destionation of Vietnam
Ha Giang Province
Ha Giang province is the final frontier on northern Vietnam, a lunar landscape of limestone pinnacles and granite outcrops. You won't want to miss it to your Vietnam tours because it should be not only one of the most popular destinations in this region, but also one of those rare provinces that still requires a travel permit and the bureaucratic baloney keeps most at bay. Plan a Vietnam tours in Ha Giang, you will experence something you never experienced before.
Scenery aside, the other major drawcard in Ha Giang is the annual love market of khau vai. Forget the weekly jamboree in Sapa: this love market takes place but once a year and draws H’mong, Dao and Tay from all over the region. The love market is speed dating minority style. Original swingers, the good folk of Khau Vai have been wife swapping, and husband swapping for that matter, for almost 100 years. Youngsters come to find a mate. Old flames fan the dying embers of lost passion. It is adult friend finder before the internet made it easy. However, they are not in the market for westerners.
It takes place on the 27th day of the 3rd lunar month in Vietnamese calender. For those of us that don’t know our dogs from our dragonsm that is usually sometime from late April to mid-May, essentially three months after Tet or Vietnamese New Year. Khau Vai is about 20km southeast to Meo Vac.Make this special experience included in your Vietnam tours, and get a better idea how minority people live their life.
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