These cold wind days, visit the beautiful Cat Cat, enjoy the wonderful scenery as well as explore the unique culture here probably should not be missed.
1. Geographic location.
Cat Cat is located in San Tu Ho Commune, Sapa District, Lao Cai Province. The village is about 2km away from Sapa town. In center is the convergence of Tien Sa stream, Gold stream and Silver stream and Cat Cat waterfall (also known as Tien Sa waterfall). Beside the waterfall, there are two suspension bridges: Si bridge and A Lu bridge - A certain check-in location can not be missed.
2. History
Cat Cat village was formed in the middle of the 19th century by a part of ethnic minorities living on the side of the mountain and gathering together, the roofs separated by several dozens of meters and live, cultivation on the right. Previously Cat Cat was famous as a famous site Sapa. In the early 20th century, the French discovered this place and chose this resort as a place for senior officials. The name Cat Cat comes from the possession of a beautiful waterfall that the French still call CatScat.
3. Attractive points
Up to 80 households are mostly located along the middle of the plateau, some of which are scattered on the slopes. A place where many H'mong ethnic minority people live, Cat Cat has never been intrigued by the steep winding stairs, fields, hills and small houses. All like a great dreamy ready to make "passion" visitors. Knitting into the Cat Cat stream is the green terraced fields a new color of rice. Cat Cat village is always busy talking the laughter of indigenous people and tourists. They all blend together to create a harmonious and lively picture of nature.
4. What to do
Exploring H'mong architecture:
The butcher's house is usually made of wood with a powdery wood. Inside the house is arranged with 3 horizontal columns, columns are on the round or square stone. The walls of the house are also quite special because they are made of sawn timber, with three doors: the main door in the middle, two side doors at the two ends. The main door is always closed, only open when there are big things such as wedding, funeral ghosts, ghost offerings on the occasion of Tet. Inside the house there is space for worship, food storage shelves, sleeping places, kitchens and receptions. This is one of the characteristics of the construction of the Mong people in Cat Cat compared with the ethnic groups.
Discover the unique customs, beauty in religious beliefs
The custom is quite special that is the habit of dragging his wife. When a boy acquainted and fell in love with a girl, he will organize a party to invite his friends and ask you to plan to "pull" the girl unexpectedly, holding her for three days. Then, if the girl agrees to be the wife of the boys then will conduct the official wedding ceremony. If she refuses, they drink a glass of wine together and everything goes back to normal as if nothing had happened. H'mong wedding in Cat Cat is usually held from 2 to 7 days.
Visit how to make silver jewelry
Cat Cat Village has been manufacturing silver and bronze jewelry for a long time and has created sophisticated products. The procedure for making a jewelery product has to go through many stages such as putting the silver on the pot on the bottom of the kettle until it melts into the gutter. Wait for the silver to be removed using a hammer, forging silver bar size large, small, long, short, square, triangle, round, flat or spun. Next, they file smoothly and if needed decorate the nail to use, carving patterns or sink and then bending the product. Finally, smoothing, whitening and shading. Silver carving in Cat Cat is very rich, sophisticated women's jewelry such as necklace, bracelet, barbed wire, ring ...
