Ho Village is located in Ban Ho Town, Sapa District, Lao Cai Province, 24km from center of Sapa Town. Ho Village can be seen from a favourable position in Sapa city but the itinerary from Sapa to the village is much farther and there is another life is lived there….
It takes about seven hours to walk to the Ho Village; therefore, tourists have to set off in the early morning. The village, whose centre is Ban Den hamlet, is a meeting point of Muong Hoa and La Ve springs. It has become an attractive destination for tourists, particularly foreigners.
Unlike the Muong Hoa spring that brings water to tens of villages where it crosses, the La Ve spring flows directly to the Ho Village from the high mountain. Perhaps, due to the reason, the La Ve spring looks more beautiful, more secret and more transparent than the Muong Hoa.
It is tremendous to swim in the very cool stream flowing out of the rock mountain in the middle of the vast green colour of forests. Not only the La Ve spring, has the nature given the Ho Village a series of waterfalls such as Ca Nhay (Fish Jumping) and Seo Trung Ho.
The Seo Trung Ho waterfall, over 100 metres high, looks like a white silk strip crossing halfway down the mountain.
Travelling to the Ho Village is not appropriate for those without ambitions of discovery or strong legs because it is really challenging to overcome kilometres of mountain and hill paths.
Ho villagers mainly belong to the Tay ethnic minority group, whose lifestyles are quite similar to the Kinh (Viet) people. However, they live in stilted houses.
The homestay tours have been attractions of the Ho Village. About 30 large and pretty stilt houses in the Ban Den hamlet are used to serve tourists. It costs a tourist only a dollar and a half to stay overnight in the stilt house.
Tourists have a chance to enjoy ethnic speciality dishes, fire dances and alcohol made of sticky rice or maize and will be waken up by wild birds to start a new discovery.