Sapa Love Market: Ethnic Dating Place

Sapa Love Market: Ethnic Dating Place

Sapa love market is one of Sapa’s highlights attracting any tourist taking a Vietnam adventure travel on Saturday evenings. It is a very special cultural characteristic of the Mong and Dao people in Lao Cai highlands in particular and the Northwest of Vietnam in general. Sapa love market is the meeting place of couples in the villages. 
 

 
Most of the ethnic minorities such as Mong, Dao, or Tay in Sapa live in Muong Hoa Valley, where the Muong Hoa River originates from the peak of Fansipan. Water from the river helps the ethnic minority communities cultivate agriculture as well as serve their daily activities. When hearing the name "Sapa love market", tourists would have thought of a place with interesting activities for lovers during their Sapa trekking tour. However, only when you set your foot on Sapa, can you understand the meaning of this name. A love market is a dating place for young couples. They send their affectionate love to their own halves in a cultural and subtle way there. Those who love each other choose the love market as a place to make a date. Therefore, the market place that couples are dating, send sentiment, express their love gestures according to local custom. If you choose Sapa in your Vietnam adventure trip, you will never regret joining in a Sapa love market.
 
 
Sapa love market is held every Saturday in the evening in the square near the Sapa Rock Church. Many special activities that are not available anywhere else take place there. At Sapa love market, you will see young men and women in the village of the Northwest. They come here to meet and reciprocate their emotions with fun activities such as singing love songs, blowing the leaf-trumpet and dancing. Right from the afternoon in a day of your Sapa trekking tour Vietnam, you can see women dress in gorgeous ethnic costumes with silver cuffs and silver rings on the road and at the churchyard. You can also easily see young men around young girls and give them their cassettes. They recorded the songs to express their love in ethnic language, this is an interesting activity in a memorable Vietnam adventure tour which you may have try. If a woman consents a man, she will tie the string to his wrist by herself. The couples will hand in hand go to the hills, mountain passes, or somewhere to confide in. After taking part in these activities of a Sapa love market, many couples have been more intimate, even there have been couples becoming husband and wife and having a happy life.

Sapa love market is not only a place for men and women, it is also a market for couples to warm up their love. Couples gather for chatting together. The husband blows the trumpet and drinks wine with his friends, while the wife dances and pours wine for her husband. That is the unique and distinctive in the customs of the H'Mong ethnic. It is an outstanding feature of Asia adventure to make your trip more interesting.
 
 
Visitors coming to Sapa love market not only have a chance to watch the traditional dance of H'Mong, but also to contemplate the beauty of Sapa landscape. Sapa love market in every season is always beautiful. In each season, there are unique characteristics to attract people. In the winter, people gather to talk around the fire, the warmth makes them become closer. The weather in autumn is cool, it is very suitable for visitors to enjoy their Sapa Vietnam adventure tour. Spring is the most ideal season to come to Sapa. 

Visiting Sapa, visitors can also have chances to enjoy Sapa specialties such as grilled foods, salted, salmon hotpot. Each of the grilled foods is marinated in variety of spices then they are baked directly on coals. Their fragrance can satisfy tourists, even the most hard-to-please one. You will be attracted by the unique dishes with the flavor of forests such as Meo cider, barbecue, grilled wild birds, fried fish and shrimp balls, and tempered vegetables such as chayote, cauliflower, cabbage.

Special features in Sapa love market gives visitors a new and interesting feeling for Vietnam adventure tour. Sapa love market is the destination that you cannot ignore when taking an opportunity to travel Sapa - the beautiful foggy land.
 

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