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Vietnam challenging trekking holidays: Travel Hanoi Ha Giang Bac Ha Lao Cai (7 days)
The 7-day trekking tour is provided by Lotussia Travel in the remote northern Vietnam – Ha Giang province and Bac Ha district. Begin your adventure with a car transfer from Hanoi via Tuyen Quang to Ha Giang where you will begin your 7-day challenging trekking holidays. You trek along hillsides, through terraced rice fields and remote hill tribe villes, inhabited by the H’mong, the Dzao, the Tay, the Nung…This is a challenging trekking tour that require some preparation. There are about 6 – 7 hours trek per day and the hiking trail goes up and downhill. Accommodation is simple and basic since most of nights are spent at local homes (homestay). This hard trek is only recommended for small group tours and active, intrepid travelers, those seek a real trekking adventure holidays to the less travelled places. Contact Lotussia Travel for more details.
Itinerary:
Day 1: Ha Noi – Thong Nguyen (L,D).
8:30: You will be met up at your hotel in Hanoi by Lotussia Travel team and transferred to Thong Nguyen (Ha Giang Province). Enjoy several stops along the way for stunning scenery of the northern countryside and the Vietnam far north mountainous region.You will arrive in Thong Nguyen at about 5 pm. Check-in the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Thong Nguyen – Nam Son (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave the ecolodge following a small trail for about 2 km leading to the center of Thong Nguyen Commune.
We will trek uphill along a dirt trail for about 2 hours and then downhill for 1,5 hour passing by some small villages of the Nung ethnic.
Lunch will be provided en route.
After lunch, we continue trekking uphill along a magnificent valley, sneaking on mountain sides which offers great scenery of the villages of the Nung and Zao scattering around the valley.
We will arrive at the village around late afternoon.
Dinner and overnight in a local house (Homestay).
Day 3: Nam Son – Nam Li (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will say good bye to the Nung local host and continue trekking along a single dirt trail for 3 hours uphill passing two villages of the Dao peoples. This portion offers marvelous landscapes for its beauty of nature.
Lunch will be provided on the foot of a mountain.
The trail gets narrower in the afternoon, winding its way up and down hill for 4 hours through local hill tribe villages (Dao & Nung), and then bamboo and thick rain forest as well as tea plan tation.
We will arrive in Nam Li around late afternoon. Check-in homestay for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Nam Li – Che La (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave Nam Li at 08.30.
The trek today is a real challenge! The narrow dirt trail sneaks its way mostly uphill (from 370 m to 622 m high) through an untouched region, via several small villages of the Nung and Red Zao who will be very excited at meeting the first tourists to come to their villages.Then the trek goes through thick forest for nearly 2 hours to the top of the mountain range.After lunch break, the trail gets wider as we descend to another village is also an authentic one, inhabited by the H’mong people who used to grow poppy for opium production until recently. Spend an hour to explore this village before continue trekking downhill to the center of the commune.
We will arrive in Che La about 5,30 pm.
Check-in local house for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Che La – Nam Chien (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave Che La at 08.30.
It is an easy day today! The dirt path is large and gradually goes downhill for 4 hours, passing through tea plantation, terraced rice paddies and villages of the Nung, H’mong and Zao.
Lunch will be provided en route.
Once reaching the bottom of the valley, the group will injoy an hour by the clear water of a stream before trekking uphill for 2 km to the homestay where we will spend the night.
Dinner and overnight in local village.
Day 6 – Nam Chien – Song Ngam – Ban Gia – Bac Ha (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we leave Nam Chien at 08.30.
The first hour is an easy walk along a large path to Nam Dan. Here the group will spend ½ hour to admire a wonder: The rock field including some dozen rocks of different sizes and shapes bearing messages of the ancient men.Lunch en route.Then, we will follow a narrow trail for 2 hours uphill through the thick rain forest and then 3 hours downhill until we reach a H’mong in mid afternoon.
You will be picked up by Lotussia vehicle and transferred to Bac Ha.
Check-in hotel.
Dinner in a local restaurant in Bac Ha.
Day 7: Visit a regional tribal market – Overnight train to Ha Noi (B,L).
