When talking about Hanoi, we often hear the phrase “Hanoi is most beautiful at night”. This saying partly speaks to the shimmering beauty of Hanoi when the street lights up. Hanoi is beautiful at night not only by the different shimmering colors of lights from busy streets, streets or tall buildings, but also by the breath and rhythm of urban life when the sun sets its shadow. behind the clouds. To fully feel all that beauty, perhaps Long Bien wholesale market is a place worth exploring if you have the opportunity to visit Hanoi overnight.
Long Bien market when the sun has not set – Photo: UN Women Asia & the Pacific
Long Bien wholesale market, also known as Long Bien market, is located near Long Bien bridge and in the territory of Ba Dinh district, Hanoi. The market has been in operation for more than 20 years, is an important trading place of Ba Dinh district. Long Bien Market is also a familiar meeting place for many traders from many places who flock here to trade and trade.
On a road leading to Long Bien market – Photo: SOUVIK
Long Bien Market is a bustling and large commercial area. The market is crowded, not during the fairs or trading back and forth during the day, but when the street lights up, when the town goes into a peaceful sleep after a busy working day. This is probably the reason that many people call Long Bien market with a special name – the “sleepless” market in Hanoi.
Long Bien market when night falls is busy and bustling – Photo: Doug Tunney
Long Bien is a wholesale market, so the products sold here are also very diverse; especially vegetables, fruits and other agricultural products. Coming to Long Bien market, you can always come across fruit stalls, shops selling agricultural products, and offers that create a special attraction for those who come here for the first time.
Fruit stalls at Long Bien wholesale market – Photo: Nguyen Trung Anh
Long Bien Market is only unusually crowded and bustling around 10pm onwards. Coming to Long Bien market at this time, you will see convoys of busy merchants pouring in. The convoys carrying agricultural products can come from small provinces such as Bac Ninh, Ha Nam, Phu Tho… or from Chinese traders, but they all gather here to create a crowded market. , the busiest second in Ha Thanh.
Convoys of merchant vehicles at Long Bien market – Photo: DucLinh Nguyen
Walking on Long Bien Bridge, listening to the noisy sounds of the market from above, you will feel extremely interesting. In the middle of the starry night, it seemed that the street would be silent, but here it was more crowded than ever. The sound of greetings and the carriages carrying goods one after another will give us different feelings about the life of the people who follow the market all year round.
Long Bien wholesale market seen from Long Bien bridge – Photo: Mr. Dung Do
An interesting information about Long Bien market is that Gobackpacking magazine once ranked Long Bien market as one of five interesting markets in Southeast Asia. The interesting point of the market is most clearly shown through the rhythm of nightlife: bustling, noisy, boisterous. Never before has there been a bustling, noisy sound that makes people feel so excited.
Goods are transported from merchants’ trucks – Photo: M Huy
The market “doesn’t sleep” is bustling at night – Photo: Doug Tunney
Life is always bustling and so is the life of people in Long Bien market. Visiting the night market, you will have the opportunity to see heavy carts, loaded with agricultural products, stepping out of the market gate to different directions. Those cars belong to people in many different places who flock here to buy agricultural products to prepare for their early market tomorrow. Those small people have great strength in them, rising above the increasingly harsh life that is challenging their hands and feet.
The feet hurry to transport their agricultural products – Photo: Bao Vu
Farmers are rushing to transport agricultural products to the car – Photo: Jesse4870
The market is quite crowded and bustling, so if you want to visit the stalls in the market, you also need to pay attention so as not to bump into groups of people transporting agricultural products. One piece of advice for you is that you can stand in a dark corner somewhere, maybe on the historic Long Bien bridge, watching and feeling the rhythm of life and the breath of the night market. This will surely be an interesting experience and give you a more comprehensive view of people and life.
Watching the hustle and bustle of Long Bien market – Photo: Annapurna Mellor
The market is always crowded from night until dawn. When it’s morning, all the previously noisy sounds will gradually subside. That is also the time when the market goes quiet, people return to their trading lives. The pace of life in Long Bien market is always in contrast to the life outside. It is always bustling, bustling when the city sleeps and returns to quiet when the street is more crowded and busier. This is a special feature that creates a “sleepless” night market of Hanoi city.
Agricultural products are transported to Long Bien market – Photo: DucLinh Nguyen
Long Bien Market is the same every day, whether it’s sunny or rainy, whether it’s summer or winter, the night market is always so bustling, creating a very unique feature of Hanoi. If you have not set foot here, quickly pack your backpack and accompany Mytour to visit Long Bien market to somewhat feel the bustling life of Hanoi at night.
Source: Collected internet.