Phiêng Khoài commune (Yên Châu district, Sơn La province) recently inaugurated its 2024 highland market. With nearly 30 stalls, this year's highland market showcases, introduces, and supplies characteristic products from the highland communes of Yên Châu and border villages of neighboring Laos.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Phiêng Khoài Border Highland Market began with an art program themed "The Flavors and Colors of the Highlands," performed by professional and amateur actors from the Yên Châu District Communication and Culture Center, the Chiềng On Border Guard Post, and the villages of Phiêng Khoài commune. The songs and dances praising the Party, the beloved President Ho Chi Minh, the renewed Sơn La province, and the solidarity and friendship between Vietnam and Laos attracted a large audience of tourists and local people who came to watch and cheer.
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An art program with the theme "Colors and Flavors of the Highlands" at the Phiêng Khoài border highland market. Photo: TTVH.
The Phiêng Khoài Border Highland Market in 2024 will take place from August 31st to September 2nd, 2024, featuring nearly 30 stalls showcasing and supplying characteristic products from the highland communes of Chiềng Tương, Mường Lựm, Lóng Phiêng, Yên Sơn, Chiềng On, and border villages of Laos. These include: ethnic costumes, souvenirs, traditional handicrafts of ethnic minorities in the highlands; diverse and abundant agricultural products and traditional cuisine, meticulously prepared and attractively decorated, offering many interesting and surprising experiences for visitors and shoppers.
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The Phiêng Khoài border highland market features nearly 30 stalls displaying, introducing, and supplying characteristic products from the highland communes of Yên Châu district. Photo: TTVH
The market fair is one of the activities celebrating the 79th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day on September 2nd. Through it, goods from the people on both sides of the Vietnam-Laos border are introduced, promoted, and exchanged; creating a close link between businesses and the people, promoting production and business. At the same time, it attracts tourists from inside and outside the province to experience, exchange, cooperate, and seek investment opportunities.
The market will feature cultural and artistic exchange activities, sports, and folk games such as stick pushing, tug-of-war, tu lu, and football.
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Cultural exchange activities, arts and crafts, sports, and folk games at the Phiêng Khoài border highland market. (Photo: TTVH)
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