Northern Vietnam with Kids: The Cao Bang Jeep Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Most families write off the mountains in northern Vietnam. The photos are all of people in their twenties on motorbikes, the tours are sold as adventure, and every guide assumes you are riding. So families do Hanoi, Ha Long and a beach, and never find out that the best […]
Thang Hen Lake and Ma Phuc Pass: A Cao Bang Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Almost everyone who rides to Ban Gioc crosses Ma Phuc Pass, and most of them do not stop. Almost nobody turns off it towards Thang Hen at all. That is a shame on both counts, because the pass is one of the more […]
Phia Oac National Park: Cao Bang’s Cloud Forest
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Nobody comes to Vietnam expecting to be cold. Then you ride up out of Nguyen Binh, the temperature drops with every switchback, the trees start wearing moss like fur coats, and by the time you are near the top of Phia Oac you […]
Cao Bang Loop Cost: A Real Price Breakdown
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Most cost articles about Vietnam are guesses. Somebody rode a loop three years ago, remembered roughly what they spent, converted it badly, and now that number is on forty websites. This one works differently. Where we can give you a real figure, we […]
Vietnam for Adrenaline Seekers: Canyoning, Climbing, Skywalks and Passes
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Vietnam is a very good country to scare yourself in. Limestone everywhere, which means climbing and caves. Mountains folded into the north and the centre, which means passes and long walks. Waterfalls you can abseil down, sea cliffs you can climb above deep […]
Northern Vietnam Loops Compared: Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Ba Be, Mai Chau and Y Ty
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Everybody arrives in Hanoi with the same question. There are five or six mountain routes north of the city, they all look spectacular in photos, and nobody can tell you which one to do because the honest answer depends on things nobody asks […]
Vietnam Off the Beaten Path: 12 Regions Most Travellers Skip
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Most people see the same Vietnam. Hanoi, Ha Long, Hoi An, maybe Sapa, then a flight south to Ho Chi Minh City and a day trip into the Mekong. It is a good route. It is also the route that roughly everyone takes, […]
Cao Bang Motorbike Rental: What to Know Before You Ride
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Cao Bang is one of the best provinces in Vietnam to ride: a waterfall on an international border, a river the colour of jade, craft villages that are still working, and a mountain with a hole punched through the ridge. What it does […]
Cao Bang Loop Day 3: Phia Thap, Phuc Sen and God’s Eye Mountain
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Day 3 is the one that surprises people. On paper it reads like a travel day: leave the valley, ride back towards Cao Bang City, catch a bus. In practice you spend the morning in villages where families are still forging blades and […]
Cao Bang Loop Day 2: Nguom Ngao, Quay Son & Phong Nam
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Day 1 in Cao Bang is the highlight reel. Passes, craft villages, a border waterfall that photographs itself. Day 2 is quieter, shorter on paper, and it is the one guests talk about six months later. The distance is almost nothing. You wake […]