For almost tourists traveling in Laos, Luang Prabang is a destination that they cannot miss in any trip to Laos. Luang Prabang is filled with various things to see and it will take so many days for you to fully explore all these things. Therefore, when visiting Luang Prabang, if you cannot spend much time here, you should consider carefully what you really want to see. Among them, Luang Prabang Night Market is one of the best things to see that you cannot miss in your trip.
Luang Prabang Night Market is located along Sisavangvong Road from the Royal Palace Museum to Th Kitsarat, closing this section of the street off to motor vehicles. The market is open daily from 5pm to about 10pm. Luang Prabang Night Market is also called “handicraft night market” because it has perhaps the most extensive collection of handicrafts for sale in the country, with a wide variety of textiles, clothing, carvings, basketry, quilts, and much more. Additionally, the market is also filled with T-shirts bearing Luang Prabang iconography, and prints and paintings that capture the town’s characters. Every evening a kilometer-long stretch of road is closed to vehicle traffic and turned into a walking and shopping street while the market takes place. Indochina travel
Luang Prabang Night Market
Every night, Luang Prabang Night Market has more than 300 handicraft vendors selling their hand-made products. The market sells an extensive variety of handicrafts made by local ethnic groups including many types of textiles, exquisite ceramics, antiques, paintings, coffee and tea, quilts, shoes, silver, bags, bamboo lamps of different shades and sizes, and even rare spices. You can find every interesting items in the night market, which are hard to find in elsewhere. Fortunately, these items are all cheap. So if you are not good at bargaining, you can be still sure that you will get good value. However, amongst the items that appear to be handicraft, it can sometimes be tricky for newcomers to decipher what are the authentic Lao products and what are cheap imported Chinese, Thai or Vietnamese rip offs so anyone looking for the genuine article can get a bit confused. Tours in Laos
The market sells an extensive variety of handicrafts made by local ethnic groups
Moreover, in Luang Prang Night Market, if you are not interested in shopping, you can wander around chatting with the vendors will enrich your Lao cultural experience. If you ask about their merchandise most will be cheerfully accommodate your query. Most local traders in the Luang Prabang night market speak little English. The night market also has food and drinks which are available if you want to enjoy local food. There is a large variety of Lao food ranging from BBQ chicken and sticky rice to a well stocked vegetarian buffet for you to choose from. Travel to Laos
Food and drinks are available in Luang Prabang Night Market
It can be said that the most popular shopping experience in Luang Prabang is Luang Prabang Night Market, where women from the surrounding villages have been coming to sell their hand-made and natural local products for years. A lot of handicrafts as well as food and drinks make this market a great way to spend an evening in town. However, the night market is not the only place to find authentic Lao handicrafts. There are several businesses around town that promote and sell all kinds of beautiful, sustainable Lao products including items quite different from what you will find in the night market. So in your visit in Luang Prabang, besides Luang Prabang Night Market, you can spend additional time on visiting these businesses to enjoy fully authentic Lao handicrafts.
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