What's interesting at the first Stone Lotus Festival in Sa Pa?

Thanh Hương |

The Fansipan 2024 Stone Lotus Festival is held for the first time in Sa Pa from now until December 30 at the Sun World Fansipan Legend tourist area.

With many attractive activities, the Stone Lotus Festival opens the series of the biggest tourism stimulus programs of the year in Lao Cai province called "Touch Sa Pa, touch the clouds".

This is the first activity, starting a series of the biggest tourism stimulus events of the year in Lao Cai province. Accordingly, from now until December 30, more than 130 businesses in Sa Pa will simultaneously launch huge promotional programs of up to 50%, local authorities will coordinate with businesses to organize brilliant cultural and festival events, bringing visitors the most memorable experiences and emotions when coming to Sa Pa in the cloud season.

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The space of the Stone Lotus Festival is meticulously cared for so that visitors can easily visit and enjoy. Photo: T. Ha

Accordingly, the Succulent Festival conveys a positive message of recovery and development of Sa Pa after the recent storm No. 3. Succulents are like the people of Sa Pa, with the ability to bloom brilliantly on the arid rocky slopes, symbolizing strong vitality in the midst of hardship, expressing the pure beauty of nature.

Coming to this festival, visitors will be able to admire more than 50 unique species of succulents, each with its own beauty, from the vibrant pink succulents to the sparkling glittering pebble succulents, or the pure snow succulents. In particular, the Sa Pa green succulents, butterfly succulents and cherry succulents intertwined will bring visitors interesting visual experiences.

Right at the festival entrance, two lotus petals shaped from 2024 lotus plants of various types are an impressive check-in point, attracting the attention of all visitors.

The stone lotus road is the highlight of the festival, with thousands of colorful stone lotus trees, welcoming and following visitors to explore Fansipan. In particular, at the Fansipan Cable Car Station, visitors will be attracted by the unique design with 3,143 green stone lotus trees of Sa Pa, symbolizing Fansipan peak - the roof of Indochina.

Nhieu loai sen da dac biet duoc gioi thieu den du khach trong le hoi lan nay. Anh: Ha
Many special succulent species are introduced to visitors at this festival. Photo: Ha

The festival is not only a place to display the colors of the lotus but also a vibrant art space with many interesting activities for visitors.

On the opening day, art performances at the festival stage brought visitors impressive moments of entertainment, from Northwest dances, to traditional folk dances to modern art performances.

For those who love traditional handicrafts, the clay figurine making program will be an interesting experience, creating unique works from clay to preserve memories and give to loved ones.

On November 16th, Sun World Fansipan Legend will organize a large-scale lotus painting camp. This will be an inspiring playground for creative souls who want to immerse themselves in nature and express their emotions through each brushstroke.

During the festival, at any time of the day, the tourist area has designed a very artistic tea area for visitors. Here, visitors can sip hot cups of tea, eat cakes and gaze at the hill of stone lotus flowers, enjoy the fresh air of An Nhien garden with cute stone monks.

Le hoi Hoa sen da khong chi la dip de chiem nguong ve dep cua thien nhien ma con la thoi gian de ra song cham lai, cam nhan su ket noi, cung gia dinh va ban be. Anh: Ha
The succulents are in full bloom. Photo: Ha

On this occasion, Sun World Fansipan Legend tourist area also launched a huge cable car ticket promotion for visitors to the Stone Lotus Festival, the entire round-trip cable car fare to Fansipan is only 550,000 VND/ticket for Vietnamese tourists, equivalent to a discount of more than 30% compared to the original cable car ticket price for adults.

This is also an opportunity for tourists to conquer Fansipan peak, hunt clouds on the Roof of Indochina, admire the majestic spiritual architectural complex, but also immerse themselves in the festival atmosphere and explore the unique indigenous cultures of 7 ethnic minorities in the Northwest at Ban May, check in at the immense flower hills at the foot of Fansipan mountain...

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