Ha Giang Loop from Australia: The 10 Day Plan
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Vietnam is one of the few genuinely long haul destinations that Australians can do properly in ten days, and northern Vietnam is the part worth flying for. The Ha Giang Loop is a circuit through a limestone plateau in the far north, on roads cut into cliff faces above […]
Ha Giang Loop from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Northern Vietnam is closer to you than Bali. It is closer than Tokyo, closer than Perth, and closer than most of the places people from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur book for a long weekend. Fly to Hanoi in roughly three and a half […]
Ha Giang Photography Tour: Light, Drones and Logistics
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Ha Giang is one of the great landscapes in Southeast Asia and one of the more frustrating ones to photograph properly, because almost everybody sees it from the saddle of a motorbike on somebody else’s schedule. You arrive at Ma Pi Leng at […]
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, […]