Two weeks in North Vietnam - 12/21 - 1/3/2023

Day 4- Cable car to Fansipan-12/24/2023

Fansipan is the tallest mountain is Vietnam and Indochina (Vietnam. Laos, & Cambodia) with a height of 10,326ft and is also called the Roof of Indochina. Located in the Hoang Lien Son Mountain Range of Northwestern Vietnam. A cable car to the peak of Fansipan was inaugurated on 2 February 2016 and takes about 20 minutes to reach to summit.

The cable car holds two Guinness World Records for the longest nonstop, three-rope cable car in the world, spanning  around 4 miles, and the greatest elevation difference by a nonstop, three-roped cable car for the 4,626 ft. difference in elevation between the bottom to the top.

View of Sapa valley as we are going up.

It was such a cold and cloudy day.

Muong Hoa Valley

Muong Hoa Valley is home to mainly Red Dao, Giay, and Black H'mong ethnic people.

Rice terraces view from the cable car.

It is winter in Sapa and at it is very cool.  We were the only people in the cable car.

Loan and Minh all bundled up for winter.

The ride in the cable car is pretty smooth.

Panoramic view of the Hoang Lien Son Range.

The view is magnificent from the cable car.

We are now floating through the clouds.  It is pretty amazing as you cannot see very far but it is absolutely stunning.

We are now getting out of the clouds.  What an amazing view with the dense clouds underneath the cable car.

As soon as we are above the clouds, we could see the sun shinning through.

It is pretty insane imagery with the trees floating above the mountains and the clouds encircling the entire bottom part of the mountain.

The mountains are so majestic.

We are way high above the clouds.

We are now almost at the summit.

We just reached the summit.

Cable car station at the summit.

As we are getting off the cable car, I just took pictures of what I see below us.

We are pretty high up above the clouds and it looks so incredible.

We are now headed to the temples, gardens, and peak of Fansipan

NEXT...FANSIPAN SUMMIT