Pu Peo ethnic minority people Ha Giang Vietnam

Pu Peo ethnic minority people live only in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang. According to the 1999 survey, there were only 705 people living in the districts of Dong Van, Meo Vac and Bac Me. The Pu Peo ethnic group ranks 53rd in the Vietnamese community in term of population.

The Pu Peo in Vietnam were first mentioned as the La Qua by scholar Le Quy Don in his book Kien Van Tieu Luc written in the middle of the 18th century. In early 19th century documents, the Pu Peo were mentioned as the Penti, Pentilolo, Kaobeo and also Pu Peo. In Ha Giang province, the Pu Peo, with a small population, live scattered on high mountainous areas along the Vietnam-China border. Different from the H’Mong people who live high on the mountains, the Pu Peo establish their villages on the flat grounds in mountainous areas. They reside in Pho La, Sung Trang and Phu Lung which has a sub-tropical climate. In this natural condition, the Pu Peo can grow wet rice and make use of forests to earn their living. They believe that the success or failure of each family and each individual depends largely on the position of their land and house. That is why their house building process follows very strict religious procedures, from selection of the land, trees for pillars and the building itself to the relocating ceremony.

The Pu Peo worship three generations including Pe, or parents, Te Ngan, or grand-parents and Te Gao, or great grand-parents. For each generation, they put a loog ten or jar on the altar. Offerings to ancestors on the first day in the new house will be put in the jars. Very often, in each jar, they put a chicken, five small balls of cooked rice and some meat. All procedures must be fulfilled before dawn. After that, relatives and neighbours will come, each bringing a chicken, a bottle of wine or some money to wish the host good luck.
The Pu Peo use the calendar of China’s Zhou dynasty. According to this calendar, a khuop mai or cycle comprises 12 years and a year comprises 12 months. Twenty-nine or 30 days will make a month and 12 “hours” will make a day. Similar to the current lunar calendar, there is a leap year every three years. So, the Pu Peo also celebrates the lunar New Year festival (Tet) as other ethnic groups do.

Hoang Su Phi in Ha Giang trekking tour 7 days

Day 1 (Tuesday): Hanoi – Ha Giang (L, D)

Our guide will pick-up you at your hotel in Hanoi. On the way to Ha Giang we will visit Ethnology Museum in Tuyên Quang province. Arrive Hoang Su Phi, the land of terrace field. Check in our Eco-lodge.

Day 2: Trekking day (B, L, D)

Meet our local guide and trekking to Nam Ho village (5-6 hours), on the way you will have chance to contemplate rice terrace field, mountain, bamboo forest, local hiltribe with their daily life, daily works. Hill tribe here are mainly Man Ta Pan and long-dress Dzao. Have lunch en route.
Overnight at homestay with long-dress Dzao hill tribes.

Day 3: Trekking day (B, L, D)

Walking to Red Dzao village (5-6 hours).
Overnight at homestay with Dzao house-on-stilt.

Day 4: Trekking day (B, L, D)

Walking to Nung hill tribe village (5-6 hours)
Overnight at homestay with Nung house-on-stilt.

Day 5: Trekking day (B, L, D)

Walking to Nung hill tribe village of Tu Nha (5-6 hours)
Overnight at homestay with Nung clay-house.

Day 6 (Sunday): Market day (B, L, D)

Walking in the early morning (1 hours walking) to local market. See the colorful hill tribes in the reagion: Man Ta Pan, Flower H’Mong, Tay, Nung, long-dress Dzao, La Chi, co Lao, … See people selling, buying, bartering their products (2 hours wandering around the market for photo shooting).
Transfer back to Eco-lodge, relax, enjoy herbal tube bath (optional service)

Day 7: Ha Giang – Hanoi (B, L)

Check-out the lodge and get on our car back to Hanoi.

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Villages of Tay in Ha Giang trekking tour

Day 1: From Dong Van Town, you will walk to Thien Huong, Ma Lu village. On the way, you will see the beautiful landscape, the local people working on the farm, the castle eating grass leisurely….Overnight in homestay in Lung Tao.

Day 2: You continue pass through other villages of Giay, Clao people. The landscape is certainly beautiful. In the afternoon, you will reach to Dong Van town.

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Quang Binh, Xin Man (Ha Giang) trekking 5 days

Day 1: Hanoi – Binh Yen (Quang Binh) (L, D)

Vietnam Typical Tour's guide will come to pick up you at your hotel then get started to Quang Binh – Ha Giang. Lunch at local restaurant on the way. Take a short walk to homestay.
Dinner and overnight in a homestay in Binh Yen, Quang Binh.

