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Sapa tours in the snow season. Trojan will see the harshness here. The image of snow began to fall over the poetic city of Sa Pa. White snow falls from forests, mountains, and hills to streets that make Sapa as beautiful as European winter that we often see in movies. But hidden behind those beautiful photos, what is the life of the people here? Before the cold of snow and ice, what do Sapa people do?
1. Anti-cold ways of Sapa people
The temperature plummeted, snow fell heavily making Sa Pa people think of many “moves” to prevent the bad cold. Initially 0 degrees Celsius, now the temperature in Sa Pa (Lao Cai) often maintains at minus 3 degrees Celsius, making the snow becomes more and more dense, making warm jackets, gloves, wool hats, and scarves. .. or ordinary warmers are not enough for the people of Sa Pa to endure the cold anymore, instead of big cotton blankets and heating bags, heaters, …
The houses with balconies all have to “catch” a large amount of snow and wake up every morning when people go to the snow to scoop snow, hot spray on the roof, balcony to melt the snow. In the farmers’ gardens, they still have to scratch the snow every day, beating the snow out of the nylon roof layer to protect the crops.
Sapa tours in the season, you will see the hardship in the lives of people, especially Sa Pa farmers is evident through motorbikes carrying lots of grass for cows and buffaloes because they are afraid that the days after snow will be completely covered. Some cars were covered by snow, causing the driver to bring boiling water to the windshield to melt the ice.
2. The kids in the snowy season Sapa
Under the cold cut of the snow and ice in the highlands of Lao Cai, the harsh “snowy land” of Sa Pa, people’s lives must have been volatile and at the same time dragging the lack of girls, boy this place. Many babies still only have sandals that are not enough to keep warm or worn clothes that are old and fragile. Before this snowfall, there were many campaigns, many voluntary trips of young people in Hanoi came to help and distribute warm clothes to the children with the desire to partially protect them during the colds winter.
However, there are limited people, there are still many families in Sa Pa who do not have enough warm clothes to fight the cold. But despite having to shrink in old worn shirts, the innocent and lovely smile is always standing on the lips of little girls, the optimistic boy in “snowy land”. For those who have more conditions, they will have an umbrella to study to avoid cold rain and snow, or they make their own heated charcoal stoves to bring to school.
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3. The beauty of Sapa covered snow
In addition to the images of the life of Sa Pa people in the cold snowy days, we also collected more impressive images in Sapa these days. Snow falls over the hills, small roofs, steep winding roads, … in Sa Pa to help visitors get beautiful photos like “heavenly west”. Through these beautiful photo frames, it is possible to explain why everyone is so eager to find this “snow land”.
That is also the reason why Sapa tourists this time more and more. How about you? Take 1 time to travel Sapa tours once in the snow season to love this land.