Can Cau Market hold on every Saturday from 6hours until midday.

Can Cau Market is the area where different minority groups in colorful dress exchange local items.

From a distance, the fair of Can Cau is very beautiful and vivid.

Can Cau Market is divided into separate areas for all kinds of items. Those goods such as: vegetables, herbs, spices, utensils and other products, which shows the talent of women.

Can Cau Market, though small but it is the place where you can encounter Flower H’mong, Phu La, Black Dao, Tay and Nung minorities in colorful costumes.

Can Cau market belonging to a commune, Lao Cai district. Visitors have not only the opportunities to be aware of fair but also a chance to learn more about the daily life of people.

Can Cau Market overview

Can Cau Market is located in the Simacai District, Lao Cai Province. This is an ethnic market where various ethnic groups’ traditional customs and habits, such as the Flower H’Mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Nung, and Dzay, are still practiced. Can Cau Market is only open from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. on every Saturday.

Best Things to Do in Can Cau Market

Can Cau Market is a meeting place for minority ethnic groups to exchange community culture, with a lot of different locals who come from the different ethnic villages around Simacai District at the market, exploring this local market, the tourists will have a chance to see a lot of beautiful and splendid dresses with the giant flower butterflies of the ethnic girls and women in this market, or the tourist could also buy the bags which are made by hand by the own locals as souvenirs to give to their friends and family in an impressive place such as Can Cau Market.

The goods in this market are displayed to sell in a very simple manner, even the locals only require a raincoat to unfold in the soil, after which they place their products to sell and exchange goods.

The market is also divided into many different areas for doing business, such as the brocade area, the tool area, the animal area…., but the most interesting area is the place for the traditional restaurants with the local food and dishes, if you set foot at Can Cau Market is you should go to a local’s small restaurant that is decorated very simply to enjoy the special and local food that is cooked directly by the locals at here, it is very cheap and characteristic.

How to travel to Can Cau Market?

Can Cau Market is now easily accessible from the center of Lao Cai province, or the Lao Cai Railway Station (about 2-2.5hours by driving), where the night train from Hanoi to Lao Cai (Sapa) will stop, or from the center of Sapa town (about 3hours by driving), which is the most famous place in Sapa, northern Vietnam.

If you are visiting Sapa on a Saturday, you should not miss out on visiting this unique market, to which you will want to return once you have seen this famous and unique destination.

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