runs through most of Indochina, 2,022 meters high above sea level, the team came across a French mountain. In the elderly group had a beard hairs proved very popular euphoria of terrain and active place to start talking to me. My recommendation is that this foreign man is rumored deal Lieutenant final station Tram Ton - John Ri Nhong, escaped death on the country in 1949 when the Vietnamese Minh attacked police stations. He asked me specific guide to visit some places there have been many changes compared to the old military maps he had brought soft, sure memorabilia left over from the war in Vietnam.
From a Tram Ton Pass panoramic about 2km away, his old Lieutenant cascade just spray white tung asked me if I do not know the name of the waterfall. I said that the White Bridge waterfall. The old man shook his head said: It is much more significant, the French we call it love because it falls associated with a particular relationship occurred in 1943.
Then Chun Station station have a lower Senegal Graduate nurses who have a female name is Tom Mekong Basin. Yet his tall black African nhem because the original. Streams where streams meet Truva White Bridge is the village of San Sin Ho is a Mongolian man named Class A Wait. The old man lived with her 17-year-old daughter named sole U.S. Grade A, although A is the middle name of his son. Two hunters are very good father, as well as the U.S. A hand crossbow marksmanship. Officers at the station or bring alcohol to drink with barbecue by Mr. Cho and A for American hunters.
One day Mr. John Ri Nhong Attach A U.S. command saw panic uphill informed her father very seriously injured. Mr. John called Graduate shrimp go down. As to the U.S. A, they found him lying Thiem Wait card, tape closed with a calf indigo cloth. Shrimp off the bandage, it's terrible because bruised calf as the mortar for pounding stone. A My father said she was bitten by wild pigs. A U.S. says that when it shot down the pigs did not move to go to her father, the pig suddenly snapped up the leg. A U.S. must get a new knife to remove the pig snout. From that day down Graduate Shrimp bring medicine, food running down the U.S. A cure for the old man. 


The cascade mountains where fog always conceals the beautiful love story. 
About a month later, in a meeting officers and commissioned officers station, non-commissioned Tom hesitated to take A report for the United States as his wife. The officers and commissioned officers looked at him like a foreign object falling from the sky. Lt. Truva laughing after a hand on the shoulder toward Tom said: "You need something to marry, as they me here, just give your children a love of forest, then fed back to find other kids." Shrimp is quietly goes black but because no one knows his face go red or repeated, only that his eyes up and Truva long been a powerful punch fell back on the floor. After that event, Tom was detained 15 days, way down to the soldier. When the old man with a cane Class A for travel, the shrimp and the U.S. A hide away. Shrimp exports to bring "a". John Ri Nhong power of Sapa Vietnam and Binh Lu to two places to find help. Ten days later have to rely on people to report that Tom and the U.S. A waterfall in the forest with which he called the White Bridge. Truva roared leads a squad to look.
Whole day to hear gunfire in the woods, John Ri Nhong do not expect what happened. New Truva evening, taciturn not a question, give John a letter from Tom, great idea is not to shoot him and forgive Truva Lieutenant U.S. A criminal offense. Truva said both were dead at the foot of leaf fingers explored. Since then the French in the Tram Ton station operators call it love. Early in 1944 the wife's Truva brought up the mountain forests, lakes for boating up the sunny day. After saying this was Truva burial for two and planted a cross on the grave stone. "
Hoang Lien night deep forest to untouched. I'm sipping a hot tea to sip sweet acrid taste cells where the tongue slowly. Distance, operators still love white foam, roar sounds mighty like to reiterate the love story has been deprecated as far back as half a century old.