The Khau Vai Love Market Festival in 2018 will be held in two days from May 11 to May 12 (26 to 27/3 lunar months in Meo Vac town and Khau Vai commune (Meo Vac district, Ha Giang province) at the district level.
Khau Vai love market has a history of nearly 100 years. According to some documents, the market is from 1919. Market is located in Khau Vai commune, Meo Vac district, Ha Giang, Vietnam and only once a year on March 27 lunar calendar. Derived from a sad love story, Khau Vai love market - the most famous "adultery" market in Ha Giang. This is an opportunity for people to find each other, after a year (may be many years) away, mainly people who have real love relationship, but for some reason do not take each other has their own destiny. Right on this day, they are dating here to confide, inform each other their own life, review the old feelings.
The festival carries the traditional cultural values of local people, meaning to enrich the spiritual life of people of ethnic groups in the Dong Van Plateau. At present, Meo Vac district (Ha Giang province) is actively preparing for this great festival.
This is also the place to exchange and meet the beautiful folk culture of the people of Meo Vac ethnic groups, creating points to promote tourism, attract tourists to Meo Vac and Khau love market Vai in particular, the global geological park Dong Van Rocky Plateau in general.
The opening ceremony of the Khau Vai Love Market Festival in 2018 will take place on the evening of 11/5/2018 at the Khau Vai commune with the theme "Ru tinh Khau Vai", including activities: reappear "Love Story of Khau Vai"; singing controversy; fire dance of the Lo Lo ethnic minority in Xieng Cai commune; dance on trees of Lo Lo, Meo Vac town; drums of the Giay ethnic group, Na Trao village, Tat Nga commune; New Year's Dao dance. At the same day, there are also other attractive activities.
In the itinerary trip Khau Vai love market in Ha Giang, visitors also visited the places such as Quan Ba sky gate, Lung Cu flag tower, conquered Ma Pi Leng pass, Vuong Family's Residence, Dong Van old quarter ... At present, this festival is becoming a tourist product of Ha Giang province, attracting many domestic and foreign tourists because of its unique and traditional cultural identity.