3 Fairs to Buy Beautiful Souvenirs in Sapa
SaPa love market, Bac Ha fair and Coc Ly market are 3 markets that are not only famous for their tourism value but also one of the most beautiful places to buy souvenirs in Sapa.
SA PA LOVE
Located in Sa Pa Town, Lao Cai province, this is a market of the H’Mong and Dao people who meet every Saturday night next to the stone church. Sa Pa tourist market is a very unique cultural and economic activity, a place to exchange and buy a variety of goods and local products such as: Brocade, clothes, towels, hats, shoulder bags, wallets , beautiful and unique bracelets… At the same time, it is also an opportunity for highland people to go to the market and young men and women of different ethnic groups to meet, sing love songs to find out their life partner through love songs, through love songs. flute, trumpet, lip harp…
Going to Sa Pa love market, in addition to sightseeing, watching activities happening around, you are also free to watch and choose to buy souvenirs for friends or relatives.
BAC HA MARKET
This is a market in Bac Ha district, Lao Cai province, about 60km from Lao Cai city. Bac Ha is known as the largest market in the border highlands. Here, you can arbitrarily choose brocade products, dazzling with the brilliant colors of the dresses of the Mong and Red Dao ethnic girls. Foreign tourists often admire the hand-woven paintings with vivid motifs, harmonious and beautiful colors.
Coming to Bac Ha, you will not see a scene of soliciting and buying goods, but only seeing simple faces in colorful ethnic clothes, they come to the market not only for the purpose of buying and selling, but also to have fun with the market. In the afternoon, the market begins to attract customers, the drunk man sitting on horseback, the woman leading the horse back to the village is an image that remains in the minds of tourists.
COC LY MARKET
Right next to the suspension bridge over the Chay river is Coc Ly market. The market is not big, but it is very important for ethnic minorities in the west of Bac Ha district (Lao Cai). Meeting once a week on Tuesday, Coc Ly is a meeting place, exchanging goods and selling souvenirs of the Hoa Mong, the Dog Dao (also known as the Black Dao) and the Nung.
Like other upland markets, in Coc Ly people sell everything from local products, souvenirs for tourists to utensils brought from the bottom up or from China. People go to the market not only to shop but also to play, eat, meet, exchange and find friends. There are separate zones here; such as the area selling buffalo, selling horses, selling fruit, living and dining items.
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