Ha Giang Loop Charging Guide: Power Banks, Outlets & Real Tips
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Nobody warns you about this part. You spend weeks researching the Ha Giang Loop, the passes, the homestays, whether the roads are scary. Then on day two you are standing at the top of Ma Pi Leng with the best view of your […]
Ha Giang Loop Planning Checklist: 30 Days Before You Go
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Most people fall in love with the idea of the Ha Giang Loop on Instagram, then realise about a week before they fly that they have no idea how to actually do it. The good news is that the Loop is far less […]
Ha Giang Loop with Toddlers & Very Young Children: Family Jeep Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Most people picture the Ha Giang Loop as a motorbike trip for backpackers in their twenties, so if you are a parent of a one, two or three year old wondering whether you can bring them, the honest answer might surprise you: yes, […]
Ha Giang Loop Tet Holiday Guide: Visiting During Vietnamese New Year
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Riding the Ha Giang Loop during Tet is one of those plans that sounds magical and slightly chaotic at the same time, and honestly, it can be both. Tet is Vietnamese New Year, the biggest holiday of the year, and for about a […]
Where to Stay in Dong Van: A Real Guide to the Geopark’s Best Bases
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Dong Van sits at the far northern tip of Vietnam, deep inside a limestone plateau that looks more like the surface of the moon than anywhere else in the country. If you are riding or driving the Ha Giang Loop, this is roughly […]
Ha Giang Indigo Dyeing: H’Mong Textile Workshop Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The first thing you notice is the hands. You will be standing in a courtyard somewhere off the road in Quan Ba, watching a woman fold a heavy length of cloth, and her fingers are blue. Not dirty blue. Deep, settled, dye in […]
Ha Giang Wildlife & Bird Watching: An Honest Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Let me save you a small disappointment before it happens. People sometimes arrive in Ha Giang picturing a jungle full of monkeys and exotic birds, the way you might imagine a national park in Borneo or Costa Rica. That is not really what […]
Pac Bo Historical Site: Ho Chi Minh’s Cave in Cao Bang
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Most travelers come to Cao Bang for the waterfall. Then someone mentions a cave near the Chinese border where a man hid in 1941 and quietly started a revolution, and the trip changes shape. That cave is Pac Bo, and it sits inside […]
Ha Giang Loop From Da Nang: Routes, Time, Tips
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The Ha Giang Loop sits in the far north of Vietnam, tucked against the Chinese border. Da Nang sits halfway down the coast. Between the two is most of the country, which is exactly why so many travelers based in central Vietnam assume […]
Ha Giang Loop First Aid Kit: What to Pack & Why
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Nobody books the Ha Giang Loop thinking about scraped knees and upset stomachs. You book it for the passes, the rice terraces, the night the homestay owner pours you a glass of corn wine and someone pulls out a speaker. But out here, […]