Situated about 15 kilometers from Sapa town is the green valley Muong Hoa, which is the homeland of minority peoples who inhabit and cultivate the land.
For a long time, the Mong people in Dong Van Karst Plateau have preserved a technique of casting a special kind of plough that is suitable for rocky soils.
In the rocky mountain areas of Hoang Su Phi District in Ha Giang Province, the ethnic people begin transplanting paddy seedlings after rain covers the drought-effected terraced fields.
On the way to Sapa Town in the northwest province of Lao Cai, Ta Phin Village located about four kilometers off the center of town is awaiting your presence.
Professor Vu Ha Van of Yale University, who is also a member of the Scientific Council of Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, has been awarded the prestigious Fulkerson Prize 2012.
Nguom Ngao, an astonishing cave with numerous formations, is the most famous limestone grotto in the northern mountain province of Cao Bang due to its distinctiveness and scale.