Lao Chai is a village of black
H'Mong ethnic group. Located 7 Kms from Sapa, it is quite approachable from
Sapa for a travellers who do not have much time. View from air, Lao Chai lies
in between mountains and grass hills, with houses that look like colossal
mushrooms on all sides, at 2,660m above the sea-level. All the houses are alike
in construction, normally with 2 rounds, the inside and the outside. The walls
are 40 - 45cm thick and 4,5 - 5m high,
in between there are small stones. Each house is 65- 80m2 large, 4 roofed and
covered with dry grass, without veranda. There is a main door and two side
doors, inside wall there are also 3 doors and behind these doors are the
kitchen, then bedrooms of the family members.
Visitors to the village are able
to enjoy the traditional musics of boys and girls playing the game 'hire and
seek in a blanket' and exchange songs overnight even after the festival, the
boy can bring the girl they played with to their home and marry her. In this
village which you will have a welcome feeling
at any house of the hospitable people there. You can interact them, learn
about their culture and customs.
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