Entree Kibbles: Funicular Train to the Top of Fansipan Mountain @ Sapa in Vietnam

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Funicular Train to the Top of Fansipan Mountain @ Sapa in Vietnam

If my dad didn't join us, I would have climbed the 600 steps up to the top of fansipan mountain at Sapa! But he did and at an age of 72 years old, we trust it would have been torturing in the cold weather and top-up for funicular train ticket instead.

Obviously, many visitors had the same thought! While it might not be good for the knees, we figured it would be more time-efficient to take the train up, and then slowly make our way down.

Queue was twenty minutes long before we finally reached the turnstiles that allowed us, officially, into the boarding zone of the funicular train.

Line was even longer by then!

Train is coming! As you can see, it's a single track funicular train and that could have explained the long queue, especially when most people wouldn't mind paying the high 150,000 vietnamese dong for a less than five-minute ride to spare them the torture of climbing up a few hundred meters up.

Let's squeeze in!

At the bottom cabin, where we can't see anything! Not that it mattered anyway since the whole mountain was shrouded in a thick layer of cloud, resulting in low visibility.

Photograph for reference!