Sapa love market

Online Travel Vietnam: Through flute sounds, young girls coming to the love market can realize boy’s love for them. However, the Sapa love market is losing its identity because many people come here not to seek love but money.

Sapa love market is lightened up every Saturday night.

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Locals say that the love market is a unique tradition of the H’mong 
and Dao ethnic minority people in Lao Cai province.
After market-days, many couples have got married.

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Villages of ethnic minority people are very far from Sapa town, 
so they often leave their home on Saturday afternoon and sleep 
at the market on Saturday night to wait for the market-day on Sunday.

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After girls and boys perform umbrella dances and khen (flute of ethnic minority people), 
one collected money from visitors to share as “performers”.

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Giang A Su, 15, told a couple of tourists from Hanoi that he went
to this love market every week to practice English with foreigners 
and exchange information with girls and boys from other villages.

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Local boys who seek for girlfriends at the love market said that the current love 
market has lost its true meaning. Some boys play flute to earn money, not to seek girlfriends.

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Souvenirs sold at the market.

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A Dao do woman invites tourists to buy brocades.

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Some young girls showed their skills at the market.

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Tourists taste grilled eggs at the market.

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Source: VietnamNet.