Adventure sapa mountains

Brief history:

Sa pa is a frontier town and district in the Lao Cai province in northwest Vietnam. The town of Sa Pa lies at about 1600 meters of altitude. Sa Pa was first inhabited by highland minorities of the Hmong and Red Dao groups, as well as by smaller numbers of Tay and Giay, these being the four main minority groups still present in Sa Pa district today.

However, It was only when the French military debarked in highland Tonkin in the late 1880s that Sa Pa, or Chapa as the French called it, began to appear on the national map.

 In 1894-96 the border between China and Tonkin was formally agreed upon and the Sa Pa area, just to the south of this frontier, was placed under French authority. From 1891 the entire Lao Cai region, including Sa Pa, came under direct colonial military administration so as to curtail banditry and political resistance on the sensitive northern frontier.

Until 1909, the first permanent French civilian resident arrived in Sapa. By 1912 a military sanatorium for ailing officers had been erected along with a fully fledged military garrison.

Although Sapa was destroyed in the Second War by Viet Minh sympathizers and French air raids, it still remains the air occidental with about 300 villas, gothic church building under French authority. Nowadays, Sapa open the door fully to international tourism

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