Travel Guide Sa Pa
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Sapa is located at an altitude of 1,650 m. Its name means "village of sand" (sa, "sand" and pa, "village"). The region, part of the largest mountain range in Southeast Asia, formerly known as the Tonkin Alps, is surrounded by peaks, the highest of which, the Fansipan, is 3,143 m high. This region, ignored until the end of the 19th century, is home to many ethnic minorities: Hmông, Dao... Sapa was "discovered" by a Jesuit missionary in 1918. Seduced by the mildness of its climate, the settlers began to make it a holiday resort. They built a church, hotels, an airfield, tennis courts, a waterworks, villas. They established road links with Lao Cai and Lai Châu.
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