Translation of secta

One of my favorite seasons is the winter, the time in which everything is white and bright. But even though I like this time of the year a part of me detests it because of it may drawbacks.
It's like a fairytale. Many green areas, play grounds and many children playing on the streets and a gold court at the end of my street. I've found a great partner from Greece to play with at the weekends.
On the way we visited many small hill tribe villages. The walk was through green, wet rice fields. We really enjoyed it. Our guide explained us about the region and taught us some Vietnamese.