Day 2: Quang Binh – Tan Nam (B, L, D)

Breakfast, say goodbye to the host and depart at 08.30 am. Take an easy trek through valley and terraced rice paddies for over 2 hours to a village of Pa Then ethnic peoples. Explore the village and then lunch break.
After noon trek takes nearly 4 hours up and down hill through plantation, rice paddies, especially the palm forest of hilly land of the Tan Nam Commune. Passing some hamlets of the Black Dzao and larger villages of the hospitable Nung ethnic peoples.
Arrive to the center of Tan Nam at about 5.00 PM, walk around this beautiful village. Dinner & home stay in a house of the Nung.

Day 3: Trekking Tan Nam – Phieng Lang village (Khuon Lung, Xin Man)  (B, L, D)

Depart at 08.30am after breakfast at home-stay. The trek today is easy on large village path which connect village to villages of the Long Dressed Dzao, Tay and Nung ethnic peoples, all beautifully set along the Nam Ly River. Paying visiting to many local homes along the way and every where peoples treat visitors with their hospitality.
The trek in the afternoon gets up hill slightly and gradually to Phieng Lang. This region is inhabited mostly by the Red Dzao, Long Dressed Dzao and Flower Hmong hill tribes who traditionally and practically build their homes on hill tops and cultivate the surrounding land to create perfect dwelling. Arrive to Phieng Lang in mid afternoon. Take a leisure walk to explore the surrounding nature. Dinner and home stay in a stilt house of the Dzao hill tribe.

Day 4: Phieng Lang – Nam Choong (Quang Nguyen, Xin Man) (B, L, D)

Breakfast and leave Phieng Lang at about 08.30 am. Enjoy another day along the beautiful Nam Ly Valley. Take a good trail which winds up and down on high hill sides gradually uphill for the whole morning via Pa Duc village to Quang Thuong. Very different from the Nung and Tay, who live in large villages at low land, the Hmong and the Dzao Ao Dai occupy the higher land and built their houses scattering on hill-tops. This portion offers one of the most beautiful in the far north.
Lunch break and then descending along a narrow trail passing through tea farms and steep terraced paddies for 2 hours to Nam Chong Village of the Long Dressed Dzao people. Explore the village and settle down in a local home for dinner and overnight.

Day 5: Nam Choong – Quang Nguyen – Hanoi (B, L)

Departure at 08.30 am. Trek along a narrow trail along the Nam Ly River for an hour to the center of Quang Nguyen Commune. Pick up by car and drive back Hanoi. Lunch at a local restaurant on route.
Drop off at hotel at around 7:00PM. Tour ends.

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HA GIANG – DONG VAN – MEO VAC –BA BE LAKE 5 days 4 nights

Day 1: Ha Noi - Ha Giang (L, D)
 
08.00am : you will be collected from your hotel for departure to Road No 2 Hanoi-Viet Tri-Tuyen Quang-Ha Giang. On the way, we will stop for an excellent lunch among gardens in Tan Quang and continue on to Ha Giang arriving around 18:00.
We will go to a nearby Thai village, where we will have dinner and spend the night in the stilted house of a local family

Day 2: Ha Giang - Dong Van (B, L, D)
 
After purchasing the mandatory permit at the Immigration Office, we take the first spectacular road, which leads to Dong Van, a series of long passes and deep valleys. Lunch will be in the small mountain town of Tam Son.
We then cross a landscape of pine forests and arrive at the astonishing King of the H’mong’s Palace, a fortress built by a local chief allied with the French against the Vietminh, Vuong Chin Duc.  It was evacuated in 1950 (his descendants now live in France and Canada) but it almost feels as if they left yesterday.
We will arrive in Dong Van around 18:00 have dinner in a local restaurant and spend the night in a local hotel.

Day 3: Dong Van - Ma Pi Leng Pass - Meo Vac - Bao Lac- Ba Be Lake (B, L, D)

An absolutely unforgettable day! It starts with a visit to the market of Dong Van, where the locals shop before returning to their mountain hamlets. We then climb a pass up to the French Fortress of Pu Lo, built in 1890 and evacuated in 1945, from which we enjoy a spectacular view of the entire region.
The road climbs on 15 km up to the top of the Ma Pi Leng Pass, through a gigantic maze of limestone peaks, "stone forests", and canyons, a unique landscape of the world. Descending into the valley of Meo Vac, we continue snaking through the mountains, cross the river, and arrive in the village of Bao Lac, where we have lunch.  We take the mountain road Bao Lac - Cao Bang. Before Cao Bang, another one of our little secrets : a gorgeous small road snaking through the mountains to the Tay village of Cho Ra and then down to the Tay village of Bo Lu, where you are welcomed by Mr. Tuan Linh  and his amazingly friendly Tay family in their traditional stilted house. If it’s hot, do like the local kids, just jump in the lake!   You will enjoy a superb dinner (Mrs Tuan Linh is specialist in local dishes) on the river terrace. If you want to try something crazy, ask Linh about the one meter pure tobacco cigarette.

