DestinAsian – August 01, 2019

85

Rice terrace views

on a Hmong-guided

trek through the

Sa Pa countryside.

FROM COLONIAL HILL

STATION TO BOOMING

TOURIST TOWN, VIETNAM’S

FAVORITE MOUNTAIN

RETREAT HAS RECEIVED A

MUCH-NEEDED INJECTION

OF GLAMOUR THANKS TO ITS

FIRST FIVE-STAR HOTEL. YET

THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THESE

HIGHLANDS IS STILL DEFINED

BY THE HILL TRIBES WHO

CALL THEM HOME.

BY JOHNNY LANGENHEIM

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES CARNEGIE