Are you craving to immerse yourself in the mountainous spaces filled with terraced fields in Vietnam? Lao Cai is an ideal place, few places can compare. Coming to this northern mountainous province, you can see the natural beauty and discover the culture in many places such as Lao Cai city, town Sapa to the roof of Indochina Fansipan… For a memorable trip, visitors should experience another trekking trip through the forest to the border region of Vietnam to Kunming, China. Green landscape in summer in Nam Cang commune, Sa Pa district, Lao Cai province. Photo: VNE In addition, the American newspaper also introduced more world wonders: Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Philippines; Red Lotus Lake, Thailand; Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia; Komodo, Indonesia… Recently, the world’s leading travel website TripAdvisor has just announced the annual awards voted by users for 2021, including voting for world-famous destinations. In this ranking, Hanoi capital ranked 6th and Hoi An (Quang Nam) ranked 11th voted by tourists. According to visitors, the charming capital of Vietnam has existed for thousands of years. Besides preserving monuments such as the old town, monuments and colonial architecture, Hanoi is still developing more modern day by day. “Hanoi may not have kept its previous names like Thang Long or ‘flying dragon’ but Hanoi has never forgotten its glorious past, such as the sites of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Hoa Lo prison proves it”, comments by travelers on TripAdvisor. Lakes, parks, shady streets and more than 600 temples also contribute to the attractiveness of this city, which can be easily explored by taxi. Meanwhile, Hoi An ancient town is rated by tourists as “a well-preserved model of an important Southeast Asian trading port from the 15th-19th centuries”. TripAdvisor voters also advise tourists when traveling in Hoi An ancient town “let the skilled tailors here tailor you a few clothes according to your own measurements”.

Ham Rong Mountain is located close to the center of Sa Pa town and has the lowest point in the South 1,450m, the highest point at 1,850m. Photo: Dao Nguyen Bui Thuy. Terrain with an average slope angle of about 30 degrees. Geomorphology is mainly exposed weathered casteur bedrock. Photo: Trung Duc. Red cherries on Ham Rong peak. Photo: Cao Minh. Around Ham Rong mountain, there are many different types of mountains, evergreen closed forests, with all kinds of green broad-leaved trees all year round and vines, dense bushes, mixed forests of broadleaf and coniferous trees… characterized by sparse forest, less dense, sometimes interspersed broadleaf grass. Higher than subtropical moist evergreen closed forest with sparse forest characteristics, few layers of coniferous flora develop. With the height of the mountain top, there are almost no trees left, only sporadic mountain bamboo (Dwarf Truc) and dusty wind blowing. Photo: Tuan_Nikon. The average temperature of Ham Rong mountain area is from 15 to 18 degrees Celsius, the average rainfall is 1,800 – 2,000mm, especially the climate is different with the appearance of frost and light snow. Photo: Dulichsapacungmytour. Ham Rong Mountain in Lao Cai province is a province with relatively rich and diverse potential for tourism development. Located in the tourist complex of Lao Cai province, Ham Rong mountain is considered as one of the places with great potential for tourism development and plays a very important role in the process of economic restructuring of the province. Photo: Vietravel. This is an indispensable tourist destination in the travel itinerary of tourists to Sapa. Photo: Dao Nguyen Bui Thuy. Coming to Ham Rong mountain, visitors not only enjoy the wild natural scenery of heaven and earth, but also enjoy the fresh and cool air of Sapa. Photo: Vietnamtourism. Visitors to Sa Pa cannot help but come to Ham Rong mountain to talk with rocks, with trees, with wild wind and clouds, to be immersed in the ecstatic scenery of creation, to live in a fairyland in the middle of the world. Photo: Dao Nguyen Bui Thuy. From a distance, Ham Rong Mountain looks like a giant dragon bending over, lying to the west of Hoang Lien Son range. The top part of the mountain is cleverly arranged by the “mother” of nature from the lifeless cliffs randomly, but creates a meaningful image. Photo: Thongtindulichsapa. The people here call the top of that mountain Dau Rong mountain because it looks like the head of a dragon baring its fangs towards the sky. Photo: Dao Nguyen Bui Thuy. There are many versions of the legend of Ham Rong mountain, but in general, these legends refer to the love, affection, and loyalty of dragons. Photo: Ngo Minh Truc.