VietNamNet Bridge – A market has been operating on the Da Trang mountain pass by Muong ethnic people for more than ten years. This is the place where ethnic minority people sell products they collect from the jungle.

The market is a chain of tents built by Muong people from Tam village

in Phu Cuong commune, Tan Lac district, the northern province of Hoa Binh.

The market is located near National Road 6 from Hanoi to Moc Chau plateau.

In the cold spell that has covered northern Vietnam since early January,

Muong women still carry forest produces by papooses to the market.

Tam villagers go to the market at 8 am. It takes them 20 minutes

to walk to the market and only 10 minutes when they return because the village is in the valley.

Maize is the major good sold at the market.

To confront the cold weather, sellers always sit near the maize pots.

Mustard green is also a specialty of this region.

A foreign tourist taste “com lam” (rice cooked in bamboo cylinders).

The colder it is, the fewer customers there are.

Forest vegetable, honey…

Anh Le