Visiting Coc Ly Market

The next day Pham and a driver picked us up around 8am to drive 2 1/2 hrs into the hills to the Coc Ly market.

Cock Ly market outside Sapa vietnam

This is a smaller market attended primarily by the colorful Tay tribe. They come to the market to buy everything from fabrics and beads, to meats and tobacco.

The butcher on a table.

Smoking something

Shopping for fabric

They also come to the market to eat. Some food you recognize and other food you don’t. There are some tourists and the sellers who sell to them but not all that much. They only know a few words like “Ma’dam, you buy from me?” but that is OK since the only words i know in vietnamese are “khong, cam on” which is “No, thank you”.

Cooking intestines, i think

leggings are in

Eating noodles

The amazing thing is that in the rural far northern hill country of Vietnam, they get better cell phone reception than i do at our house...come on ATT!!!!

Girl with cell phone

Women selling in market