Quảng Bá Flower Market

This guide to Quảng Bá Flower Market in Hanoi follows the city's busiest hour, when motorbikes stacked with roses and peach blossom stream up the dyke road while the rest of Hanoi sleeps. It traces how the trade started almost by accident at a nearby crossroads, then shifted here onto Au Co street when Tay Ho district was carved out in 1996, growing into the north's largest wholesale flower market. Come before two in the morning to catch the trucks still arriving.