Sa Pa’s love market has become unique in the culture of the Mong and Dao ethnic groups for a long time. Due to the distance between the villages, the market meets once a week on Sunday. On the Saturday night, guys and girls from all villages come to Lao Cai to meet one another. They talk, sing and play different games according to their ethnic groups tradition. After the night, many couples become intimate and promise to see each other again on the following morning. Many of them become husbands and wives in the spring. That is why the poets in Lao Cai called the market Sa Pa’s Love Market. Since Saturday afternoon, many girls show up in colorful costumes. The little bells on their outfits add to the festive atmosphere of the city. They look for the guys dressing in traditional clothes of the same colors who hold in their hand small radio blaring cheerful songs. People stand in groups, singing and dancing their traditional dances until the night comes. The most popular Love Market in Lao Cai is organized in nowhere else but Sa Pa, where it is gaining more and more attention of not only the ethnic people but also the travelers from many places in the world. T F 21 Love Market is a weekly tradition of Mong and Dao peoples. 22. All girls and boys from all villages come to Love Market in Lao Cai on the Saturday night. 23. The little bells on the boys’ outfits are for adding the festive atmosphere of the city. 24. Singing and dancing are part of Love Market’s activities. 25. Sapa is the only place in Vietnam to have Love Market. điền t F