7:30pm (you can also leave at 10am & arrive at 4pm if you want) Meeting at our hostel for departure by over night sleeper bus to Ha Giang city and We will arrive about 4am. The bus drop you off at our base in Hagiang city, Where We arrange you free room (the first night in Hagiang included) so you can take a rest, shower, then having breakfast before we tart the trip to exploring the loop in the next day.
Day 1: Ha Giang – Quan Ba – Du Gia, approx (120 km drive)
After some breakfast, we go out on ‘Road of Happiness’ and start driving north out of Ha Giang City. We climb up the Quan Ba mountain pass and enter the Dong Van Geopark and reach the Heaven’s Gate and pass the Fairy Hills. In or around the small town of Tam Son we find our lunch. Thereafter we venture deep into Ha Giang mountains and reach the picturesque village of Du Gia. Here we will stay with an ethnic minority family at their homestay. We will have dinner and breakfast with the family (Day includes Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner).
Day 2: Du Gia – Meo Vac – Nho Que river - Ma Pi Leng – Dong Van (approx. 110 to 150 km drive)
We say thanks to the family of the homestay and head north, passing some of the most magnificent mountain passes you will ever have seen, pass the town of Meo Vac (where we take lunch). Then you will take a boat trip on Nho Que river that passes through Tu San Abyss Alley and then runs along Ma Pi Leng. Lastly, you will move up the majestic Ma Pi Leng mountain pass before reaching Dong Van, the most northern town in Vietnam. Back to Dong Van where we take into a hotel or homestay as agreed for the tour. Maybe a Hot Pot for dinner?! (Day includes Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner).
Day 3: Dong Van – Lung Cu - Sa Phin – Yen Minh – Nam Dam (approx. 120 km drive)
If we are waking up on a Sunday in Dong Van the weekly big local market meets you before or after a breakfast. More ethnic minority groups than you can count have travelled on Saturday or extremely early on Sunday to reach here. Really colourful and people from near and far to do their weekly shopping and gossiping. Thereafter, we go to the North pole. Anyway, that is what the most northern point of Vietnam is jokingly called – Lung Cu. We can climb the Lung Cu Flagpole and view China from the top, then we turn south and when we reach Sa Phin we visit the one-hundred-year-old palace of Vuong Chinh Duc – the King of H’mong people. We go down the Highland of Stone and reach Yen Minh where we take lunch and then climb a mountain pass covered in pine forest and sweeping rice terraces along our drive. Down to the Song La river valley until the road takes us towards the village of Nam Dam where we check in with a lovely Dao ethnic minority family in their home and enjoy dinner and breakfast with them. (Day includes Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner).
Day 4: Nam Dam – Lung Khuy – Tam Son – Ha Giang City (approx. 70 km drive)
We enjoy village life after breakfast, walk around the village and might go up to the local waterfall. Then we go and explore the Lung Khuy cave. We take lunch in Tam Son after which we will explore a stunningly beautiful side-loop that connect us back to Road of Happiness and back to Ha Giang City, where we will get on the bus about 5pm to head back to Hanoi. Where the tour ends. (Day includes Breakfast, Lunch).