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 […]
Cao Bang to Ban Gioc: Day 1 of the Cao Bang Loop
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The ride from Cao Bang City to Ban Gioc looks tiny on a map. Under 100 km, one main road, a waterfall at the end of it. Then you actually do it, and you arrive at your homestay after dark wondering where the […]
Cao Bang Food Guide: What to Eat in the Northeast
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents The first time I watched someone drop a rolled rice pancake into a bowl of hot bone broth, I assumed they had made a mistake. In Hanoi, banh cuon comes with a small dish of fish sauce on the side. In Cao Bang it arrives swimming in soup, with […]
Cao Bang Road Conditions 2026: A Segment by Segment Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The first question almost every traveller asks us about Cao Bang is some version of “are the roads bad?” It is the wrong question, and it took us a few seasons of running this route to work out why. Cao Bang does not […]
Khau Coc Cha Pass: Riding the 15 Tier Road in Cao Bang
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The first time you see Khau Coc Cha Pass properly is not from a saddle. It is from a hillside above it, after a walk that leaves you slightly out of breath, when the road below suddenly stops looking like a road and […]
Northern Vietnam Itinerary: 10 Days Ha Giang & Cao Bang
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Ten days is enough to see northern Vietnam properly. It is not quite enough to see it lazily, which is why the order of the days matters more than most people expect. This northern Vietnam itinerary covers three places that feel like three […]
Getting Sick on the Loop: Clinics, Pharmacies & Evacuation
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Nobody plans to get sick on vacation. But knowing what to do if it happens matters more in remote areas like the Ha Giang Loop than in cities with international hospitals on every corner. The honest reality: medical facilities on the Loop are […]
Ha Giang Cao Bang Self-Drive: An Honest Difficulty Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The Ha Giang to Cao Bang combination is one of Vietnam’s most spectacular routes. Five to six days across the northern mountains, from the Loop’s famous passes to Ban Gioc Waterfall on the China border. Some travelers self-drive it successfully. Others wish they […]