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Vietnam’s Love Market

Hoangvantoanajc, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Each spring, hundreds of people from Vietnam’s northern hill tribes, including the Tày, Nùng, Giáy and Hmong, trek—some for days—across vegetation-rich rocky cliffs to attend an age-old event: the Khau Vai love market. The annual celebration is an opportunity for singletons to find love and for old flames, who never married for various reasons, to reunite.