In the small town of Bac Ha in Northern Vietnam exist a Sunday market that drips with local culture. All of the hilltribes from the local mountains come to market on Sundays as if it were teenagers going to a mall in New Jersey!
Bac Ha Market Vietnam.
Every Sunday the ethnic hill tribes dress in their best to come out for market day. A pallette of colors dot the market!
The locals of colorful Bac Ha Market in Northern Vietnam.
An Old Order Mennonite woman sells summer sausages, a local specialty, in the sheltered porch of the St. Jacobs Farmers Market.
Sapa is chock full of colorfully dressed ethnic minority tribes. These Red Dao women are sporting the original backpack.
A traditional dance performance in Udaipur, India. The women always kept their faces covered, yet not a single one ran into each other!
'Quechquemitl of industrial and handspun cotton, plain and curved weaves, embroidered in cross stitch; blouse of industrial cotto muslin, embroidered with mercerized cotton in running stitch; sash of handspun wool colored with synthetic dyes, plain weave; wrap-around skirt of handspun wool, upper webs of plain weave, bottom web of double weave in cotton and wool dyed with synthetic purple.' Yuhu (Otomi) people of the Northern Sierra, Puebla, Mexico. In the Capilla de Rosario.
In the centuries-old Capilla de Rosario, dozens of handmade mannequins help bring to life traditional dress from Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Congo, Peru, Japan, China and all over Mexico.
I took off my shoes and started up the stairs to the Ranakpur Temple in Rajasthan, India. I stopped when I heard women laughing and singing in the distance.