Lung Phin backward market

When going to Lung Phin backward market, visitors will be immersed in an atmosphere, which is as bustling and jubilant as Tet holiday. The locals bring their own wide range of products, from chickens, eggs, vegetables to sugar canes, etc., which are carefully packed to be sold in the market.

The market is called "backward market", because it takes place once a week, and next week's market is held back one day from the previous week's fair. This is considered one of the most unique fairs in the northernmost region of the country.

From early in the morning, the locals from remote villages eagerly move to the market. Some of them ride horses, while the others ride motorbikes or travel by bus, and most people chose to walk, but they all arrive at the market on time.

They go to the market like going to a festival, being dressed in their most beautiful "clothes" with the traditional costumes of their ethnic groups, and carrying home-made products behind their backs for sale. These products are varied from knifes, hoes, potatoes, cassavas to buffalos, cows, horses, chickens or pigs, etc.

The special feature of the fair is that the locals themselves produce the goods and raise the livestock. All these products have created a "brand name" of the fairs taking place in the rocky plateau in the northernmost pole of the country.

Near noon, the fair became sparse. The baskets were filled with essentials, and the horses slowly walked back. The fair is as simple and idyllic as the life of the ethnic people in this highland.

Hue News would like to introduce to you a photo reportage on Lung Phin backward market, recorded by Nguyen Phuc Bao Minh, the photographer.

Lung Phin Market in Dong Van District

Various kinds of fried pies being sold at the entrance to the market

An area selling pigs in the market

An area selling buffaloes and cows in the market

The way to the market is a long slope halfway up the mountain

A H'Mong ethnic family, with the husband sit sewing while the wife selling ethnic minority clothes to the locals

A bakery using modern machines, located on the way to the market

A Dao ethnic grandmother carrying her grandchild in a trinh tuong house, beside the market

A Dao ethnic mother carrying her child on her back to the fair

An ethnic minority man has bought a large pan. It is often used to cook food or cook pig bran in the household

The H'Mong ethnic wife selling brocade products, the husband sat sewing, and the girl waiting to receive the products

Pies made from cornmeal being baked and sold in the market

In a roadside food stall, traditional Vietnamese pipe tobacco (thuoc lao) being available, which locals can smoke for free before leaving the stall

After going to the fair, locals bringing purchased goods and leaving the market. They moved in groups of both children and adults, and climbing the towering cat-eared mountains of the rocky plateau to return to their village

The most popular breakfast food in the market is pho. Children loving to be fed pho by their parents every time they going to the fair