December, when the cold winds blow in, is also the time to signal the Christmas season and the end of the solar year is approaching. Coming to Sa Pa ( Lao Cai ) at this time, visitors will enjoy a special space imbued with national identity and different experiences.
Winter tourist paradise
This Christmas, painter An Chuong from Hanoi decided to return to Sa Pa for many reasons, both to experience the cold winter days and to combine a "tourism and volunteer" tour like most tourists coming to Sa Pa this time. "I visited Sa Pa Church on Christmas this year in the cold weather below 10 degrees, but I felt the warm, solemn and meaningful atmosphere. The space around the Stone Church is more open than every year. I feel very happy and meaningful when participating in the Christmas ceremony at Sa Pa Church" - painter An Chuong shared.
According to Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Sa Pa town Hoang Thi Vuong, during the Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 holidays, Sa Pa has prepared many unique events to attract tourists to experience, explore the spectacular nature and experience the unique culture of Sa Pa.
From December 2024, visitors to Sa Pa will be immersed in the poetic space of the Oolong tea hills on O Quy Ho pass. The lush, sprawling green tea hills are dotted with tall cherry trees, blooming with brilliant pink colors, creating a beautiful picture amidst the white clouds. The 2024 Christmas space - the highlight of the holiday - will officially serve guests from December 20 to the end of the 2025 New Year holiday at the Sa Pa Ethnic Culture Park. Here, visitors can experience the white snow space of Sa Pa in accordance with the winter festival brand "Sa Pa - snow paradise".
The Sun Group leader said that, like every year, the “Christmas tree lighting ceremony” of Hotel de la Coupole is the event that kicks off the Christmas season in the foggy town. At the ceremony of the first international 5-star hotel in Sa Pa, visitors will not only admire the moment when the large Christmas tree is brightly lit, but also have the opportunity to enjoy glasses of wine, canapés and emotional Christmas melodies.
The hotel also organizes a “Gingerbread House Making Class” for visitors to enjoy the attractive aroma of freshly baked cakes. Under the guidance of the pastry chef at Cacao Patisserie, visitors create beautiful and sweet gingerbread houses by themselves. Sun Plaza Shopping Center, a famous check-in point of Sa Pa, puts on a new look for the festive season. At this time, colorful pine trees have been erected in the lobby area along with reindeer and wooden snowmen that have been completed.
At Sun World Fansipan Legend, visitors will experience a unique Christmas imbued with the Northwest. The highlight is the Christmas tree at the Fansipan Cable Car Station, made from thousands of Northwest purple corn and Sa Pa yellow corn, creating an extremely creative and lovely image that cannot be found anywhere else.
According to forecasts, this winter will have cold spells with deep drops in temperature, Fansipan may receive snowfall. Sun World Fansipan Legend tourist area also offers a special promotion with the Fansipan cable car price only 550,000 VND, bringing visitors impressive discovery experiences during this festive season.
Ms. Nguyen Thu Ha, CEO of Inter Bus Lines, a transportation business specializing in the Hanoi-Lao Cai-Sa Pa route, said: Responding to the largest tourism stimulus program of the People's Committee of Sa Pa town called "Touch Sa Pa - Touch the clouds" and to show gratitude to customers, Inter Bus Lines has launched a tourism stimulus program with many attractive incentives: Buy round-trip tickets with a 20% discount; prioritize preferential prices for students; free tickets for cancer patients, people with disabilities...
The beautiful town sparkles again
Deputy Director of the Department of Tourism Tran Son Binh commented: 2024 marks a challenging year for the Lao Cai tourism industry, with fluctuations in the world's economic and political situation, the impact of climate change, and most recently, storm No. 3 (Yagi), which has caused the industry to suffer severe aftershocks. Sa Pa is no exception.
But with efforts, in the last three months of 2024, Lao Cai tourism accelerated to welcome 1,691,097 visitors, an increase of 42% over the same period in 2023, and welcomed more than eight million visitors in 2024. Sa Pa town alone welcomed 4.4 million visitors, accounting for about 55% of visitors to Lao Cai province. This is a strong recovery of Sa Pa tourism in an effort to recover from the storm.
The above positive results were achieved because the Department of Tourism promptly advised the Provincial People's Committee to direct localities, tourism associations and tourism businesses to promptly and synchronously implement many solutions to restore tourism activities after storm No. 3. Along with that, the Department continued to promote tourism promotion activities and develop tourism products.
Less than a month after super typhoon Yagi, the Department of Tourism organized a program to survey, promote, connect tourism activities and learn how to develop community tourism in Yunnan province (China), organized the Lao Cai Brocade Festival - Cultural Colors; Topas Company organized the VMM International Mountain Marathon, coordinated with Hong Ha district (China) to successfully organize a bicycle race to conquer the highest artificial lake in Indochina.
To attract tourists to Sa Pa at the end of the year, the Sa Pa Town Department of Tourism in coordination with the Lao Cai Provincial Tourism Association launched the stimulus program "Touch Sa Pa - Touch the clouds" from November 2 to December 30, 2024. This is Lao Cai's largest tourism stimulus program in 2024 with the participation of more than 130 accommodation, restaurant and tourism service businesses in Sa Pa with product packages and incentive programs of up to 50%. Tourists coming to Sa Pa have many accommodation options, from homestays to high-class hotels with unprecedented preferential prices. A series of hotel locations such as Chaulong Sapa, Amazing Sapa, Le Bordeaux Sapa, Vuon Sa Pa, Arista Sa Pa... announced a 50% discount for guests booking directly...
Along with that, Sa Pa tourism also needs to overcome some limitations. Ms. Tran Thi Thu Hien from Vietnam Brocade Production and Service Company Limited reflected that currently Sa Pa has too few night tourism products.
According to her, tourists, especially foreign tourists coming to Sa Pa, often complain that they don't know what to do at night, except for dinner, herbal baths, and foot massages... While Sa Pa has many rich cultural activities, they have not been exploited as night tourism products.
As 2024 comes to a close, the severe hardships that Lao Cai in general and Sa Pa in particular had to endure from devastating natural disasters have gradually passed, and the misty town of Sa Pa, honored by the British Time Out Magazine as one of the 16 most beautiful small towns in the world, is sparkling again...
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