Today is a relaxing day! The group will attend one of the regional markets of the local tribal ethnics includes the Flower H’mong, Phu La, Tay…Lunch will be provided in a local restaurant in Bac Ha.In the afternoon, transfer to Lao Cai where you will take the overnight train back to Hanoi. Train ??? Departure at ??? (To be advised). End trip.
The 7-day trekking tour is provided by Lotussia Travel in the remote northern Vietnam – Ha Giang province and Bac Ha district. Begin your adventure with a car transfer from Hanoi via Tuyen Quang to Ha Giang where you will begin your 7-day challenging trekking holidays. You trek along hillsides, through terraced rice fields and remote hill tribe villes, inhabited by the H’mong, the Dzao, the Tay, the Nung…This is a challenging trekking tour that require some preparation. There are about 6 – 7 hours trek per day and the hiking trail goes up and downhill. Accommodation is simple and basic since most of nights are spent at local homes (homestay). This hard trek is only recommended for small group tours and active, intrepid travelers, those seek a real trekking adventure holidays to the less travelled places. Contact Lotussia Travel for more details.
Itinerary:
Day 1: Ha Noi – Thong Nguyen (L,D).
8:30: You will be met up at your hotel in Hanoi by Lotussia Travel team and transferred to Thong Nguyen (Ha Giang Province). Enjoy several stops along the way for stunning scenery of the northern countryside and the Vietnam far north mountainous region.You will arrive in Thong Nguyen at about 5 pm. Check-in the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Thong Nguyen – Nam Son (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave the ecolodge following a small trail for about 2 km leading to the center of Thong Nguyen Commune.
We will trek uphill along a dirt trail for about 2 hours and then downhill for 1,5 hour passing by some small villages of the Nung ethnic.
Lunch will be provided en route.
After lunch, we continue trekking uphill along a magnificent valley, sneaking on mountain sides which offers great scenery of the villages of the Nung and Zao scattering around the valley.
We will arrive at the village around late afternoon.
Dinner and overnight in a local house (Homestay).
Day 3: Nam Son – Nam Li (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will say good bye to the Nung local host and continue trekking along a single dirt trail for 3 hours uphill passing two villages of the Dao peoples. This portion offers marvelous landscapes for its beauty of nature.
Lunch will be provided on the foot of a mountain.
The trail gets narrower in the afternoon, winding its way up and down hill for 4 hours through local hill tribe villages (Dao & Nung), and then bamboo and thick rain forest as well as tea plan tation.
We will arrive in Nam Li around late afternoon. Check-in homestay for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Nam Li – Che La (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave Nam Li at 08.30.
The trek today is a real challenge! The narrow dirt trail sneaks its way mostly uphill (from 370 m to 622 m high) through an untouched region, via several small villages of the Nung and Red Zao who will be very excited at meeting the first tourists to come to their villages.Then the trek goes through thick forest for nearly 2 hours to the top of the mountain range.After lunch break, the trail gets wider as we descend to another village is also an authentic one, inhabited by the H’mong people who used to grow poppy for opium production until recently. Spend an hour to explore this village before continue trekking downhill to the center of the commune.
We will arrive in Che La about 5,30 pm.
Check-in local house for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Che La – Nam Chien (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave Che La at 08.30.
It is an easy day today! The dirt path is large and gradually goes downhill for 4 hours, passing through tea plantation, terraced rice paddies and villages of the Nung, H’mong and Zao.
Lunch will be provided en route.
Once reaching the bottom of the valley, the group will injoy an hour by the clear water of a stream before trekking uphill for 2 km to the homestay where we will spend the night.
Dinner and overnight in local village.
Day 6 – Nam Chien – Song Ngam – Ban Gia – Bac Ha (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we leave Nam Chien at 08.30.
The first hour is an easy walk along a large path to Nam Dan. Here the group will spend ½ hour to admire a wonder: The rock field including some dozen rocks of different sizes and shapes bearing messages of the ancient men.Lunch en route.Then, we will follow a narrow trail for 2 hours uphill through the thick rain forest and then 3 hours downhill until we reach a H’mong in mid afternoon.
