Vietnam Trekking Guide: 5 Best Hikes for Every Fitness Level
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours If you’re dreaming of high-altitude peaks, hidden waterfalls, and trails carved through limestone mountains, Vietnam needs to be on your hiking bucket list. But here’s the thing: Vietnam isn’t just one type of hike. Whether you’re a casual walker looking for a day-long […]
Best Road Trips in Vietnam by Car and Jeep
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Vietnam looks manageable on a map. Then you drive it. The country runs about 1,650 km from the Chinese border to the southern tip, and almost nothing interesting happens on the straight line between two cities. It happens on the ridge road nobody […]
Ha Giang Cao Bang for Couples: The Slow Version
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Most people ride Ha Giang the way you eat a meal you are late for. Three days, a fixed convoy, a viewpoint every forty minutes, a photo, back on the bike. It works. Plenty of travellers love it. But if you are travelling […]
Ha Giang Cao Bang 6 Days 5 Nights: The Full Itinerary
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Most travellers finish the Ha Giang Loop, hand the bike back, and climb onto a night bus feeling like they left something unfinished. They usually did. East of Meo Vac the mountains keep going, the traffic thins to almost nothing, and the grey […]
Vietnam UNESCO Global Geoparks Explained
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The first time somebody told me the Ha Giang Loop runs through a UNESCO Global Geopark, I nodded like I knew what that meant. I did not. I assumed it was a nicer way of saying national park, and I carried on taking […]
Cao Bang Loop 3 Days: The Full Day by Day Itinerary
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The first time I rode into Cao Bang I kept waiting for the traffic to start. It never did. Where the Ha Giang Loop has convoys of riders stacked three deep at every viewpoint, Cao Bang has an old man on a Honda […]
Is Vietnam Safe for Adventure Travel? An Honest Risk Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Every week someone sends us a message that begins the same way: “This looks amazing, but is it actually safe?” Usually it arrives at 2am their time, after a long evening of watching drone footage of Ma Pi Leng Pass and reading one […]
Solo Adventure Travel in Vietnam: Where to Start
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours The first thing nobody tells you about solo adventure travel in Vietnam is how quickly the fear evaporates. You spend weeks before the flight running worst case scenarios in your head, and then you are sitting on a plastic stool in Hanoi at […]
Vegetarian and Vegan on the Ha Giang Loop
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Can you ride the Ha Giang Loop as a vegetarian or vegan? Yes. Will it happen on its own if you just turn up and point at menus in remote villages? Not really. Here is the honest version, because that is what actually […]
Ha Giang to Cao Bang: The Ultimate 5 Days Guide
Facebook X Reddit Table of Contents Learn more: Ha Giang Loop Tours Most people finish the Ha Giang Loop, ride back to Ha Giang City, and jump on a night bus to Hanoi. It is a great trip. It is also only half the story. Push east instead of turning back, and the road drops […]