Sapa Market
The Markets:
Bac Ha 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. Several groups of deep-coloured Hmong
are found there, as well as Dao, Tay, Nung, and Phu La. Make sure to arrive
before 9 a.m., the market ends at about 12:30. Sleeping in Bac Ha, on the
Saturday offers an opportunity to watch the preparations for the market and the
successive waves of villagers going there. Tasting the local corn spirit is a
must, but be prudent, it may be up to 550 proof!
Can Cau market: Every Saturday from 6 a.m. to 12, in the middle of the paddy
fields and corn fields, the various hmong groups from the highland villages sell
their farming products and buy fabrics, farming tools and kitchenware. The local
Hmong wear traditional costumes that are so gaudy and heavily embroidered that
the Chinese, the French and the Vietnamese have nicknamed them the Flowery
Hmong. Numerous Hmong farmers travel back to their villages on horseback, the
only way to carry heavy loads in these steep areas.
Tuesday Coc Ly 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.
Pha Long 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.
Along the road, in a landscape of mountain peaks, numerous Nung et Hmong
villages. Lots of traditional houses with baked earth tiled roofs.
Muong Khuong Sunday market: Big market with a wide range of ethnic groups:
Hmong, Dao, Nung, and merchants from other ethnic groups who come all the way
from China to sell their products. Several Pa Zi women sell traditional incense
made from the bark and resin of scented trees.
MuongHumSunday market: every Sunday from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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. Those living in the
highlands, like the Hmong and the Zao (Dao) come down to sell their specific
products such as cardamom and other spices and mountain plants.
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Sapa Budget Tours
- Sapa Day Tours - Sapa Day Excursions - Day Trips Sapa Vietnam
- Sapa Walk and Bac ha Market
- Sapa Hard Trekking Two
- Sapa Hard Trekking One
- Sapa Medium Trek Two
- Sapa Medium Trek
Sapa Trekking and Adventures
- Fansipan peak conquering VIP tour (3 days - 2 nights)
- Fansipan peak conquering VIP tour (2 days - 1 nights)
- Fansipan peak conquering Deluxe tour (4 days - 3 nights)
- Fansipan peak conquering Deluxe tour (3 days - 2 nights)
- Fansipan peak conquering Deluxe tour (2 days - 1 nights)
- Fansipan peak conquering Standard tour (4 days - 3 nights)
Sapa Cycling Options
- Sapa - Binh Lu - Lai Chau(with biking)
- Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Ban Ho
- Sapa Biking Tour - Ban Ho Village
- Sapa Biking Tour - Binh Lu - Lai Chau
- SaPa - Bac Ha Market with biking
- Pedalling The Remote Sapa\'s Northwest
Sapa Luxury Holidays
Traditional Minority Discovery Packages
- Green Sapa bus (Hanoi – Sapa)
- Eco Sapa Limousine Van (Hanoi – Sapa)
- Private car Hanoi Sapa
- Hanoi Sapa Private Cabin bus
- Coc Ly market with boat trip
- Cao Son market -boat trip on Chay river- Sapa Tours
Sapa Classic Trips
Northern Mountain Discovery Packages
Topas Ecolodge Sapa tours
- Topas Ecolodge and Market Package 3D/4N
- Topas Ecolodge and Market Package-2D/3N
- Topas Ecolodge and Victoria Sapa Package – 4D/5N
- Topas Ecolodge and Victoria Sapa Package – 3D/4N
- Topas Ecolodge Package – 3D/4N
- Topas Ecolodge Package 2D/3N
Top hotels in Sapa
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