Now, we need some ideas about the mountain we are about to climb, right?

Fansipan or Fan Si Pan (Phan Xi Păng in Vietnamese pronunciation (help·info)) is a mountain in Vietnam, the highest in Indochina, at 3 143 m. It is located in the Lào Cai province in Northwest Vietnam, 9 km southwest of Sa Pa Township in the Hoang Lien Son Mountain Range. Fansipan is dubbed “the Roof of Indochina”; it is to be approved as one of the very few ecotourist spots of Vietnam, with about 2,024 floral varieties and 327 faunal species.

The topography of Fansipan is varied. Muong Hoa Valley, at the lowest altitude (950 to 1 000m), is created by a narrow strip of land at the base on the east side of the mountain. It can be climbed in a steep and fairly strenuous hike.

As I mentioned earlier, there’s so much information has been written about this mountain on the net, esp those who have been there before. I think the best idea is to just type this link into this blog, and you can have some ideas how it looks like. I know this can be laziest way to update a blog, but why repeating the same thing what other’s has done?

Of course, I’ll update my own infos once we climb it and back…

Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Si_Pan