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March 25, 2007
Bac Ha Market (Katy)
Today we went to Bac Ha market. It's about 110km from Sapa so took over 3 hours to get there.
The market was amazing though. It was full of the hill tribe people in their traditional dress. They are related to the tribes near Sapa but the clothes they wear are much more colourful. In Sapa are the Black Mung people and in Bac Ha there are the Flower Mung people.
Their clothes are embroidered with brightly coloured flowers. It was amazing to see. They all come in from the surrounding hills on Sunday to buy and sell what they need at the market. As usual it was the women doing all the work while the men sit together drinking rice wine. Some of them looked very much the worse for wear after lunch.
Posted by admins at March 25, 2007 1:11 PM