Xishuangbanna | Experience the exotic charm of the Six-Country Night Market

| Experience the exotic charm of the Six-Country Night Market.| Embark on an adventure to Asia's largest starlight night market! The night view here is breathtakingly beautiful, with dazzling lights, as if you are in a fairy tale world. 🏰 The starlight night market, lit up at dusk, is adjacent to the Lancang River, where the night market is resplendent with lights and bustling with crowds. The first thing you encounter in the night market are groups of beautiful young ladies dressed in Dai, Hani, and other ethnic costumes, with exquisite makeup, surrounded by photographers carrying long guns and cannons. 🤸🏻‍♂️ Travel tips: 1️⃣ From left to right, it's mainly a shopping area. Earrings, woven hats, skirts, handmade jewelry, and ornaments are the main items, with prices ranging from tens to hundreds of yuan, but it depends on your own eye to find the good stuff. 2️⃣ If you're with friends, in addition to tasting the local snacks, you can enjoy the breeze in the barbecue area along the river, eat barbecue, and watch water performances. It's also a rare experience. 3️⃣ Bars are mainly concentrated in the shops at both ends of the Starlight Market, with some more located near the Six-Country Water Market. Personally, I prefer these open-air bars, which are especially suitable for couples and best friends. By the Mekong River, with the night breeze blowing, having a cold beer, you can fully enjoy the exotic charm of Southeast Asia. 4️⃣ Regarding the Dai and Wa ethnic costumes that are all over the streets, prices start at 199 yuan. However, you have to queue up, and one photographer takes two or three people (it's kind of a rip-off). If you want more freedom, you can buy a set yourself, which is not expensive, and take photos however you like. I think it's quite cost-effective (although it does test your own photography skills). 🍚 Recommended food: Wan Thai - a dessert shop that I think is quite delicious, with a surprisingly good taste of chocolate sticky milk. If you like chocolate, you must try it. Coconut jelly and Bualoy are also highly recommended, and it's suggested to go to the third store, where there are fewer people and no queues. Thai Banna Select designer Thai restaurant - The colorful coconut cake is very tasty and suitable as a dessert after a meal, and the seafood fried noodles and spring rolls are also good. Thai Coconut Heaven Fragrance·Six-Country Cuisine - The curry shrimp is fresh, and the Laotian spring lotus egg is very appetizing and recommended to try. 📸 Recommended photo spots: ▶️ Starlight Night Market empty stall: Facing the big golden pagoda, stand on the central axis, retreat as far as possible and keep it low, keep it level, the person faces the big golden pagoda and walks, wide-angle shot, monopolizing the feeling of an entire scenic spot. ▶️ Stairs of the big golden pagoda: The person stands on the central axis, the camera position is on the platform's centerline, take a low wide-angle shot, including the two luxurious dragon handrails, giving a very grand feeling. ▶️ Starlight Night Market red brick building area: Go up the steps along the central axis, symmetrical on both sides, find a position where you can capture the tip of the big golden pagoda, the person walks upwards, the camera position is below the big steps looking up, creating a rich composition. ▶️ White walls of the big golden pagoda: Take a photo of the main body of the big golden pagoda under the white walls on both sides of the pagoda, combining the plants on both sides, lower the camera position a few steps, in a quiet corner, very artistic. ❤️ Everyone has different preferences, and there are more ways to play that you need to discover and explore yourself~