Arrive in Lao Cai in early morning. Have breakfast at a local restaurant then get on a drive uphill along sinuous mountain road to Bac Ha for your visit to an exciting weekly hill tribe markets.
Here you will see Flower Hmong, Phu La, Dao, Tay, Nung… all races of hill tribes there gathering around for trading, meeting up and finding their friends and partners, showing up their best costume and find their partners in one of the most colorful weekly fairs of the highland. It is an awesome experience of seeing colors, understanding traditions and feeling the atmosphere. The market offers a variety of local products includes colorful embroidery, handicrafts and all types of daily necessary stuffs. Here also available animal market where people sell and buy or barter animal such as dogs, pot-bellied pigs, cows, buffalos and so on...
Wander through, enjoy the atmosphere, try some local specialties and get for you some best photos.
Drive back down to Lao Cai then uphill to Sapa in the afternoon. Remainder of the day is at your leisure.
Locates in the middle height of the Hoang Lien Mountain Range, this former French hill station and its surroundings is famous for beautiful weather, spectacular natural landscapes of mountain, forest and hillside terraces. This is home to some of most colorful hill tribe communities in the country.
Notes: Depending on your arrival day and the market schedule, the visit to the hill tribe market can be swap to next day.
Summary of inclusions
Bac Ha hill tribe market visit