Seo My Ty - Oasis in the Sky

Tourists experience boating to explore Seo My Ty lake

In the village, there is a clear Seo My Ty lake created by damming the hydroelectric plant. The water in the lake flows from Hoang Lien Son National Park, clear and cool. Local people also use this place to raise sturgeon and salmon to increase their income.

The four seasons in Seo My Ty each have their own beauty and the air is cool and pleasant. In the autumn days of August and September, the sky here is clear blue, with white clouds floating gently. Seo My Ty Lake is high and green, the rice in the terraced fields around the lake is also ripening, along the road leading to the lake there are many kinds of flowers blooming, especially the poetic purple mua flowers.

Autumn is also the most beautiful season of the year in Seo My Ty, visitors can experience fishing, grilling fish, chicken and camping by the lake, kayaking on the 60-hectare water surface, swimming and immersing themselves in the cool water. Until the weather changes from winter to spring, Seo My Ty village attracts visitors to hunt clouds and enjoy the scenery, at this time trees such as cherry, plum, pear blossom all over the mountainsides and hillsides.

Tourists who have visited Seo My Ty Lake in Sapa do not hesitate to give compliments to this beautiful lake. Some say it is a “lake in the clouds”, others say it is an “oasis in the sky”. And no matter what it is compared to, Seo My Ty is still beautiful, both majestic and pristine.

If you are visiting this lake for the first time, you will surely be immersed in the magical beauty that the lake possesses. The lake surface is as calm as a mirror, reflecting the Hoang Lien Son mountain range located next to it. Surrounded by mountains, one after another.

Seo My Ty Lake water is clear, cool and calm all year round. Occasionally the lake surface ripples when there are small boats or bamboo panels serving the transportation needs of people on both sides of the lake and tourists taking pictures. Then in no time, the lake surface becomes peaceful and calm again.

The scenery around Seo My Ty Lake in Sapa is as beautiful as Europe.

The scenery of this lake is so poetic that it easily reminds you of scenes in famous movies. No matter which angle you look at it, this lake makes visitors unable to take their eyes off it.

Coming here, visitors can also rent a boat to go around the lake to admire the charming and poetic scenery. The magical beauty, clear blue water, the undulating mountains, the white clouds and the cool fresh air are truly wonderful experiences when you visit this lake.

If you have plenty of time for this Sapa trip, bring a tent and all the necessary equipment to camp by the lake. The feeling of sleeping by the beautiful lake in the cold weather, the feeling of waking up early to welcome the sunrise at an altitude of 2000 m is definitely a wonderful thing that everyone should try once in their life.

In particular, around Seo My Ty Lake in Sapa, there are many villages of the Mong people. They have lived here for many generations, cultivating terraced fields and raising salmon to develop their lives. The Mong people have almost completely preserved their unique beauty with roofs covered with po mu wood, winding terraced fields or vegetable gardens, peach and plum trees.

Here, you can take a walk in the village to learn more about their lives. At the same time, you can also spend time exploring the nearby primeval forest with the locals.

To get to Seo My Ty Lake in Sapa, visitors will have to go through a winding and difficult road with all kinds of big and small rocks. Therefore, you should only use a motorbike to move more easily. In addition, you should go early in the morning because it will be more dangerous at night because there is no street lighting system like in the plains.

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