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4 truly amazing markets you must visit during your Sapa tour VietNam

Sapa is the most attractive mountain place must be visited on any northern Vietnam itinerary, and having Sapa tour Vietnam is a great experience. On a clear day you will treated to views of steeply terraced rice fields, towering verdant ridgelines, primitive mud-thatched villages, raging rivers and astounding waterfalls. Nestled high in the Hoang Lien Son mountain range near the Chinese border, Sapa was built as a hill station during French colonial days, to serve as a respite from stifling Hanoi summers.

One to four-day treks are offered by a handful of outfitters. In this article I will show you some most prominent markets to go during your Sapa tour Vietnam.

Sapa tour Vietnam –  Love Market

Sapa is famous for its “Love Market” – sort of a cross between a Middle Eastern arms bazaar, an Amish square dance, a bad Pavarotti concert and Bangkok’s Patpong (except here the people wear clothes). On Saturday nights, Red Dzao hill tribe youths of both sexes congregate in a weekly courting rite, singing tribal versions of love songs to woo the opposite sex. The songs are highly personalized and boast of the composer’s physical attributes, domestic abilities and strong work ethic. While Dzao women are indeed highly industrious, the men, it seems, prefer to spend most of their time drinking, smoking opium or sleeping, only occasionally slapping the rump of a lethargic bovine moving more slowly than they are. Few of their songs, though, are about drinking, smoking opium, sleeping or slapping rumps.

4 truly amazing markets you must visit during your Sapa tour VietNam

Love market in Sapa

Sapa tour Vietnam – Can Cau Market

Sprawling near the banks of a river, Can Cau Market is a clearly defined shantytown, packed with crude stalls covered with thatched roofs. The start of a few simple settlements can be seen high above, many of whose residents now make their weekly pilgrimage to the market. We are only 9kms from the Chinese border and some traders make the journey across from China on horseback. Unfortunately foreigners are not allowed to reciprocate this set-up, however tempting it may seem.

4 truly amazing markets you must visit during your Sapa tour VietNam

Can Cau market in Sapa

Can Cau is predominately a livestock market and not the sort of place to buy some choice gifts for the folks back home. Beyond the fenced-in perimeter, pot-bellied pigs, chickens and water buffalo wait patiently by the river to be sold. They rub shoulders with magnificent wild horses, some of whom will be transporting their masters back over to China. But the market also sells the basics: traditional clothing, sacks of rice, bundles of coarse, raw wool and ironware. Some stalls sell fresh tobacco and a rather sad array of root vegetables. Many women sell their wares from large, wicker baskets and sit weaving whilst waiting for a sale. I note that there are many giant plastic containers lying around with attached tubes. I mistakenly think this is gasoline, but it is in fact the omni-present rice wine and some folk are spotted wisely filling up their water bottles for the long ride home. Food stalls serve bowls of steaming fat noodles in broth and indescribable plates of what I can only assume are some sort of animal innards. It is almost like being transported back in time.

Sapa tour Vietnam – Binh Lu & Tam Duong Market

Binh Lu and Tam Duong market is located on the other side of Sapa, passing the 1900 meter Tram Ton pass, Viet Nam’s highest mountain pass and considered the most beautiful stretch of road in the country. The town is bustling with activity as the local hill tribes gather for their weekly market day, amazing tribal markets in Binh Lu where thousand of Thai Kadai language groups such as Tai Lu, Tai Laos, White Tai, and H’mong – Yao group (black Yao, Yao Lantien..), Giay, Khomu.. comes to buy and sell their own products.

4 truly amazing markets you must visit during your Sapa tour VietNam

Tam Duong market in Sapa

Sapa tour Vietnam – Coc Ly market

Taking place only on Tuesday, Coc Ly market is located on a hill side lying along the famous Chay river and surrounded by two lush mountain ranges. This market is quite small yet being very colourful, and at there you can meet several ethnic minorities living in the northwest of Bac Ha district such as Flower Hmong, Black Zao, Phu La, Nung or Tay, as they come to the market and trade goods.

The market is divided into separate zones: one is for selling brocade, and another is for selling traditional cuisines. The difference of this fair is that it’s not only the place for people to sell and exchange merchandise, but also the place to sing the love song. Tourists can take photos with their relatives or friends to celebrate where they go and do in Coc Ly market. This place should definitely be included in your Sapa tour Vietnam!

4 truly amazing markets you must visit during your Sapa tour VietNam

Coc Ly market in Sapa

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