Shopping in Sapa

Sapa shopping is characterized by the ever-present and persistent local women and girls trying to offload all manner of supposedly traditional handicrafts. Sapa is the best  places to visit in vietnam.

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The range of merchandise available in Sapa covers handicrafts from a large number of different hill tribes who trek surprisingly long distances to sell their products here.

Shopping in Sapa is a great experience. Get the best deals, learn about the best places to shop in Sapa Vietnam from our guide below; then stop for some finger food, or relax in one of the Sapa Restaurants. Com to Sapa in autumn is the best time to visit vietnam 

Sapa Shopping Guide

The different brightly colored and highly decorative fabrics and garment from the different hilltribes are popular purchases. Liquor is the hot item in Bac Ha. The list we have collected below should give you a place to start looking for that special something. We haven’t created a list since the central market (of both Sapa and Bac Ha) are really the only places you are likely to find anything you might be looking for.

Clothing

Locally available clothing includes shirts made from Sapa fabric sold by the ethnic minority women, cheap t-shirts in the market, and more up-market cotton and linen shirts with elements of tribal weaving. There are also some good quality knock off jackets in the market.

Jewellery

There are several stalls in the upper part of the market selling silver jewellery, as well as a few shops on Cau May. Many of the H’mong women also sell the bangles from their wrists and the decorative combs in their hair.

Weaving

H’mong and Red Dzao women sell beautifully stitched items on the street side, ranging from small pouches to bags and bed covers. There are also some beautiful textile shops on Cau May with a range of cushion and bed covers.

Hiking Gear

Forgot your rain jacket? Need a day pack for a hike? Want a warm fleece jacket or some solid hiking boots? Hiking equipment is available in numerous stores around the market. It may or may not be genuine, but much of the gear available is high quality.

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Ngoc Vung Island still keeps its wild and peaceful beauty

Ngoc Vung Island (also called Ngoc Island) measures approximately about 45 square kilometers. It is located between 2 small rock islands of Van Don District, Quang Ninh Provinces. They are Hon Net and Phuong Hoang Island. According to the legend, the name Ngoc Vung Island has come from the fact that this area has many rare species of pearl mussel.

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Ngoc Vung island is also called Ngoc Island

Nowadays, growing pearl mussel is the most developed activity here. Besides, fishers also feed some kinds of seafood like shrimp, fish, squid, etc.  The amount of freshwater here is much enough for growing rice. Thanks to the subsistence farming of the locals, this place still keeps its beauty instinctively.

Growing pearl mussels is the most developed activity here

Ngoc Vung beach is located at the south of the island. It’s the most attractive place with quiet seashore and green lines of casuarina.

Ngoc Vung Island is located between Hon Net and Phuong Hoang Island

There aren’t very many people living in this small town. It also has few motels so this place is more suitable for discovering rather than relaxing. Around Ngoc Vung Island, you can enjoy the beauty of Van Xuan Mountain, Cong Yen old pier, Mac and Nguyen dynasty Ancient Citadels, etc. The only public transportation on these one ways along the beach is auto rickshaw.

A quiet seashore

Seafood here is quite cheap and tasty. There are very few food shops so you might order the meal at local’s house.

Cheap and tasty seafood

To come to this Island, tourists can rent the ship or buy the ticket at some piers including Ha Long, Ben Do, and Cai Rong.  It takes about 2 hours to arrive to Ngoc Vung Island.

Wild and peaceful scene of the seashore

Ngoc Vung has no internet connection or phone signal. There’s only the moon, the waves, the sky full of stars and the sound of frogs at night. Enjoying this wild and peaceful scene is the best way to forget the your busy and tired life.

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Ha Long Bay – An beautiful painting of nature

Two times recognized by UNESCO as the World Heritage Site, and came top New 7 Wonders of Nature that might be all enough to let us know how awesome Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay is. Indeed, its outstanding aesthetic importance and exceptional natural beauty makes this Wonder a great pride of the whole nation.

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Ha Long Bay is situated in the Gulf of Tonkin, covering an area of over 43,000 hectares with 1,696 islands and islets that all have formed a magnificent seascape of limestone pillars. In fact, Ha Long’s exceptional beauty is created by the perfect blend of immense water, variety shaped limestone islands and very bright sky, making a very best work of art. Ha Long’s sea seems always the same years to years. It’s so smooth, blue and still all the time.

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Ha Long Bay – A Priceless Treasure of Vietnam

Amazingly, the very own beauty of Ha Long Bay, somehow, changes by seasons. If green buds of plants burst on limestone islands in spring, giving the sea a fresh look, summer’s sparkling sunlight reflecting on the calm sea surface seems to brighten up every corner of the Bay. But in autumn, the clear moonlight brilliantly shines on limestone islands that look like gleaming pearls on the sea. As winter comes with heavy frost, Ha Long possesses a mysterious but so glamorous look.

Mysterious beauty of Ha Long Bay on a winter day

In a nutshell, the beauty of Ha Long, definitely, can’t be fully expressed by words. With a large number of untouched limestone islands and islets rising from the sea, Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay really presents an unbelievable seascape given by Mother Nature, coming together with invaluable geomorphologic and biodiversity values. That’s everything we can say about it!!! The only way to exactly know how awesome it looks is that just come and see by your own eyes!!!

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