You will be picked up by Lotussia vehicle and transferred to Bac Ha.
Check-in hotel.
Dinner in a local restaurant in Bac Ha.
Day 7: Visit a regional tribal market – Overnight train to Ha Noi (B,L).
Today is a relaxing day! The group will attend one of the regional markets of the local tribal ethnics includes the Flower H’mong, Phu La, Tay…Lunch will be provided in a local restaurant in Bac Ha.In the afternoon, transfer to Lao Cai where you will take the overnight train back to Hanoi. Train ??? Departure at ??? (To be advised). End trip.
Ha Giang Vietnam Motorbike Tour
You will be picked up by Asia Pacific Travel guide at your hotel in Hanoi, then start the trip to Thac Ba Lake which has an area of 23,400 ha and 1,331 islands and hills with diverse ecological environments. The water in the lake is blue and clear, and imprinted with the reflections of the surrounding ancient forest.
On arrival to Vu Linh ethnic village of Dao minority by the side of the lake, it is your time to do leisure walk to explore this beautiful village and people life.
Overnight in homestay.
Day 2: Vu Linh – Bac Ha ~ 180 km (B)
Beautiful ride today along Thac Ba lake, during your way, you will have chances to visit many roadside ethnic villages and markets. Continue to Bac Ha for overnight in a guesthouse.
Day 3: Bac Ha – Ha Giang ~ 200 km (B)
This morning, visit lively and colorfull market in Bac Ha, is open only on Sunday morning before we continue our trip to Ha Giang via Xin Ma and Hoang Su Phi. The road is very beautiful with many curves. Overnight in Ha Giang.
Day 4: Ha Giang – Dong Van ~ 145 km (B)
Today ride must be highlights of the trip as we will visit one of the most remote land in Vietnam where are special with many ethnic groups with their unique cultures and imposing mountains – the “Heaven Gate” in Quan Ba, Rock Plateau and the Vuong palace in Dong Van. Tonight, we stay in a hotel.
Day 5: Dong Van – Bao Lac ~ 100 km (B)
After the breakfast, let spend your time to visit Dong Van old street and if it falls on Sunday, you will have great opportunity to visit the weekly maket of Dong Van where gathers many ethnic groups and their local products. The market is like a festival for the local to enjoy the time with friends, talking, drinking…Continue to Bao Lac via Meo Vac and the highlight will be the conquering the Ma Pi Leng pass. Upon arrival, check in and stay in a guesthouse in Bao Lac.
Day 6: Bao Lac – Ba Be National Park ~ 150 km (B, D)
Today we continue to Babe lake & national park where the landscape is amazing and the homestay is another unique experience. Upon your arrival, you are free at leisure to do the boat trip (own expense) or walk to explore the village of the Tay people. Overnight in homestay of a Tay family.
Day 7: Ba Be Lake – Hanoi ~ 230 km (B)
This morning, ride back to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi around late afternoon. Tour finished, no accommodation included.
Trekking Ha Giang Vietnam Reviews
Ha Giang Province is located in the northern mountainous border area. It borders China in the north, Tuyen Quang Province in the south, Cao Bang Province in the east, and Yen Bai and Lao Cai Provinces in the west. The mountainous and hilly terrain causes difficulties for travel and transport of goods, but in return it bestows beautiful tourist sites with dozens of rivers and streams, fascinating caves and grottos, historic and cultural relics and a treasure of traditional cultures of the ethnic groups, which all enchant the visitors.
Ha Giang province Vietnam offers a wide selection of trekking tours ranging from easy half day trek to multi-day trekking tours. Most of the Ha Giang trekking tours begin and end in Hanoi.
It is possible for anyone to take an overnight train from Hanoi to Lao Cai. One night will be spent on board train. The following day, the train arrive early in Lao Cai train station. Travelers can hire a private car to travel to Bac Ha and enjoy a free day in Bac Ha or they can start their adventure from there.
For any trekking tour that goes through Ha Giang and Bac Ha area, hiring a private vehicle with English-speaking tour guide is a must-do. Because these areas – Bac Ha, Ha Giang, Cao Bang are located in the Vietnam frontier border and a authorization paper is required for visiting these areas. The application is easy and does not take long. This paper can be handled by your local tour operator.
