Muong Hum Market, a popular market of hill tribes in North of Vietnam

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Today, we would like to introduce you about Muong Hum market, a very famous market in Bat Xat District, Lao Cai province which is approximately 45km away from Sapa Town. It would be a real miss to skip this merry farmer market in your trip to the Far North. The market is full of people making transactions, bustling activities and colors.

If possible, it is the best experience when joining Vietnam motorcycle tours to Muong Hum market from Sapa. Muong Hum Market is set on open flat land at the bottom of a large and scenic valley by a small river and surrounded by terraced rice paddies. This market convenes on every Sunday is a place where local people meet and communicate.

Many ethnic minority come to the market to sell their homemade products including vegetables, fruits and also domestic animal. The colorful dresses of the market attendants are so fun to watch. There are several ethnic groups going to this market-Giay, Dao, Hmong and Ha Nhi. To some visitors, the diversity of the market attendance alone is bewitching enough. In the market, many Thai girls wearing long pink, green shirts gather around the stall selling handmade silver jewelries. At other corner, there are orange and green dresses of H’mong girls crowdedly standing around the heap of pomegranate. The young Dao girls wear beautifully and sophisticatedly with red scarves on their heads which are rolled up and long to the ears. The long black dresses of Ha Nhi ethnic group is embroidered with green patterns that is new and sophisticated.

The town is awakening by human and horses sounds and colored by the costume worm by local people come down from mountain around. Some famous dishes you can enjoy when coming here are: horse meat fried with onion, pig entrails served with mint leaves and don’t forget to have them with Lao Cai wine or fresh beer.

When the market ends, tourists will be surprised when seeing H’mong wives walking and taking the horses along to carry their drunken husbands to home and the children speaking English proficiently despites of never going to the language school…

Muong Hum market still reserves their own traditional and their lifestyle. When you come here even you are a stranger but people here are warmly welcome you not only with their smiles they can invite you to their meals as well.

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