Bac Ha Market, Lao Cai

You’ll have the strong sense of stepping into another age while rambling through Bac Ha Market, a weekly meet at the small town of Lao Cai by the Chinese border. The Sunday market is one of the most colourful in Asia, with local Hmong people descending from their villages to trade their goods in traditional garb of myriad pattern and colour. You can buy the garments, handicrafts and other produce, though as a true local market, tourists are of background consequence here, and you’ll will most enjoy just soaking up the chatter and trade in wonderful view of the plains and scattered hillocks below. Needless to say, the market is an immersive cultural experience and a photographer’s paradise.

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