Ha Giang Loop Adventure Tour

After breakfast, leave Dong Van for driving towards the Ma Pi Leng pass, one of the greatest passes in the mountain north of Vietnam and is also known as ‘Heaven’s Gate Pass’ as it gives the feeling of touching the sky. The pass was dug on mountain cliffs by hands of thousands of local workers from 1959 to 1965 during the building of Happiness Road that connects Ha Giang city and mountainous districts. The drive skirts the Chinese border through a deep valley and as you wind along the narrow roads you’ll be surrounded by spectacular valleys and towering perpendicular walls of rock.
Visit Meo Vac town and its market where local come from surrounding villages to buy and sell fresh produce as well as dry goods. The market is particularly busy on Sunday and is considered one of the most colorful hill tribe markets in this remote region of Vietnam. Apart from shops with plenty of beautiful local handicrafts, there’s also a livestock market where the locals trade horses, cattle, pigs, dogs and so on. Then drive downhill along the road 176 through stunning landscapes, passing mountains villages and passes to Mau Due and Du Gia to Yen Minh and back To Ha Giang.

Check in accommodation in Ha Giang in the late afternoon. Remainder of the day is at your leisure and perhaps pamper yourself with a herbal bath and traditional massage (optional - available at eco-lodge).

Summary of inclusions

Leave Ha Giang early and enjoy your drive along the zigzag mountain road to Hoang Su Phi, the place known for its terraced field designated as National Heritage.
Leave your luggage at the eco lodge and enjoy the adventure trek passing villages of Yao with long tunics who have settled their house on pillar on the mountainside, through the rice fields in terraces, the bamboo forests.
Lunch is taken at a local home.
In the afternoon, continue your trek through some most fascinating landscapes of mountains and terrace fields, villages.
Check in home stay in a local house of Red Dzao people. Spend time to wander around the village for local interaction and sightseeing.
Dinner and overnight home stay local house.

Summary of inclusions

Local breakfast then say goodbye to your host and enjoy the morning trek for sightseeing of more Hoang Su Phi landscapes.
Lunch is at a local home of hill tribe village.
After lunch, take another 2 hours trek little up and downhill back to the eco lodge where you left your luggage.
Check in and remainder of the day is to relax and perhaps pamper yourself with a sauna and foot, body massage (optional).

Overnight night at the eco lodge.

Summary of inclusions

Enjoy the morning at your leisure until check out time (around 10) then drive downhill back Hanoi. (6 hour drive including stops).
Along the way you will make some stops to visit local villages, farms and tea plantations.
Arrive back in Hanoi around 16.00PM. Trip ends!

Summary of inclusions