Can Cau Market opens right on the sides of Road 153, linking Bac Ha and Si Ma Cai towns |
Can Cau Market usually opens on Saturdays and traditional festivals. Market-goers are mainly Mong and Giay ethnic minorities |
The market lasts from the early morning through noon |
Can Cau Market is divided into many areas selling various agricultura products produced by local ethnic minorities |
Brocade products sold at the market always attract visitors' attention because of their colours |
A woman sells chickens at Can Cau Market. Products at the market are mainly agricultural products like sugarcane, bee honey, alcohol, corn, buffaloes, and brocade |
Can Cau is considered the biggest buffalo market in the northwestern region when hundreds of buffaloes are brought here on each market day |
However, the number of buffaloes brought to Can Cau Market has declined in recent years |
Ethnic women talk to each other while going to the market |
Can Cau Market is also a venue for ethnics from faraway villages to meet one another |
A man enjoys a bowl of noodles at the market |
Can Cau Market - untouched ethnic identity in northwest of Vietnam |
Many children follow their parents to go to the market |
Going to the market is a joy of children in the mountainous region |
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