The Red Dao medicated bath in SaPa.

Thursday, May 16th, 2013 - 7:38 AM

Sapa where is called “fog town”, located in Lao Cai province in Tay Bac highland. Sapa has an exotic allure. Have a hard time to forget the smell, flavor of roasted egg, corn, baked potatoes, grilled pork meat sold on the sidewalks around the church in the cool night or smell Thang Co (made from buffalo, horse, beef and pork meat and heart, liver, flesh, bones are tender to the pain boil water. When eaten, the pan still on the stove to boil), boiled Mongolian chicken pieces, drink San Lung, Tao Meo wine.

Even the most rustic dishes at Sapa is boiled kohlrabi which restaurants chosen as an appetizer before a meal can also cause memory. Sapa love market is also a traditional culture of ethnic Hmong, Dao in Lao Cai mountainous. But recently tourists visit Sapa also love one more thing. It's bathing traditional tobacco of Red Dao people. Soaked in a hot tub with fragrance of herbal natural, tourists will feel relax, the weariness of walking around highland area go away. This comfortable doesn’t have when sauna in other places. Special traditional bathing methods which postpartum women can came back after a week with the usual farm. Since ancient times, Red Dao people knew how to use herbal bath to recuperation and healing. In addition to nomal medicine bath, Red Dao people also bath treatment drugs muscle aches, joints, bones, flu, itchy or improve maternal health after sick, work hard. After take a bath, body massage or foot massage is very excited. It’ take about an hour all.

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