Hotline: (024) 39411349
Travel

Market in the mist

Every Saturday when the forest is still wrapped in dense mist, people from different ethnic minority groups gather in Y Ty market in Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province to sell their products.
VNA

  • Y Ty  is a market of four ethnic groups, Ha Nhi, Mong, Giay and Dao. (Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

  • A Ha Nhi woman buys incense at the year-end market.(Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

  • Y Ty market is also known for medicinal herbs.(Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA) 

  • Ducks raised by the Ha Nhi are a specialty of Y Ty market. (Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

  • Farm products of Y Ty are sold in the market. (Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

  • A Mong girl chooses a colourful dress.(Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

  • Selling women’s jewelry in Y Ty market. (Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

  • Ha Nhi women test a kitchen utensil which is new and strange to them. (Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

  • Buying blanket. (Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

  • At a cloth stall in the market.(Photo: Vietnam Pictorial/VNA)

Other albums