Located 1500 meters above sea level, Sapa down the slopes of the mountains of Hoang Son, located 333 kilometers northeast of Hanoi.

Sapa has many natural sites such as Thac Bac, Thuy Cung Grotto, Wind Cave, Heaven Gate, and Bamboo Forests. Sapa is also the starting point for many climbers and mountaineers for scientists who wish to reach the summit of Mount Fansipan the highest mountain in Vietnam to 3143 meters. Also called the mountains of Hoang Son, the mountains are known as "The North Sea area" as the Fansipan Mountain is not only the highest peak in Vietnam, is the highest of the entire Indochina peninsula. The mountain is formed by a pyramid that is covered with clouds all year round, often, the temperature drops below zero, especially at high elevations. To reach Sapa, one can arrive by train to Lao Cai and then a bus takes you to Sapa from Lao Cai.

Sapa is also known as the silent city (Lao Cai Province). The best time to witness the scenic beauty of Sapa is in April and May. Before that period, the weather can be cold and foggy, and this is the best period after the rainy season. In April and May, Sapa is blooming with flowers and grasses are green. The clouds that are placed in the valley in the early morning quickly disappear into thin air in the morning.

Sapa's flora is diverse, ranging from flowers to tropical fruits, among the most popular fruits grown in Sapa are: apples, pears, peaches, and plums.

On Sunday, the minority ethnic Nung, Dao, Tay, Cao Lan, Paxi and the Phong Xa, which descend from the mountain with their colorful clothes for the Sunday market at the foot of Fansipan Mountain . The first thing you notice when approaching the city are the materials used in construction of some wooden houses that are separated from each other, others are hung from the top of the mountain or on the slopes of the hill behind lush pine forest that makes it almost invisible among the morning mist. 

Sapa, was first discovered by a Frenchman in the late nineteenth century. It soon became the most famous pair of Indochina its ideal climate. French officials of the colonial period ranged from Hanoi, including the port city of Haiphong and Hai Duong, were meeting in Sapa in the summers to escape the tropical heat. At that time about 200 huts and houses were built to separate the French colonialists. The villas were the most imposing of the sixth office, the governor general and the hotel Metropol, a subsidiary of the Sofitel Metropole Hanoi. 

However, even the existence of this small number of houses can attract the interest of visitors about the architectural design or by its French Gothic style of architecture with its doors and graceful curves of the entrance, which is similar to the old castles, arrived from the mythical European countries. 

Located at an altitude of 1000 meters above sea level, Sapa is the place where the climate is so cool in summer and the lowlands in the autumn, the temperature is uniform on a sunny day, you have to wear warm clothes for morning and covered with thick blankets in bed at night. Without advance warning of the short rains and heavy, once the storm of thunder can be started at noon or on any day of the summer. Then create a rainbow 

Sapa will be transformed into a magical land, which for years has been a constant source of poetic inspiration which extends throughout the region. Sapa has a number of families involved in the care and cultivation of flowers whose colors can not be found anywhere in the country. If visiting during the festival of Tet, the lunar New Year festival, the atmosphere of Sapa is filled with the pink of the peach flower, brought from the vast forests of peach just outside the city. 

Sapa is regarded as the kingdom of orchids. Here, the choice is surprising even to those who love the orchid when doing trekking through the woods you can see several hundred kinds of orchids of brilliant colors and fantastic shapes, such as the princess of the orchid, orchid shoe or call Mrs fair. Some orchids are named singers like birds, like the canary to sing, Salangane hierarchy, etc.. Not only bear fruit wild flowers also bear fruit in the gardens, which make the ideal Sapa outside the city, is the first mountainous area of northern Vietnam dedicated to tourism, this second area, the mountain city of Dalat in the central mountains.