Bac Ha-180 Km from Sapa town, this market is the biggest trading centre. It’s very crowded with local products for sale or barter are carried on horseback.
Besides the usual items like pigs, cows, chickens, and ducks, the Bac Ha market sell dogs. As dogs are available as cuts of meat, they are also available live, right next to the live pigs, chickens, and other livestock.Rounding the corner and pungent fumes of alcohol accosted our senses of smell, from corn whiskey, a Bac Ha specialty. The potent moonshine is decanted by vendors from large white plastic jugs to used bottled water containers. If you doubt the ability of a vendor’s hooch to peel paint or light your senses on fire, you can try a shot for free. At the market, adventurous gastronomes can try “thang co blood porridge”, a popular dish of the H’Mong and other local people.Bac Ha market will begin from earlier morning. They come market is not for buying or selling, they may take this chance to meet friends, relatives, couples or drink or just show the new clothes. So the most beautiful life style of ethnic people you can look at Bac Ha market fair.One special in spring market fair, people are excited at preparing for tet. Bac Ha market seems become more bustle and crowded with people. Especially for this spring, plums blossom earlier in Bac Ha which attracts more and more tourists coming here. Bac Ha market on Spring days looks more wonderful with colorful clothes of ethnic people at market, with white plums. Sometimes we can hear the bustle sound of Khen and the love songs singing.
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