The majority of the town’s population is ethnic Vietnamese who live in nearby villages around Sapa, coming to town mainly to shop or to sell their products.
Ethnic Vietnamese from the lowland only migrated to Sapa in the early 1960s, with support of the Government program on migration.
Terraced rice fields in Sapa was ranked as the world's most beautiful terraces by USA Travel and Leisure Magazine
Fan Si Pan Mountain is the highest mountain peak in Vietnam and Indochina which is located only a few kilometers west of Sapa, and can be easily seen from the town itself.
Tram Ton mountain passes between Sapa and Lai Chau, located at nearly 2.000 meters (6.500 feet) is the highest mountain pass in Vietnam.
Muong Hoa valley has 196 strange carvings of the ancient inhabitants thousands of years ago and so far archaeologists haven’t been able to explain this information yet.
Sapa is the "kingdom" of the fruit with a large variety of wild flowers especially immortal flowers which live forever.
Sapa is one of the very few places in Vietnam to see snow. Snow tour is very popular among Vietnamese students.
Perhaps it is the only destination in Vietnam that you must ask for permission if you want to take a photo of an ethnic person.
Teenagers in Sapa speak foreign languages much more fluently than Vietnamese. It is no surprise that sometimes they do not speak national language but prefer English.
There is one Catholic Church in Sapa, which was built in stone in 1930.
Lao Chai, Ta Van and Ta Phin are the most favorite trekking trails. Thousands of tourists who come to Sapa every year walk hundreds of miles of trekking trails between and around the tribal villages.
Sapa appears on the national map of tourist fully in 1993, when all obstacles were cleared to welcome international tourists.
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