Brocade is a distinctive feature of Sapa. It is considered a unique specialty that should be given to your family or your friends after taking Sapa tours. However, not so many tourists know how to choose and where to buy the genuine brocade in Sapa. This article will give you some useful information.
1/ How to choose the genuine brocade?
To choose the exquisite and genuine patterns of Sapa brocade, you need to search for its characteristics beforehand in order not be confused with Chinese brocade with the bad quality. To be specific, the brocade weaving culture has existed in Sapa for a long time, becoming one of the most well-known traditional handicrafts to a lot of tourists in Sapa tours. Commonly, the genuine Sapa brocade is originally created by the skillful hands of ethnic people in a meticulously way in each needle and thread. It is traditionally woven with various patterns and harmonious colors.
Brocade items in Sapa are very diverse. Whichever market you visit in your Sapa tours, you can easily see a lot of kinds of brocade products namely traditional costumes of ethnic minorities, dolls, handkerchiefs, bags and so on. Due to the traditional methods, patterns on Sapa brocade products are somewhat unequal and unsmooth. Otherwise, Chinese brocade products are woven by machines so these are extremely pretty except for the quality. Therefore, you have to carefully distinguish to buy the genuine Sapa brocade with high quality.
2/ Where to buy the genuine brocade?
The best places to buy brocade in your Sapa tours Vietnam are at ethnic families’ houses which have a long history of weaving brocade. Accordingly, in Cat Cat Village, there are so many households still preserving the brocade weaving culture to serve their daily activities and tourists in Sapa tours. In addition, you can pay a visit to some traditional brocade villages in Sapa like Ta Phin brocade village, which is considered one of the best places to buy brocade products in Sapa.
3/ How do our tourists feel after taking Sapa tours?
“Went on 2 days trek with guide Ngoc. What a wonderful experience. Gorgeous views, a trek customized to our preferred level of difficulty (medium), a delicious lunch freshly prepared in a local house. Above all, our guide Ngoc made our day. A truly knowledgeable, friendly and fun guide whose English is really impressive. It was like spending the day with a local friend.
As many reviewers have said, there are always a couple of local women trekking along to give you a hand in difficult parts of the trek in exchange for you buying their wares at the end. At first we weren’t so thrilled about that, but eventually, their help proved invaluable as I would have definitely fallen down a number of times without their help. I was very happy to buy a bag from each of them at the end!
TrekkingSapa is more expensive than other treks, but 100% worth the extra expense as they are one of the few companies who actually support the local minorities. The minorities are barely profiting from all the big companies opening hotels and tour businesses in Sapa, which is why they rely mainly on selling their handmade wares. This is one of the only ones where the profit goes directly back to the local Hmong people.”
ELLA SLINGSBY Australia
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