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Can Cau Saturday market and Bac Ha Sunday market are the largest markets open
at weekend in the centre of Bac Ha town. It has very beautiful colored
minorities’ costumes. Here you can meet several minorities such as Flower H’Mong,
Black Dzao, Nung, Phu la and Tay. The market offers a variety of local products,
which can not be found in the other areas.
Day 1: Lao Cai - Bac Ha - Si Ma Cai - Can Cau market (L, D)
Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes more
than 2 hours to get to CanCau - a small market situated in a valley surrounded
by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical
cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam.
Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes -
different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of
finding "the other halves of their lifves" and this is also the time for them to
chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine
sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. On the way,
spend time visiting a village of the Flower H'mong and then check in hotel in
BacHa. Free to explore the town.
Day 2: Bac Ha tour - Lao Cai (B,L)
A walk to BacHa market. Visit one village and an old building called The H'mong
king's house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big
market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful
market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's
simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas,
corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to
the minorities through the guide's interpretation. Leave the market for the
H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the
Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time
visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to
Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbor Mouth in
LaoCai.
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