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Red Zao minority, Sapa

Every weekend, the Red Zao women put on their finest clothings and elaborate headdress decorated with pom-poms, beads, dangling bells and coins to attend the matchmaking ritual at Sapa market.

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Red Zao minorities, Sapa

The most distinctive feature of Red Zao women are their shaved eyebrows and hairlines and especially their spectacular headdress. They are extremely camera shy - this was taken with zoom and blow-up.

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Cho Sapa

The Sapa market comes alive during weekends where hilltribers would trot into town to trade and particularly for the Red Zao, to attend the matchmaking activity at the same market. We awoke at 2am later to witness this ritual.

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Cho Sapa

Sugar cane on sale by the Hmong.

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Black Hmong minority

Hmong is the largest minority found in Sapa. They adorn black or dark blue clothings and Hmong women are identifiedby their large and heavy earrings, bracelets and necklaces.

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Black Hmong girls

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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A child or a woman?

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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These boots are made for walking ...

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Hilltribers at Sapa

Hilltribe children group together in an aggresive way to sell their handmade materials, where the line between hawking and begging becomes quite fuzzy.

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Choices ... choices ...

• Date: 21 December 2002
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• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Sapa

The spectacular view of Muong Hoa River Valley greeted us at the end of our hike.

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Rice terrace @ Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Rice Terrace @ Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
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Sapa

Sapa offers a pictureque combination of hill tribe villages, rice terraces, lush vegetation and features Vietnam's highest peak, Mount Fansipan @ 3134m. Also known as Tonkinese Alps, Sapa was built as a hill station during French colonial in the 1920s, to serve as a respite from stifling Hanoi summers.

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Floating on Clouds

Morning @ Sapa

• Date: 21 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Sa Pả, Vietnam: gallery
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Reflections

scene from a stopover to Halong Bay

• Date: 19 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Hạ Long, Vietnam: gallery
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Halong Bay, Vietnam

• Date: 19 December 2002
• Photographer: mingtravel: gallery
• Location: Hạ Long, Vietnam: gallery
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