REAL SAPA – a 100% ethnic-minority owned business
UPDATE July 2024: All our trails are open!
We are a group of ethnic Black H’mong cousins living in a mountain valley near Sapa, in northern Vietnam. We do guided trekking tours, that are different from your usual tours offered by other companies. We take you to areas that other tourists do not get to see, so as to keep your experience unique and traditional. Our tour usually treks through the mountains and stays over night in a local family’s house.
“Most important is that we give back to our community. Tourism can help my people to make stable income.” – Lang Giang
REAL SAPA is social enterprise, 100% owned by locals. We are a group of Black H’mong cousins living in a mountain valley in northern Vietnam. We grow watermelons, oranges, dragonfruit and bananas on a five-hectare orchard about 37 kilometers from Sapa. Tourism to our area is providing us with new opportunities to earn sustainable salary. With that income, we can help our families and our communities. Contact me any time if you want to know more.
We have worked as tour guides in the Sapa area for many years. In 2014 we started working together under the name of Real Sapa 🙂
We speak English, Vietnamese and our local languages.
Many Sapa guides offer walking tours near Sapa town. But we take guests up to 60 kilometers away from the town to places that most tourists never see. We also give tours on our fruit orchard.
Almost all businesses in the Sapa area are owned by Vietnamese, but Real Sapa is 100% ethnic-minority owned. We invest our profits into our orchard and we give money to poor people in our community.
Farming corn near Sapa photo © Ton Koene
We have worked as tour guides in the Sapa area for many years. In 2014 we started working together under the name of Real Sapa 🙂
We speak English, Vietnamese and our local languages.
Many Sapa guides offer walking tours near Sapa town. But we take guests up to 60 kilometers away from the town to places that most tourists never see. We also give tours on our fruit orchard.
Almost all businesses in the Sapa area are owned by Vietnamese, but Real Sapa is 100% ethnic-minority owned. We invest our profits into our orchard and we give money to poor people in our community.
See you in Sapa!