Day 4: Ba Be Lake - Puong Cave (B, L, D)
 
A treat! Breakfast on the lakeside, then a short walk to the house owner’s boat, which takes you through the entire length of the 3 connected lakes (Ba Be - “3 bays”) and up the Nang River, to an astonishing site: Dong Phuong, an enormous tunnel 300 mtrs long that the river has cut through a limestone mountain.
The boat then goes down river to the small village of Hua Tang, as simple and authentic as you have been dreaming of! Lunch will be in a local house alongside the river.  
After lunch, a short walk through the jungle takes you to the very scenic Thac Dau Dang Waterfalls, a series of spectacular cascades between sheer rock walls. Return by boat for another delightful evening at your Tay house.

Day 5: Ba Be Lake - Ha Noi (B, L)
 
Relax in Bo Lu and depart on a secret road of ours, following the river and then snaking from pass to pass through the hills of Central North Vietnam.  You may find the locals are fascinated by you for few tourists ever go that particular and spectacular way. We then join the main road to Ha Noi, with a short stop in Cho Chu to visit the ruins of the French Prison. Return to  your hotel around 17:00.

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North West Vietnam motorbike tour 6 days

Day 1: Hanoi – Mai Chau: 170 Km (L,D – Home Stay)
 
Motorbike tour to Mai Chau starts from the western outskirts of Hanoi at 8:30 am. Just after 45 minute riding we will be in countryside back- roads through some rural villages locating between hills and rice fields. Lunch is in Yen Lac – Hoa Binh provice, the ride in the afternoon promise to be one of the best Northern Vietnam motorbike tours, As the Vietnam Typical Tour, we are different from the other motorcycle tour organizers to take you on the better and safer roads with more beautiful view. All this motorbike ride is on mountain back-roads with beautiful view of mountain, river and cute houses on stilts. We will be in Mai Chau valley at 5:00 pm. Home stay with the Thai people.

Day 2: Mai Chau – Phu Yen: 150 Km (B,L,D – Hotel Stay)

After local breakfast with the host, take it easy with a short walk around the peaceful villages of the Thai people who live on the stilted-houses. Then get back to the bikes and keep motorcycle touring North Vietnam up to Moc Chau. To avoid the highway No 6, we will motorcycle on the small mountain road that was built by the French, this road is almost empty and offers very beautiful view of mountain. The short motorbike ride on this forgotten road must be the highlight of the northwest Vietnam motorcycle tour. After lunch in Moc Chau we will hit all the way to Da river lake, after crossing the lake, we’ll have another great motorbike ride along the river, this ride promise to be the same as the coastal road Vietnam motorcycle tour. We arrive at Phu Yen in early afternoon, if you are not tired you can keep riding around the Phu Yen valley through some villages and rice fields, it can offer a joyful motorcycle ride.

Day 3: Phu Yen – Mu Cang Chai – Than Uyen: 210 Km (B,L,D – Hotel stay)
 
We have “Pho” – a “must-try” food in Vietnam for breakfast. Depart at around 8:00 am. the ride today will be surely the highlight of the Northern Vietnam motorbike tour. We’ll cross some of the longest and most beautiful mountain passes in North of Vietnam which can give you amazing pictures of mountain and terrace fields. The road is smooth and sealed but the scenery and the rustic villages of the hill tribes a long the way will make you stop every meters of the road. Personally, this is one of the best motorbike tours in Vietnam. We will end the day at the hotel in Than Uyen at 5:00 pm.

Day 4: Than Uyen – Sapa: 110 Km (B,L,D – Hotel)
 
This motorbike ride to Sapa is another highlight of the northwestern Vietnam motorcycle tour. The ride of the first half will cross large green tea plantaion and then the other half of the ride must be one of the best motorbike tours in Vietnam when we motorcycle up and up on the O Qui Ho pass – one of the longest and most beautiful pass in Northern Vietnam. We will be in up to level of 1600 m above the sea level where we call the town in cloud – Sapa at noon time. In the afternoon, we will have short motorbike tour around Sapa to some rustic villages of the Black H’mong , the Tay and the Zay people, in addition, the Sapa motorbike ride along the Muong Hoa valley promises to give you plenty pictures of breathtaking scenery of this most beautiful valley in North Vietnam. We will be back to the hotel in Sapa town in the late afternoon.

Day 5: Sapa – Thac Ba Lake: 220 Km (B,L,D – Home stay)

Start the Sapa motorbike tour to Thac Ba lake earlier than usual. Back on the bike at around 8:00 and enjoy a great ride on the small winding mountain roads through some rural villages located on the mountain with nice terrace surrounded. The motorbike trip to Thac Ba lake today offers a great chance to see China because after Sapa we will get close to China and have a short ride along the border. After lunch in Pho Rang, we will make a turn to back-roads through lovely villages with beautiful rice fields between the palm tree hills. The last 80 km ride must be one of the most beautiful motorbike tours in Northern Vietnam. We will be in peaceful village of the Dzao people that located nearby the Thac Ba lake bank, drop the bikes in the village and have a great boat trip around the lake for about one hour.

