Very few tourists are attending Khau Vai Market.
Every week, the market in Khau Vai commune takes place and waiting for you to discover it.
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The event, which is one of a number of regular outdoor markets in the northern mountainous region, is dedicated to ethnic minority people who once
fell in love but were unable to marry and reunite once a year to reminisce about their ill-fated love affair.
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It has become an appealing tourism attraction for both domestic and foreign visitors because of its unique and intact traditional cultural identity.
The festival take place over a large area, spreading from Meo Vac and its main road to the Khau Vai district.
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The Khau Vai festival main activities include a trade-tourism fair, a performance describing the rain worshipping ritual of the Lo Lo ethnic minority
people and a ceremony to receive the certificate to recognise it as an intangible cultural heritage.
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Cupid-struck people from various ethnic minority groups.
Legend has it that a certain Giay girl from Ha Giang province fell in love with a Nung boy from the neighbouring province of Cao Bang.
The tribe the girl belonged to didn't approve the alliance and a bloody conflict ensued between the two tribes. Seeing the tragic end to their love, the two lovers
decided to part ways but made a secret pact to meet once a year on the 27th day of the third lunar month in Khau Vai.
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Visitors will have a chance to witness the beauty of the highland girls in their traditional costumes of the ethnic minority groups in Ha Giang.
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The market perched on top of a bow-shaped hill 350 km north of Hanoi is opened only once a year, a time eagerly awaited by lovers of all ages.
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Wines flow down the streets. The panoramic view of the vast horizon stretching beyond the greens add to the mood of the lunar day in Khau Vai.
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