Colorful Muong Khuong market
Muong Khuong Market is the largest market in Muong Khuong district, meeting on Sunday mornings every week. All activities, economic exchanges, culture and identity of the people here are depicted through this fair.When coming to Muong Khuong Market, the first thing visitors feel is the friendliness of the people here, they are mostly ethnic people of the Mong, Nung, Pa Di ethnic groups with sincerity and closeness. People come to the market, almost everyone knows each other, because both buyers and sellers are local people. Different from the quick trade in the town market, where the stalls of the upland market are not only offered to buy, ask for prices, but surrounded by so many love stories. In addition to the attractive cup of corn wine, they also asked each other about the upland fields and houses, and about the children, the wives, and the husband.
Various types of chili powder, dried chilli and chili sauce are available for sale.
Like many other highland markets, visitors will come across trimming rows of mixed and brocade goods that are colorfully displayed. Far away is a row of corn wine sales of local people, an indispensable “specialty” in every market, with a pungent, aromatic smell faintly and attractive. In particular, you cannot ignore the hot peppers, dried chili and chili sauce. It would be incomplete if anyone came to Muong Khuong fair without buying a bottle of chili sauce as a gift for family and friends. Here many herbs such as ventricular tubers, ventricular flower buds, star anise, cinnamon ... and folk remedies of the ethnic groups here also are sold. These stalls attract the attention of many visitors to Muong Khuong fair, because they want to buy as gifts or buy traditional remedies and traditional medicine to support their healing.
The corner of the nightingale market is always lively in every market.
Unique and rare feature of Muong Khuong market is horse market and corner of nightingale market, which always attracts the attention of many visitors when coming here. Muong Khuong nightingale market has been known far and near, nightingale player come here to “hunt birds” in the market. Therefore, even at the edge of the market, the corner of nightingale market is crowded and vibrant. Moreover, this market also sells bird cages, handicraft products made by local people as well as favorite foods for nightingale.
Muong Khuong Fair with colorful colors will make a deep impression in the hearts of every traveler, so that anyone who has the opportunity to set foot here wants to mingle, discover all the special features of the upland fair./.
