(Baonghean.vn) - Each person carried a bunch of wild vegetables, a few gourds, squash, and a rooster to the market while it was still foggy. At around 7am, the buying and selling of products ended, and people began to enter the main market area to buy consumer goods.
Image at Tri Le highland market (Que Phong) in the "extra" morning session:
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| To carry melons to Tri Le market to sell, many Mong people in remote villages follow a trail 10-20 km away from the market, so they have to leave at 2 am to make it in time for the market. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| Today, Xong Thi Ly and her son only brought two roosters to Tri Le market to sell to buy other essential goods. She said that the chickens at home are mainly raised on hills, have delicious meat, are easy to sell, and cost from 150,000 - 170,000 VND/kg. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| Sea fish are also sold at Tri Le market and many people come to buy them. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| Some of the specialty vegetables grown by the Thai people are sold at the market for 5,000 VND/small bunch. These are all clean vegetables so they are easy to sell; according to traders, most of the vegetables grown here are transported to Kim Son town for sale. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| Pumpkin, a specialty of the Que Phong highlands, costs up to 8,000 VND/kg, but because the market is far away, people can only carry a few pumpkins each trip. Photo: XH |
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| In addition to vegetables, fruits, fresh food... at the "secondary" session of Tri Le market, there are also vegetable seeds of all kinds for sale. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| According to traders at Tri Le market, after selling all their goods in the early morning session, they go to the main market to buy all kinds of goods. This is a market in a border commune, so every day there are people from Laos who come to buy, so the goods are consumed quite quickly. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| This Mong man chose to buy a banana knife at a shop in Tri Le market. The seller said that the banana knives are produced in blacksmiths in the lowlands and sold for 50,000 VND each, and are popular with the people. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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| Mr. Vi Van Cuong - Chairman of Tri Le Commune People's Committee said: Tri Le Market has 70 stalls selling consumer goods from clothes, farming tools, iron products... dried food... mainly from people from the lowlands who come to do business. Every year, the locality collects about 70 - 80 million VND in taxes at the market. Every morning, there are trucks collecting garbage, so the market is always clean. The food selling area of the market only takes place for about 3 hours, from 4 am to 7 am every day. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
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