From central highlands district of Meo Vac (Ha Giang), turn your face up and the road to Khau Vai looks like a rope over the mountain sides. This hill town is 155 km of bumpy mountain road from Ha Giang, bending like a silver snake along immense black ranges of car-ear rocks.

24 km from Meo Vac, vehicles are seen in distance skirting along steep cliffs, over the foggy peak of Lung Pu, down to the slippery dirt road of Khau Vai. The market is perched on top of a bow-shaped hill, deep into a foggy valey of simple wooded houses side by side

Khau Vai love market is opened only once a year, from late evening of lunar March 26 until late morning of the next day. Although called a market, there is no trading activity, it is a place where lovers of all ages come to see their old partners who could not wed together

The market opens at night, husbands and wives come to market together however they look for their own partners, women from Giay ethnic minority, men from Hmong community can walk for 3, 4 days to the market, waiting silently for their partners....

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