On the way to conquer Fansipan Mount in Sa Pa Town, tourists will be surprised and admired at thousands of rose bushes from both local and foreign types. The roses bloom in various colors and sizes right at Fansipan cable car station.
Sa Pa is home to various kinds of flowers thanks to its favorable weather conditions all year round.
Visitors to Sa Pa in the summer will see bougainvillea with many colors brilliantly grown along streets. Sa Pa is not only impressive with five-color bougainvillea but also azalea gardens covering the hillside. But rose is still the most popular and favored by tourists.
Ancient roses have become a Sa Pa’s brand
The rose paradise in Sa Pa lies in the garden at the Fansipan cable car station. In the past, Fansipan attracted tourists thanks to the desire to conquer the 3,143m high mountain. Nowadays tourists are not only motivated by the height but also the beauty of the garden covering thousands of square meters with thousands of unique rose bushes. Some bushes have flowers as big as a bowl of rice. Others are outstanding with small clusters of crimson flowers. The flower colors vary from white, red, yellow to unique dark purple.
Visitors feel peaceful enjoying the rose’s pleasant fragrance and the cool climate of the highland region located at the height of above 1,500m
Many tourists are quite surprised and excited when they get lost in the vast Fansipan rose garden. If you don’t rush to the top of Fansipan, you are advised to spend an hour taking photos at the garden because it is hard to find a place with so many beautiful and strange varieties of roses like this.
Many beautiful and strange varieties of roses are grown at Fansipan Rose Garden
The garden has a specific area for foreign roses which are big and have unique colors.
There is also a separate area for climbing roses with a high flower trellis above the head and many beautiful small flower clusters. There is also an area for local roses like white roses, velvet roses that give off fragrant aroma.
A cluster of imported roses with the height of nearly 1.5m
This flower variety produces small flowers, blooming in clusters
Sa Pa is famous for its ancient rose variety which is grown by many gardeners, both to attract tourists and to send to other regions to meet demand. However, the ancient roses are not always adaptable to other lands, only blossom well in the all-year-round cool climate like Sa Pa.
An ideal tourist destination that should not be missed in Sa Pa
Sa Pa ancient roses have numerous varieties such as climbing roses grown by many gardeners to cover roofs and eaves. Visitors to Sa Pa in the spring will see climbing roses blooming on the roof, looking like a carpet of bright red flowers from afar. Climbing roses usually have small flowers, blooming in clusters, but the color is dark and the scent is very fragrant.
Climbing roses cover the eaves of Sa Pa’s Romantic Rose Garden
Every rose garden in Sa Pa has its own varieties and design style to give the garden its unique beauty. About 10km from Sa Pa Town, romantic rose garden is located right on the road leading to O Quy Ho pass. It is quite convenient for visitors to find the garden. The 2-hectare garden impresses visitors right at the entrance with a porch covered by climbing dark red roses. Stepping through the gate, tourists can enjoy a series of ancient roses in white and velvet colors. The garden owner plants roses at the whole 2-hectare land lot.
The rose garden owner is concerned about ancient rose’s preservation and propagation. There are about 400 rose bushes here some which are more than 30 years old and given lots of care and love from its owner.
The garden is also quite special in its design with a small path interspersed with flowers and embellished with small natural rocks.
From the rose garden, visitors can broaden their views admiring the terraced fields and listening to the murmuring stream between the hills.
This is a favorite tourism attraction in Sa Pa
Sa Pa also has many other rose gardens such as a nearly 5-hectare garden with more than 200 ancient roses aged tens of decades’ old managed by Hoang Lien Community Eco-Tourism Cooperative, or the ancient rose garden in Sau Chua village, Ta Phin rose garden.
The most famous and beautiful garden so far is the one located at the Fansipan cable car station. The all-year-round cool climate creates conditions for roses to always bloom in bright and vibrant colors. It is really such a regret that visitors to Sa Pa have not visited those beautiful gardens./.
Text: Q.Lien
