Situated on the road to Kuangsi Waterfall and can be accessible from town with an about 5-minute bicycle or tuk-tuk ride, the newly constructed Talat Phosi, where you can find a lot of flesh products, meat, household goods and clothing is the largest market in Luang Prabang.
Phosi Market – source: justgola.com
In the three quarters of covered space, you can see several hundred merchants of all types propounding a wide range of products. You can find there school materials, hardware, small stalls selling clothes usually in the Chinese style, vegetable gardeners as well as merchants for health products, etc. Tours Indochina Laos
In this market, you can also find products having origin from everywhere, from Laos (not very many manufactured products, besides the very famous Beerlao), products made by Chinese and Thai together with indirectly, everything that has any relationship whatever with food and that is produced by local producers.
As coming across in this market, you will be attracted by various smells. Due to the small amount of air here, the atmosphere in this area is a little bit heavy. But even so it is such an ideal place to take in the real feelling of the diverse activities of Luang Prabang and the provinces nearby. All these men and happy Laotians, with consecutive talks and laughs, the large number of products on the stalls owned by Laotians who usually speak nothing else except Laotian. All of them together with the unremitting comings and goings of the tuk tuks, make it a market you should not miss when coming to Luang Prabang. Laos travel tours
Fresh produce – source: travelgluttons.com
Silvery, slippery things spleenfully snap their tails sending a move of water out of the bucket. Anonymous creatures with small paws frizzle on a grill. There are masses of limes, piles of chilli, heaps of sticky rice, towering flats of eggs of all shapes, sizes and colors. Vibrant vegetables, pungent jungle herbs – sniff the small bundles of mysterious bark, feel the pillowy mushrooms with your fingers, their medicinal flavor mixing with the sweet ripe smell blasting from the pineapples. Bumpy chicken feet intrude upward from carcasses on a table, a wonderful still life. Surprisingly, you will feel something expose and squish underfoot.
Also spelled Phousy or Phosy, Phosi Market that is the largest market in Luang Prabang is an excellent spot if you want to immerse yourself in local life. It supplies the entire town. It is highly recommended to be there early (at around 6-8am) to observe it at its highest point of busyness. While the Morning market of Luang Prabang is closer, you will be missing more and more travelers taking nice photos than actual locals going shopping and the experience pales in comparison.
Phosi Market is an ideal spot to know more about the lifestyle of locals in Luang Prabang – source: justgola.com
For the faint or squeamish, a walk through the fresh market of Phosi, whose atmosphere is full of fascinating, raw and real, is not a good idea. Here, you will even see the special ingredients that you have never expected before. Follow your nose to or keep your eye out for the buckets of decaying fish floating in mutinous brown sticky substance. Lao fish sauce or “padek” is one of the most important ingredients in Lao cuisine.
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