Day 6: Thac Ba Lake – Hanoi: 180 Km (B,L)
 
Unlike the other motorbike Tour organizers, the local team of Vietnam Typical Motorcycle Tour will take back to Hanoi on our own road we can be sure that it is much less busier and than their roads. They can copy the text but they can’t copy our good road if they just stay in the office with the computer. Upon on your request, we can offer a short off-road motorbike ride nearby Thac Ba lake. We have no choice for the last 20 km in Hanoi but riding slowly with many other local scooters back to the hotel in city center. We will finish the Northwest Vietnam motorcycle tour at about 4:00 pm.

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HANOI - DONG VAN ROCK PLATEAU 4 Days

Day 1: Hanoi - Ha Giang (L, D)

Our guide will pick-up you at your hotel in Hanoi. On the way to Ha Giang we will visit Ethnology Museum in Thai Nguyen province. Arrive Ha Giang, visit a Tay village, stay with local people in their house.

Day 2: Ha Giang - Quan Ba - Yen Minh - Dong Van (B, L, D)
 
After breakfast get on car to Dong Van, on the way visit Lung Tam handicraft village of H'Mong hill tribe. Have some stops for taking photo and contemplate breath taking landscape of the area. Have lunch en route.
Afternoon visit some villages on the way. Visit Vuong Chi Sinh's house, a land lord of H'Mong hill tribe in the past.
Arrive Dong Van, check in guest house, free time to visit the small town.

Day 3: Dong Van - Meo Vac - Ha Giang (B, L, D)

Have breakfast and visit Dong Van Market (market day on Sunday). Depart to Meo Vac on Ma Pi Leng Pass. On the way you can visit Meo Vac or Lung Phinh market (if on market day). Have lunch in Yen Minh town.
On the way to Ha Giang visit a Dzao village of Na Khe. Have dinner and stay at a hotel in Ha Giang.

Day 4: Ha Giang - Hanoi (B, L)
 
After breakfast, check-out and get on our car back to Hanoi.

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Ha Giang trekking 5 days

Day 1: Drive Hanoi – Ha Giang

8:00: You will be met up with VietNam Typical Tour team at your hotel in Hanoi and transferred to Ha Giang via Tuyen Quang province.
Enjoy natural landscape, green fields, palm hill and villages. Upon arrival in Tuyen Quang town, we can make a stop and visit a village of the Tay. We will arrive in Ha Giang town in the late afternoon. Check into a local house for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Ha Giang – Nam Mu. Ha Giang hilltribe villages trek.
 
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Nam Mu hydroelectric where you will begin the the 4-day trekking tour.
We will hike through local hilltribe villages mostly inhabited by the Dao people. We will make some stops on the way visiting local houses, talking with local villagers.
Late afternoon. We will arrive in a Dao village where we will spend the night.

Day 3:  Nam Mu – Quang Ngan – Len hamlet

After breakfast, we say good bye to the villages and continue our road trip to Viet Lam.
Upon our arrival in Viet Lam, we will have the opportunity to take a bath in the hotspring of Quang Ngan.
Check into a local house in Len hamlet of the Tay.

Day 4: Len hamlet – Ban Dang – Chat Tien – Ban Me
 
After breakfast, we will have a short walk exploring the village, taking some pictures of daily life.
Then we leave the village, following village trail hiking through Ban Dang, Chat Tien villages. These are two villages inhabited by the Tay and the Dao.
We arrive Me village about late afternoon. Check into a local house for dinner and overnight.

Day 5: Ha Giang – Hanoi.

After breakfast, provided in the village stilt house, we will enjoy about 6-hour drive from Ha Giang to Hanoi. End of VietNam Typical Tour service.
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Motorbike Tour To Ha Giang – 6 Days

Day 1: Hanoi Motorbike Tour to Thac Ba Lake – Vu Linh. 180 km
 
Start the motorbike tour to Ha Giang – north Vietnam at 8 AM from the Northeast side of Hanoi, we ride up to the North of  Hanoi by taking a small, winding road along the Red river. Enjoy great view of river and rice paddies as we ride through country and extensive farming lands comprising a sea of paddy fields split by tree-lined roads. Meet the daily life in the wild environment. Lunch at a local restaurant in  Doan Hung Town. Arrive in Vu Linh – nice village of the Dzao people that located nearby the Thac Ba lake – the largest man-made lake with more than 3000 islands. . If time permits, you will have boat trip around the Thac Ba Lake.
Home stay and dinner in Vu Linh village.