Trekking in Ha Giang is not something luxury and comfortable. If anyone looks for a trekking tour that includes luxury lodge, mountain resorts, then Ha Giang will not be the choice. Most of the nights will be spent in local stilt house where the conditions are simple and basic. Travelers will share the house with family with private bedding setup. The toilets are located outside the house. Hot water is sometimes available.
If the Ha Giang trekking tour is booked with Lotussia Travel, sleeping bags and waterproof blue bags will be provided.
In terms of the road, the scenery is very nice. But the road is bad, especially the part between Bac Ha and Ha Giang.
Ha Giang Province is located in the northern mountainous border area. It borders China in the north, Tuyen Quang Province in the south, Cao Bang Province in the east, and Yen Bai and Lao Cai Provinces in the west. The mountainous and hilly terrain causes difficulties for travel and transport of goods, but in return it bestows beautiful tourist sites with dozens of rivers and streams, fascinating caves and grottos, historic and cultural relics and a treasure of traditional cultures of the ethnic groups, which all enchant the visitors.
Ha Giang province Vietnam offers a wide selection of trekking tours ranging from easy half day trek to multi-day trekking tours. Most of the Ha Giang trekking tours begin and end in Hanoi.
It is possible for anyone to take an overnight train from Hanoi to Lao Cai. One night will be spent on board train. The following day, the train arrive early in Lao Cai train station. Travelers can hire a private car to travel to Bac Ha and enjoy a free day in Bac Ha or they can start their adventure from there.
For any trekking tour that goes through Ha Giang and Bac Ha area, hiring a private vehicle with English-speaking tour guide is a must-do. Because these areas – Bac Ha, Ha Giang, Cao Bang are located in the Vietnam frontier border and a authorization paper is required for visiting these areas. The application is easy and does not take long. This paper can be handled by your local tour operator.
Trekking in Ha Giang is not something luxury and comfortable. If anyone looks for a trekking tour that includes luxury lodge, mountain resorts, then Ha Giang will not be the choice. Most of the nights will be spent in local stilt house where the conditions are simple and basic. Travelers will share the house with family with private bedding setup. The toilets are located outside the house. Hot water is sometimes available.
If the Ha Giang trekking tour is booked with Lotussia Travel, sleeping bags and waterproof blue bags will be provided.
In terms of the road, the scenery is very nice. But the road is bad, especially the part between Bac Ha and Ha Giang.
Introducing Ha Giang, Viet Nam
Ha Giang is one of the less traveled place in Northern Vietnam. This area is still untouched to many Vietnamese travelers and foreign tourists. Here is an articles extracted from the New York Times. The article is written by JENNIFER BLEYER and is published on the New York Times on October 27, 2010.MY first glimpse of the place that some call Shangri-La came on a brisk spring afternoon as we were careening along a narrow road hemmed in by sheer limestone walls. Our driver made a hairpin turn and all at once the landscape erupted into a sweep of dazzling slopes, serrated ridges and hanging valleys. In the pocket of a mountain pass called Heaven’s Gate, Hoang Tuan Anh, who also served as our guide, stopped his pickup truck so we could gaze at the vista of radiant sky that had opened up before us. This was only the beginning, Mr. Anh said, as we resumed our upward drive. “We will go as high as the clouds!”
My husband, my daughter and I had been in Vietnam nearly a month before we visited Ha Giang province in the northern reaches of the country. It was a place I had never heard of, but Vietnamese acquaintances talked about the region as if it were the Land of Oz, their eyes widening as they incanted its name (pronounced Ha ZAHNG). Worldly young Hanoians said that one could not truly consider oneself Vietnamese until having been there. Expatriate friends implored us not to squander any opportunity to experience this holy grail, far from the country’s deeply trodden tourist track.
Such reverence, we soon learned, was warranted, and it wasn’t just because of the region’s spectacular landscape. In an ever-shrinking world, Ha Giang, with its uniquely preserved tribal culture (nearly 90 percent of the population is ethnic minorities), is one of those rare places that hasn’t been corralled by modernity or prepackaged for visitors. At least, not yet. During the past two decades, as Vietnam’s lowlands and urban centers have teetered on tracks of globalization and economic development, much of this distant 5,000-square-mile province has remained detached and frozen in the past.
