It is interesting to know that most of not to be-missed attractions in Sapa are waterfalls. Each of them features the specific beauty and attached with mysterious stories. Love waterfall is one such of those attractions.
Situated 4 km from the Southwest of Sapa town, Love waterfall is the start for the tour of climbing Fansipan. What surprises us that each destination here has a relation with name of the waterfall.
The road leading to Love waterfall is quite difficult for visitors who live in delta terrain. It requires you strong energy to climb up and carefulness to climb down.
Love waterfall belongs to a system of 3 big waterfalls in San Sa Ho of Sapa district including: Bac waterfall in upstream, Cat Cat waterfall and lastly Love waterfall, which is considered the combination between the stunning beauty and violent vitality of romantic love story.
Ly Ta May, the tour-guide of Red Dao ethnic people said that when being a little child, he was told a story about Love waterfall as well as the touched love story of a woodcutter and the 7th fairy.
Once upon a time, the fairies were very excited with fascinating landscape of this place. Therefore, they often landed here to bathe. Until one day, the 7th fairy saw a young woodcutter playing flute by the Yellow stream. The sound came from the flute was very beautiful and immediately attracted the fairy. One day, because of being absorbed in listening the sound, she forgot to come back home. When the night came, the fairy could not stand the coldness in the forest. Thus, she came to the fire of the boy to warm herself. Her appearance took the man by surprise at first and then they started to make friends. The boy introduced himself as O Quy Ho, the eldest son of Spirit Mountain on Ai Lao range. Due to the passion with bamboo, he decided to live here and made a magic flute from the bamboo to blow whenever he was happy or sad. Because he was too interested in the nature of this place and neglected his duty of taking over his father’s career, Spirit Mountain got angry. He turned his son into an ordinary person and asked him to live in this mountain to plant bamboos and play flute. By the flickering fire, the boy used his flute and blew passionate melodies. The flute’s sound was so sweet that many animals in the forest flocked to there and danced with the melodies . They only stopped dancing when the sun rose and the fairy flied to the sky in hurry. This happened again many times until her parents caught up and forbade her to follow her sisters to the human world. The fairy missed O Qui Ho so much that she spent every afternoon at heaven’s gate looking towards the waterfall and waiting for the sounds of the flute. Still, she did not see him there. This upset her so much that finally she transformed into a yellow bird flying around the mountain and constantly called “O Quy Ho”. Her cry touched the heart’s of people and they decided to name the peak near the waterfall “O Quy Ho”, the mountain where the man went across “Xe Mountain” and the waterfall was called “Love Waterfall”.