Bac Ha market, the biggest market of high land

Located on Bac Ha district, Lao Cai Province, 60km from Lao Cai City, Bac Ha is the biggest market in mountainous border.
Bac Ha market is where sells unique goods , bold nature of upland ethnic minorities.



Road to Bac Ha with high mountains and terraced fields is so majestic and romantic. The scene that made many tourists stop the car to get to the majestic natural beauty. Not only natural but also people is lovely and friendly.  It is each ethnic group laughs and leads horse-drawn carts of goods to bring to the market for selling. To keep up the fair, they have to go very early, even those who come from the previous day to noon the next day to get to market.


In the past, Bac Ha market meeting on a sloping hill. But now, the market was built on a concrete floor and is divided for each sales region. Market weekly meeting on Sunday. Bac Ha market is the sale of all produce of the highlands, the requisites for people: plows, hoes, shovels, knives, vegetables, fruits, honey.


The most attractive is the sale of jewelry, skirts, dresses, brocade fabric and rattan basket with charm. Here, you can choose from the Brocade products, dazzled with the brilliant colors of the girls dresses ethnic Hmong, Red Dao. Foreign tourists often admire before the paintings are hand-woven with vivid patterns, color harmony and beautiful.


Market is also where men meet and drink next to Thắng cố - one special dish with many flavors. Thắng cố and wine always full, wine of ethnic Mong is known by severity and pungency of alcohol. The horse sale is where most attracted many men, they come from remote villages, even those from Bac Giang provinces, Ha Tay ... also here to horse trade down.


In the wind, sound of pan-pipe and singing of boys is sometime up, sometime down, like inviting girls. Visitors to Bac Ha, especially foreign visitors, they are so  interested in new discoveries about life and customs of the people here. Bac Ha market  also bold activities of upland ethnic communities, keeping the unique traditional culture. Come to Bac Ha, you will not see solicitation scene to buy goods, only the meek faces in colorful ethnic clothes. In the afternoon, not many people in market  ; excessively drunk man sitting on a horse, woman wearing basket, taking horse - an image remains in the minds of visitors.