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Can Cau Market and Bac Ha Market are 2 most famous local market in Vietnam. Can Cau is just below China border while Bac Ha is the biggest one in Northeast.
Can Cau Market is held every Saturday and Bac Ha Market is held every Sunday.
Picked up at Lao Cai Train Station to transfer to Can Cau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to Can Cau – a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colorful costumes – different colors of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding “the other halves of their lives” and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market and have lunch there.Say goodbye to the market and transfer to Bac Ha. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H’mong and then check in hotel in Bac Ha. Free to explore the town. and have dinner in Bac Ha.
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included
Accommodation: Hotel of your choice in Sapa
Day 2: Visit Bac Ha market – Sapa town or Lao Cai station (on Sunday only)
Visit one village and an old building called The H’mong king’s house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colorful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy Bac Ha people’s simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches… talking to the minorities through the guide’s interpretation. Leave the market for the H’mong King’s house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (Ban Pho village) Say good bye to Bac Ha and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese border in Lao Cai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon or back to Station for the train to Hanoi.
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