Sa Pa is a district-level town of Lao Cai Province in the Northwest region of Vietnam.
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11 Facts About Sa Pa
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Sa Pa was a frontier township and capital of former Sa Pa District in Lao Cai Province in north-west Vietnam.
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Sa Pa is home to more than 200 pieces of boulders with ancient engravings.
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Near to the now Sa Pa townlet is "Sa Pa commune", which shows the origin in Hmong language of the location name.
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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.
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Sa Pa was back on the tourist trail again, this time for a newly emerging local elite tourist crowd, as well as international tourists.
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Sa Pa is in full economic boom, mainly from the thousands of tourists who come every year to walk the hundreds of miles of trekking trails between and around the villages of Dao villages of Ta Van and Ta Phin.
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Sa Pa is a quiet mountain town and home to a great diversity of ethnic minority peoples.
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The unique climate in Sa Pa has a major influence on the ethnic minorities who live in the area.
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In 2014, Sa Pa ranked number nine in the top 10 rice terrace destinations of the world by SpotCoolStuff.
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People of the Sa Pa area have been very poor even by Vietnam's rural standards.
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