| Bac Ha Sunday Market
The biggest ethnic market in the Lao Cai province, where you will find buffaloes, horses, blacksmiths, saddlers, but also traditional medicine doctors, with their thousands of mountain herbs and plants, and lots of traditional clothes and local artefacts. |
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| Can Cau Saturday Market
This market, the biggest cardamom market in the area, was already there during the French colonial period and serves as a meeting place for the ethnic groups living in the mountains: Giay, Dao, White Hmong, Hani. |
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| Coc Ly Tuesday Market
Still off the main roads. Several Hmong, Dao, Tay, Nung and Phu La groups are there. You may opt for a boat trip on the river Chay, in the middle of stunning landscapes and villages that have remained totally traditional. |
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| Muong Hum Sunday Market
This market, the biggest cardamom market in the area, was already there during the French colonial period and serves as a meeting place for the ethnic groups living in the mountains: Giay, Dao, White Hmong, Hani. |
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Muong Khuong Sunday Market
Sapa Goldsea Hotel lies upon the mountain, looking over to the Muong Hoa valley, only 5 minutes away from Center Market and the Church which was built in the time of the French's ruling and the Town Center. |
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| Pha Long Saturday Market
Saturday morning from 6 a.m. to twelve. Very rural seldom visited market, where you can meet ethnic groups that are only found in this particular district of Vietnam, mostly Hmong, Nung, Tou Zi, Pa Zi and Tou Lao. |
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