That isolation has been reinforced by strained politics, but in recent years, border tensions stemming from a 1979 Chinese invasion have thawed, the government has poured money into improving the province’s roads and other infrastructure, and new, albeit modest, hotels have arrived. Middle-class Vietnamese already appear in throngs, and foreign visitors have begun trickling in as well — last year some 3,500 foreign tourists visited the region. That figure seems poised to grow since the Dong Van plateau, at the province’s northernmost edge, was named the country’s first Unesco-designated Global Geopark earlier this month, a status that the organization bestows on places of significant geological and cultural heritage. The 900-square-mile plateau is studded with ethereal karst formations, evidence of tectonic events that started molding the area over 400 million years ago.
It was that plateau that beckoned to us, as it does to most travelers who venture to the region.
The overnight train from Hanoi deposited us at dawn in Lao Cai, a blustery northern city about 70 miles west of Ha Giang. There we boarded a crammed local bus that chugged for eight hours through misty hills. We spent part of the afternoon lodged in a mudslide, only to be rescued by a hydraulic backhoe doubling as a tow truck. Our 11-month-old daughter craned her head and stared quizzically through it all, as if we were toting her through some particularly mountainous corner of the Upper West Side.
In Ha Giang’s sleepy provincial capital, the city of Ha Giang, we were met by Mr. Anh, our guide of Tay ethnicity with whom we had arranged a three-day tour — first to Dong Van, a town that was less than two miles from the Chinese border, and then along a mountain road to the town of Meo Vac. Mr. Anh escorted us to the concrete headquarters of the immigration police to procure $10 permits from an unsmiling official. Although the requirement was abolished in most of the country in 1993, foreigners are still expected to obtain permits to tour Ha Giang, a Communist rite of the rubber-stamping variety so seldom experienced by travelers in modern Vietnam as to seem almost quaint.
Later, as we barreled past the limits of Ha Giang city into the area’s remarkable landscape, Mr. Anh, a garrulous man in his late 30s who had studied in England and lived in Hanoi before returning to his native Ha Giang, recounted how his parents would spend days during their youth walking the winding route to Dong Van before there were paved roads. Our trip, he said, would take a mere six hours.
THE story of Ha Giang is in many ways the story of the proud and independent Hmong who, following the Tay and other ethnic groups, began migrating there in the late 18th century, fleeing unrest in southern China. In Ha Giang, they found the high altitudes they were accustomed to, and alkaline soil in which their opium poppy crops would flourish.
Buffeted by the political winds that blew through Vietnam in the past century, the Hmong and other minorities occasionally rebelled but mostly cooperated with the French colonists and, subsequently, with the ruling Viet Minh, who promised them a degree of autonomy in exchange for their support. (They ultimately reneged on that promise.) The overriding desire to remain free and secure was challenged during the 1979 Chinese invasion; border flare-ups persisted for years, but by 1991, relations were normalized between the two countries, and negotiations led to a final decision last year about where the 800-mile border would be. Although one of the poorest provinces in Vietnam, with little industry besides mining and agriculture, Ha Giang was once again safe for the Hmong and others, and visitors began to show up…
My husband, my daughter and I had been in Vietnam nearly a month before we visited Ha Giang province in the northern reaches of the country. It was a place I had never heard of, but Vietnamese acquaintances talked about the region as if it were the Land of Oz, their eyes widening as they incanted its name (pronounced Ha ZAHNG). Worldly young Hanoians said that one could not truly consider oneself Vietnamese until having been there. Expatriate friends implored us not to squander any opportunity to experience this holy grail, far from the country’s deeply trodden tourist track.
Such reverence, we soon learned, was warranted, and it wasn’t just because of the region’s spectacular landscape. In an ever-shrinking world, Ha Giang, with its uniquely preserved tribal culture (nearly 90 percent of the population is ethnic minorities), is one of those rare places that hasn’t been corralled by modernity or prepackaged for visitors. At least, not yet. During the past two decades, as Vietnam’s lowlands and urban centers have teetered on tracks of globalization and economic development, much of this distant 5,000-square-mile province has remained detached and frozen in the past.