Day 2: Thac Ba lake Motorcycle to  Ha Giang. 180 km
 
After breakfast, ride along the Thac Ba lake on a small road lined by palm trees and scenic mountain views to join the National road No 2 heading up to Ha Giang where we stop for the night. Before getting to the Tay village where we do home stay, we should stop at Ha Giang city to ask permit for the Motorbike tour to the Dong Van Rock Plateau and frontier area in following days .
Home stay and dinner in the Tay’s village.

Day 3: Ha Giang  Motorbike Tour to The Dong Van Rock Plateau . 150 km
 
Today we will have one of the best Vietnam motorbike tours. The ride today is mostly on small challenging mountain roads (but incredibly beautiful) on the land of colorful hill-tribes. We will be on some of most beautiful passes in Vietnam such as the Ma Pi Leng, ‘Heaven Gate’ pass . Here is also good chance to learn and experience the colorful culture of local tribes. It is inspiring to see how they survive as they manage live in the rocks. When we reach town we will have some extra time to wonder the ancient streets lined with H’mong homes of clay bricks and tiles roofs built centuries ago.Amazing Motorbike Tour To Ha Giang – 6 Days
Hotel stay in Dong Van.

Day 4: Dong Van – Bao Lac. 110 km

The motorbike ride in the morning is still winding along the Rock Plateau, after breakfast, enjoy slowly Vietnam motorbike tour on some beautiful mountain passes until Meo Vac where we stop for lunch. In the afternoon, we will motorcycle down hill along the river and see the different mountain view( less rocky and more green). Arrive in Bao Lac town at 5 PM.
Hotel stay in Bao Lac.

Day 5: Off-Road Motorbike Tour to Ba Be Lake. 150 km
 
To save time for the boat trip in Ba Be lake, We should start the day earlier so after breakfast, we start riding at around 8.am . Today is exactly the best offroad Vietnam motorbike tour. Just after 20km from Bao Lac we turn to narrow and bumpy road with breathtaking view of terrace rice paddies. Especially, we have to cross few rivers instead of rinding on some bamboo bridges. Finishing the memorable riding day with lunch in a peaceful village of  the Tay people nearby Ba be lake .
It’s time for relaxing on one of the most beautiful and biggest natural lake in Vietnam in the afternoon.

Day 6: Ba Be Lake Motorbike Ride Back to Hanoi. 240 km
 
Staying off the main road for as long as possible we head back towards the Red River Delta, passing through areas inhabited by Hmong, Dao, Tay and Nung minority peoples. A mixture of both challenging track and glorious sealed road all the way back to Hanoi. the great Vietnam motorbike tour to Ha Giang – north Vietnam will end safely in Hanoi before rush hours.

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Around Northern Vietnam by Motorcycle 12 days

Day 1: Hanoi – Mai Chau : 170 km  (L,D – Home stay)

This Hanoi motorbike tour to Mai Chau valley starts at around 8:30 AM. Ride motorbike to the north west of Hanoi. After one hour riding, we will be in mountain area and the motorcycle tour to Mai Chau becomes very enjoyable. The ride is almost on the small countryside roads along the Da river through rice fields and farming villages, after lunch in Hoa Binh we will ride through plenty of limestone mountain between the rustic village of the Muong and the Thai people. Especially after lunch in Hoa Binh we will have great ride along the Da river lake, the winding road along the rider offer a stunning view of lime stone mountain and the green water lake. The ride will remind you motorcycle tours on coastlines in central or southern Vietnam. This route is the new discovery of Vietnam Motorbike Tour Expert Co, Ltd so it makes the trip different. Arrive Mai Chau valley at around 5 PM.

Day 2: Mai Chau – Phu Yen: 150 km (B,L,D – Hotel stay)

Breakfast at 8:00 am, It’s a easy and relaxing riding day so after breakfast we can take it easy with a short walk around the village to learn more about the interesting daily life of the Thai people. After saying good bye the hosts, we continue the Northern Vietnam motorcycle tour to Moc Chau, getting out of the valley by riding up and up to higher lands, we will see more villages of the Mong people. Once we get close to Moc Chau plateau, we’ll make a turn to small quiet road named Hua Tat pass, that is old French-built road with a great view of mountain so you can surely have great motorcycle ride on.
After lunch in Moc Chau, we will motorbike all the way down to the Da river lake to cross the river lake to Phu Yen. Before getting to Phu Yen town, we will have beautiful ride along the Da river this could be the highlight of this Northwest Vietnam motorbike tour. The ride will remind you of the motorcycle tour on coastlines in Central or in the South Vietnam. We’ll finish the day at the hotel in small town of Phu Yen at 4:30 pm.

