Bac Ha way out East Vietnam

Took the train up the Red River valley to Bac Ha. A local bus up into the hills, to a dusty agricultural town, where the local ethnic minority, Flower Hmong come to sell their produce. Breathtaking, the women dressed in bright hand-woven dresses, with colourful headgear and matching wrap around putties. All manner of local produce for sale, plums, corn liquor and vegetables to be traded for orange juice, bikkies, ag implements, pesticides livestock and pretty baubles for embellish the clothing. 5pm it was all over, the market empty, tourist buses gone, we had the town, hotel and the staff who became our friends all to ourselves, just how we love it.