That isolation has been reinforced by strained politics, but in recent years, border tensions stemming from a 1979 Chinese invasion have thawed, the government has poured money into improving the province’s roads and other infrastructure, and new, albeit modest, hotels have arrived. Middle-class Vietnamese already appear in throngs, and foreign visitors have begun trickling in as well — last year some 3,500 foreign tourists visited the region. That figure seems poised to grow since the Dong Van plateau, at the province’s northernmost edge, was named the country’s first Unesco-designated Global Geopark earlier this month, a status that the organization bestows on places of significant geological and cultural heritage. The 900-square-mile plateau is studded with ethereal karst formations, evidence of tectonic events that started molding the area over 400 million years ago.
It was that plateau that beckoned to us, as it does to most travelers who venture to the region.
The overnight train from Hanoi deposited us at dawn in Lao Cai, a blustery northern city about 70 miles west of Ha Giang. There we boarded a crammed local bus that chugged for eight hours through misty hills. We spent part of the afternoon lodged in a mudslide, only to be rescued by a hydraulic backhoe doubling as a tow truck. Our 11-month-old daughter craned her head and stared quizzically through it all, as if we were toting her through some particularly mountainous corner of the Upper West Side.
In Ha Giang’s sleepy provincial capital, the city of Ha Giang, we were met by Mr. Anh, our guide of Tay ethnicity with whom we had arranged a three-day tour — first to Dong Van, a town that was less than two miles from the Chinese border, and then along a mountain road to the town of Meo Vac. Mr. Anh escorted us to the concrete headquarters of the immigration police to procure $10 permits from an unsmiling official. Although the requirement was abolished in most of the country in 1993, foreigners are still expected to obtain permits to tour Ha Giang, a Communist rite of the rubber-stamping variety so seldom experienced by travelers in modern Vietnam as to seem almost quaint.
Later, as we barreled past the limits of Ha Giang city into the area’s remarkable landscape, Mr. Anh, a garrulous man in his late 30s who had studied in England and lived in Hanoi before returning to his native Ha Giang, recounted how his parents would spend days during their youth walking the winding route to Dong Van before there were paved roads. Our trip, he said, would take a mere six hours.
THE story of Ha Giang is in many ways the story of the proud and independent Hmong who, following the Tay and other ethnic groups, began migrating there in the late 18th century, fleeing unrest in southern China. In Ha Giang, they found the high altitudes they were accustomed to, and alkaline soil in which their opium poppy crops would flourish.
Buffeted by the political winds that blew through Vietnam in the past century, the Hmong and other minorities occasionally rebelled but mostly cooperated with the French colonists and, subsequently, with the ruling Viet Minh, who promised them a degree of autonomy in exchange for their support. (They ultimately reneged on that promise.) The overriding desire to remain free and secure was challenged during the 1979 Chinese invasion; border flare-ups persisted for years, but by 1991, relations were normalized between the two countries, and negotiations led to a final decision last year about where the 800-mile border would be. Although one of the poorest provinces in Vietnam, with little industry besides mining and agriculture, Ha Giang was once again safe for the Hmong and others, and visitors began to show up…
Visit Remote Hilltribe Villages in North-Vietnam Travel Hanoi Ha Giang Yen Minh Dong Van Meo Vac
Day 1: Drive Hanoi – Ha Giang (D)
8:00: You will be met up with Asia Pacific Travel team at your hotel in Hanoi and transferred to Ha Giang via Tuyen Quang province. We arrive in Ha Giang around early afternoon. We will check into a local village house and have lunch. After lunch, we will have a short walk around this village. Meeting and talking with local villagers will help you understand more the culture of the Tay ethnic group. Dinner will be provided at the village. Overnight in a stilt house.
Day 2: Ha Giang – Yen Minh (B)
After breakfast in the stilt house, we will have a short visit of the Ha Giang museum before we continue our drive towards Dong Van stone plateau. We stop en route for a short walk through the hill of pine and visit a Red Dao of village. Lunch en route. We arrive Yen Minh town around late afternoon. Check into a local guesthouse for overnight.