Day 3: Phu Yen – Son La: 170 km (B,L,D – Hotel stay)

After breakfast with “Pho” – or local rice noodle soup, we will keep motorcycle touring Northern Vietnam to Son La. The ride toady is almost on the sealed road but offers a beautiful view of mountains with terrace fields and many nice villages of the Thai people. it also provides a great opportunity to watch the daily life of the local hill tribes. We continue through rolling hills before rising up to the sugar cane growing areas on the cooler plateau Son La. This Northwest Vietnam motorbike tour to Son La is another easy ride but you won’t feel boring because you will see many things in difference from the mountain view of 2 days before. Arrive Son la city at around 4:30 pm, after checking in the room, we can have short walk to the vestige of Son La prison – one of the most horrible prison built by the French. That visit will help to learn more about the Indochina War.

Day 4: Son La – Muong Lay: 180 km (B,L,D – Hotel stay)

This is quite big day with a lot of challenges to ride off-road or to be winding with the mountain passes but it is the highlight of the motorbike tour northern Vietnam. The first half of the ride is on smooth road No 6 through some mountain passes especially we will cross the famous Pha Din pass, one of the longest and most beautiful passes in North Vietnam. The Vietnamese government did build another pass instead of the old Pha Din pass but the old one is still ideal for motorcycle riding because it shows more beautiful view and almost quiet so it still one of the best passes for motorcycle tours in North Vietnam. After the long and beautiful Pha Din pass, we will have lunch and the ride after lunch is completely different. We will make a turn to a back countryside roads, in addition it’s possible to have some great offroad motorcycle ride along the rugged roads to Muong Lay. We arrive the riverside town of Muong Lay at 5:00 pm.

Day 5: Muong lay – Sin Ho – Lai Chau: 130 km (B,L,D – Hotel stay)
 
It’s a short motorbike tour to Lai Chau but it could be the best motorbike trip in North Vietnam including on and offroad ride with amazing view of mountains, river and rice fields. We start the ride with a great riding along the Da river lake. It cant speak highly enough the beauty of this ride it’s likely the motorbike tour on coastline in Central Vietnam but you can see more beautiful view of mountains here. After the ride along the river bank, we’ll hit the winding pass up and up to Sin Ho town where we have lunch. The town locates at the level of around 1500 meters above the sea so it’s usually foggy and cloudy and it’s a good destination for motorbike touring in Vietnam. After lunch we hit the road down all the way to Lai Chau. This short motorbike ride promises to be one of the best off-road motorbike tours Vietnam. We will finish the enjoyable Northern Vietnam motorbike tour to Lai Chau at 4: 00 pm, check in at the local hotel and enjoy a short walk around the market in town.

Day 6 : Lai Chau – Sapa : 120 km  (B,L,D – Hotel stay)

The motorbike tour to Sapa starts at 8:00 am. The first 50 km is on the sealed and smooth road with a great view of mountain and crosses through many rustic villages of the colorful hill tribes. The other half of the route to Sapa is crossing the O Qui Ho pass – one of the most beautiful and longest passes in North Vietnam. The view of the mountain here makes the Vietnam motorbike tour to Sapa becomes one of the most enjoyable motorcycle tours in North Vietnam. We’ll be in Sapa at noon time, lunch is served in a fancy restaurant with all great local food. Checking in the hotel after that and in the afternoon we can have short walk to the village of the H’mong people or take a short motorbike tour around Sapa to some rustic villages where the other tourists do trekking to.

Day 7: Sapa Motorbike Tour to Bac Ha: 150 km (B,L,D – Home stay)
 
We’ll start the day at about 9:00 am when the sun clear out most of the fog. Continue the 12 Northern Vietnam motorbike tour with the slow ride out of the Sapa town. Instead of riding on the big road down to Lao Cai, we’ll take a turn right after the Sapa town to ride on the rugged winding road through villages of the Red Dzao, H’Mong…we will have chance to see the Chinese border when we get to Lao Cai city. After a hot coffee at the border, we have easy Vietnam motorcycle tour to Bac Ha on the winding, smooth road, crossing some beautiful mountain passes and finish the day in a peaceful village of Bac Ha. We will do home stay with the Tay people.

Day 8: Bac Ha – Ha Giang: 180 km ( Offroad motorbike tour to Ha Giang) – B,L,D – Hotel stay
 
It’s a big day of this motorcycle tour in North Vietnam. the ride is quite long and offers most off-road and back road motorbike ride through many villages of the hill tribes. In addition, if we do this tour in the rice season we will have great pictures of the rice terrace fields. It’s quite hard ride for the novice but could be one of the best Vietnam motorcycle tour. We will be in Ha Giang at 5:00 pm. You can choose to stay in town at the hotel or stay in a quiet village of the Tay people nearby Ha Giang.
Day 9 : Ha Giang – Dong Van: 150 km  (B,L,D – Hotel stay)
It’s another great ride! After many years riding motorbike to Ha Giang, this ride today still makes us feel excited. The road is mostly quiet (along the Chinese border), the scenery is imposing and the local tribe is unique, that makes the Ha Giang motorbike tour to Dong Van is one of the best motorbike tours in Vietnam. We can have beautiful pictures at every meters of the road. We anyway have to end the day in Dong Van town at around 5 pm. Stay in a guesthouse in town.

