Ethnic Culture | Sapa Nomad

Sapa traditional clothes look colorful at first glance — and confusing a minute later. Five...

Not everyone who comes to Sapa realizes this: the most precious things here are not...

When people talk about ethnic handicrafts in Sapa, they often think of colorful textiles hanging...

Vietnam counts fifty-four ethnic groups. The Xa Pho number only a few thousand people in...

Ask travelers where they stayed in Sapa, and half will say, Ta Van. Ask whose...

The road to Ban Ho keeps dropping — seven hundred meters below Sapa town —...

You hear the khen before you see it — a low bamboo drone that carries...

Everything about the Red Dao ethnic group in Sapa seems to start with the scarf....

Sau Chua Village is two or three degrees colder than Sapa, and most mornings the...

Sapa is cold and high; Ban Ho Village is neither. Drive thirty kilometres down and...

You will see them all over Cat Cat — visitors in borrowed H’mong dress, twirling...

The brocade shops in Sapa are where the region’s most famous craft actually changes hands...