Day 3: Yen Minh – Dong Van – Meo Vac (B)
8:00 we continue our road trip to Dong Van karst plateau. A stop will be made en route for visiting a Hmong village in Lung Cam, and the residence of the Vuong family, still called “Palace of Hmong King”.
After lunch and short rest, we continue our drive towards Meo Vac town. We make some stops en route for admiring the scenery and taking some photos of Ma Pi Leng pass. Arriving in Meo Vac, we check into a local hotel and take a rest. Then if time permit, we will have the opportunity to visit a village of Hmong near the town.Dinner and overnight in Meo Vac.
Day 4: Meo Vac – Ha Giang (B, D)
After breakfast, we start our road trip back to Ha Giang town. Upon our arrival in Quan Ba, Yen Minh, we will make a stop in Lung Tam village, a Hmong village where you will learn how local villagers weave brocades. After lunch at Quan Ba, we continue our trip back to Ha Giang. Check into a stilt house for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Ha Giang – Hanoi (B).
After breakfast, enjoy a full day drive back to Hanoi. Lunch will be provided en route. Arrive back in Hanoi around mid-afternoon. End of Asia PacificTravel service
Tour Cost includes:
Transportation in mountain by 4 X 4, Ford Transit group over 4 pax
Meal as mentioned: B = breakfast, L = Lunch, D = diner.
Accommodation : twin sharing room at the below mentioned hotel or homstay
English or French speaking guide and local guide in Ha Giang
Entrance fees and permission to indicated sights
Tour Cost not includes:
Flights
Travel insurance
Visas and visa fees
Tips and gratuities
Personal expenses
8:00: You will be met up with Asia Pacific Travel team at your hotel in Hanoi and transferred to Ha Giang via Tuyen Quang province. We arrive in Ha Giang around early afternoon. We will check into a local village house and have lunch. After lunch, we will have a short walk around this village. Meeting and talking with local villagers will help you understand more the culture of the Tay ethnic group. Dinner will be provided at the village. Overnight in a stilt house.
Day 2: Ha Giang – Yen Minh (B)
After breakfast in the stilt house, we will have a short visit of the Ha Giang museum before we continue our drive towards Dong Van stone plateau. We stop en route for a short walk through the hill of pine and visit a Red Dao of village. Lunch en route. We arrive Yen Minh town around late afternoon. Check into a local guesthouse for overnight.
Day 3: Yen Minh – Dong Van – Meo Vac (B)
8:00 we continue our road trip to Dong Van karst plateau. A stop will be made en route for visiting a Hmong village in Lung Cam, and the residence of the Vuong family, still called “Palace of Hmong King”.
After lunch and short rest, we continue our drive towards Meo Vac town. We make some stops en route for admiring the scenery and taking some photos of Ma Pi Leng pass. Arriving in Meo Vac, we check into a local hotel and take a rest. Then if time permit, we will have the opportunity to visit a village of Hmong near the town.Dinner and overnight in Meo Vac.
Day 4: Meo Vac – Ha Giang (B, D)
After breakfast, we start our road trip back to Ha Giang town. Upon our arrival in Quan Ba, Yen Minh, we will make a stop in Lung Tam village, a Hmong village where you will learn how local villagers weave brocades. After lunch at Quan Ba, we continue our trip back to Ha Giang. Check into a stilt house for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Ha Giang – Hanoi (B).
After breakfast, enjoy a full day drive back to Hanoi. Lunch will be provided en route. Arrive back in Hanoi around mid-afternoon. End of Asia PacificTravel service
Tour Cost includes:
Transportation in mountain by 4 X 4, Ford Transit group over 4 pax
Meal as mentioned: B = breakfast, L = Lunch, D = diner.
Accommodation : twin sharing room at the below mentioned hotel or homstay
English or French speaking guide and local guide in Ha Giang
Entrance fees and permission to indicated sights
Tour Cost not includes:
Flights
Travel insurance
Visas and visa fees
Tips and gratuities
Personal expenses