Day 10: Dong Van – Bao Lac: 160 km (B,L,D – Hotel stay)

Keep enjoying the Northern Vietnam motorbike tour to Bao Lac. The ride in the morning is still on the Global Rock plateau of Dong Van – Ha Giang so you still have great pictures of the stunning view; especially, we’ll cross the Ma Pi Leng – one of the most beautiful passes in Northern Vietnam that surely makes you stop for picturing even though your camera is being full of beautiful things. The motorbike ride in the afternoon offers a different view of mountain when we’re going down and down along the Nho Que river. We will be at the hotel in Bao Lac around 5:00 pm

Day 11: Bao Lac – Ba Be Lake: 150 km (B,l,D – Home stay)
 
Unlike the days before, the motorbike tour to Ba Be lake today is a difference. With the experienced team of Hanoi Motorcycle Tour, you will have great off-road motorbike tour or interesting ride on back countryside roads to Ba Be National park. This short Vietnam motorbike tour Ba Be will finish at the lunch time in the village nearby the lake. After lunch, we will have enjoyable boat tour around Ba Be lake for about 1,5 hour. We’ll stay overnight in the village of the Tay people who live nearby the Ba Be national park.

Day 12: Ba Be lake – Hanoi: 240 km (B,L)
 
It’s a big riding day to finish the great motorbike tour in North Vietnam. The experienced team of Vietnam Motorbike Tour Expert will do the best to keep you away from the big and busy road as long as possible. The last 50 km could be busy ride while we get closer to the city center. We will be back to the hotel and say good bye to our team before rush hours just in order to end your great motorbike trip easily and safely.

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Ha Giang Weather

The topography of the province of Hà Giang is fairly complex with “temperate, but highly localized montane weather patterns create variable conditions among different regions”. It has very impressive land form of limestone and granite peaks and outcrops. It has three regions.
Climatically, it has two seasons, a dry and monsoon season dependent on the altitude of the region. The two northern Indochinese climatic zones on the border influence the climate in that part of the province. The lower areas in the province comprise low hills, the Lô River Valley and the town of Ha Giang. In Cao Bo district, the dry season lasts from mid-September until the end of May, and the balance period of the year is the rainy season. However, in Du Gia district the wet season set in one month earlier. The average annual temperature in the provincial city of Ha Giang City is 22.78 °C (73.00 °F); the monthly averages range from a low of 15.48 °C (59.86 °F) in January to a high of27.88 °C (82.18 °F)C in July.
The annual rainfall in Ha Giang City is 2,430.1 millimetres (95.67 in); the monthly average varies from a low of 31.5 millimetres (1.24 in) in December to a high of 515.6 millimetres (20.30 in) in July.
The average annual humidity level is 84%.

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HANOI - HA GIANG 4-DAY TREKKING TOUR

Day 1: Drive Hanoi – Ha Giang
 
8:00: You will be met up with Vietnamtypicaltour at your hotel in Hanoi and transferred to Ha Giang via Tuyen Quang province.
Enjoy natural landscape, green fields, palm hill and villages. Upon arrival in Tuyen Quang town, we can make a stop and visit a village of the Tay. We will arrive in Ha Giang town in the late afternoon. Check into a local house for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Ha Giang – Nam Mu. Ha Giang hilltribe villages trek.
 
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Nam Mu hydroelectric where you will begin the the 4-day trekking tour.
We will hike through local hilltribe villages mostly inhabited by the Dao people. We will make some stops on the way visiting local houses, talking with local villagers.
Late afternoon. We will arrive in a Dao village where we will spend the night.

Day 3:  Nam Mu – Quang Ngan – Len hamlet

After breakfast, we say good bye to the villages and continue our road trip to Viet Lam.
Upon our arrival in Viet Lam, we will have the opportunity to take a bath in the hotspring of Quang Ngan.
Check into a local house in Len hamlet of the Tay.

Day 4: Len hamlet – Ban Dang – Chat Tien – Ban Me
 
After breakfast, we will have a short walk exploring the village, taking some pictures of daily life.
Then we leave the village, following village trail hiking through Ban Dang, Chat Tien villages. These are two villages inhabited by the Tay and the Dao.
We arrive Me village about late afternoon. Check into a local house for dinner and overnight.

Day 5: Ha Giang – Hanoi.
 
After breakfast, provided in the village stilt house, we will enjoy about 6-hour drive from Ha Giang to Hanoi. End of Vietnamtypicaltour service.

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Sapa Ha Giang Adventure tour 9 days

Day 1: Arrival - Hanoi
 
Pick up at the airport to transfer to hotel. Check in hotel. Having welcome dinner at local restaurant. 

Day 2: Hanoi City Tour
 
Full day Hanoi city tour: Visit to HCM complex including Ho Chi Minh mausoleum (close on Mondays and Fridays mornings and whole October and November for annual repairs), Presidential palace, house on stilts, One pillar pagoda; the Temple of Literature; Ethnology Museum; “ Hanoi Hilton” prison; a Complex of The Hoan Kiem Lake; fine art museum. One hour cyclo ride around the Hanoi Old Quarter to observe daily life of and enjoy shopping. Water puppet show. 

Day 3: Hanoi - Ha Giang
 
We leave Ha Noi for Ha Giang at 8:00. Lunch on route. O/n in Ha Giang town.

Day 4: Ha Giang - Dong Van
 
We drive up to altitude of 1500meter above sea level, through the mountain landscape and paddy-field terraces. Stop en route for photos at Quyet tien ethnic minority market where the minorities of Nung, White H’Mong, Po Y, Dao lantern, Tay gather for trade. Continue to Heaven Gate, fairy mountain before reaching a white h’Mong village specialize in flax weaving.After lunch drive up to the mountain of 1432m to visit the old village of White H’Mong and later Pho Bang – an ancient town of Chinese people, once considered Hongkong city before 1978 (border conflict in 1979). Stop en route for photos at Chin Khoang slip. Continue to Sung La to visit Pao’s house (from a famous movie), explore the beautiful architecture of an ancient house of H’mong and Lo Lo’s house before a visit to the old H’mong King Palace, belongs to Vuong family.

Day 5: Dong van - Meo vac - Ha Giang
 
Breakfast in the hotel. We visit minority market right in Dong Van before reaching Ma Pi Leng top (1,245m) to have the panoramic view of rocky mountain, the river and the paddy–field terraces. Continue to Meo Vac for another minority market before visit several villages of Dao. Return to Ha Giang late afternoon. o/n in Ha Giang.

Day 6: Ha Giang
 
Morning visit Ha Giang museum and Tay minority at Phuong Do village before leaving Ha Giang for Viet Lam. Upon arrival in Viet Lam village, check in at local house. After lunch there, take a biking/walking tour around the Hat and Trang villages, enjoy the scenery of the paddy-field and daily life of Tay people. Drive to home stay. Visit to tay minority at Phuong do village before returning to local house in Viet Lam.

Day 7: Ha Giang - Sa Pa 

We leave village for Sa Pa. the scenery on route is quite beautiful. We arrive in Sa Pa around 4:00 PM. After dinner, you are free strolling around the little town. The town of 1600 elevation, once was summer retreat of French officials, is quite popular now thanks to its scenic landscape, colorful hill tribes and cool climate in summer.

Day 8: Sa Pa - Surrounding villages - Hanoi

We will be transferred to the vicinity of Sapa to Muong Hoa valley where black H’mong, Red DZao, Zay live. Picnic lunch. Drive back to Lao Cai for taking night train to Ha noi.

Day 9: Hanoi - Departure

Arrive in Ha noi about 5h30Am, visit to flower market and Hoan Kiem lake where local people doing morning exercises like Tachi, jugging, etc. Transfer to the air port for flight home.
 

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HANOI - DONG VAN ROCKY PLATEAU - TREKKING, HOMESTAY

Day 1: Hanoi - Ha Giang (L, D)
 
Our guide will pick-up you at your hotel in Hanoi. On the way to Ha Giang we will visit Ethnology Museum in Thai Nguyen province. Arrive Ha Giang, go to a Tay village, free time to see daily life of local people.
Enjoy homestay with local host.

Day 2: Trekking day (B, L, D)
 
After breakfast start trekking to Dzao village, enjoy breathtaking landscape with terrace field, palm tree, people working on their farm. Have lunch in the village.
Afternoon visit more around the village then come back to Tay village.
Have dinner and stay with local people.

Day 3: Ha Giang - Meo Vac (B, L, D)
 
After breakfast say good bye to the host, get on car to Meo Vac. Have some stops on the way to contemplate landscape, take photo, visit market (if on market day).
Arrive Meo Vac, visit a nearby village of Sang Pa A (Lo Lo hill tribe). Enjoy dinner and stay at hotel in Meo Vac town.

Day 4: Meo Vac - Dong Van - Yen Minh - Ha Giang (B, L, D)

Have breakfast and visit Meo Vac Market (market day on Sunday). Depart to Dong Van on Ma Pi Leng Pass. Have lunch en route.
Afternoon visit Vuong Chi Sinh's house, a land lord of H'Mong hill tribe in the past. Keep going to Ha Giang, enjoy landscape in Yen Minh pine forest, have some stops for photo taking.
Arrive Ha Giang, check in hotel, have dinner and free to visit Ha Giang town.

Day 5: Ha Giang - Hanoi (B, L)

After breakfast, check-out and get on our car back to Hanoi.

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