Ha Giang Vietnam Hiking Tour 4 Days from Hanoi

Product Description

Ha Giang Hiking Tour – 4 Day Itinerary is another north Vietnam best hiking package has been recently launched in Ha Giang remote hill tribe villages. Begin the trip by having 6 hour road trip Hanoi to Hoang Su Phi. There you discover non-touristy hilltribe villages of Ha Giang province such as Ban Luoc, Ban May, Ban Nhung, Ban Peo, Tung San, Dan Van, Ho Thau, Nam Son…These villages still stay away from mass tourism. Book this package to be ones of the first people to be welcome in the far north of Vietnam.

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Day-To-Day Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi – Ha Giang.

Picked up at your hotel in Hanoi and transferred to My Dinh bus station. Board the local public coach & depart for Ha Giang city. Arrive Ha Giang in the afternoon. Picked up by the Lotussia local team at Ha Giang bus station and brought to a local hotel for checking in. Overnight in Ha Giang at hotel.

Day 2: Ha Giang Trekking Homestay.

Leave hotel at 08.00am, transfer to HAT Village of the TAY. The village is beautifully set in a large valley at the foot of Tay Con Linh Mountain. Trekking along a large path, first getting through rice fields and the large village of the Tay peoples who live in spacious wooden house on stilts. Drop in some houses, meet hospitable peoples for a discovery of local way of life. Once leaving the village, the path gets tougher as it winds up steep mountain side. After trekking for nearly 2 hours, you arrive Ban Luoc village is inhabited by the Dzao. The village is set among lush forest at 1669ft. Explore this village for understanding the uniqueness of their culture, custom and way of life. Lunch is served in a local home. Leave Ban Luoc and trek about 1.5 hour along a narrow path which sneaks on high elevation of the mountain side. Keep hiking through the lush forest, bamboo and tea plantations, passing by some isolated hamlets of the Dzao Ao Dai. Reach to the top of the trekking trail today in mid afternoon (2,975ft) and having break. The panorama from here offers impressive scenery of Thuong Son Valley which is home to the Nung and Zao ethnics. Continue trekking gradually downhill for an hour to Ban May Village of the Nung and Zao which situated at 1,800ft high on the two banks of Thuong Son spring. Check into a beautiful wooden stilt house for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Ha Giang Trekking Homestay.

After breakfast, say goodbye to our host at 08.30AM. Cross the spring by suspension bridge and follow the village path to get through several hamlets of the Zao and Nung peoples. Then follow a narrow dirt trail which winds up and down all the way on the left side of Thuong Son Valley. Hike through lush rain forest and tea plantation for over 2 hours, gradually processing uphill to the top of Tung San Pass (from 1,800ft to 3,946ft). This portion of the trek offers stunning scenery of Thuong Son Valley, Tay Con Linh Mountain, and series of waterfalls. Once arriving to the top of the pass which is called HEAVEN GATE, the marvelous panorama of Tay Con Linh.Mt (the 2nd highest peak in Vietnam), you will have noon break while your support team prepare lunch. The afternoon hike gets along a large trail which runs gradually downhill on the left side of Tung San valley for about 2 hours and offering breathtaking panorama of the west side of Tay Con Linh Mountain and another spectacular valley featured with impressive terraced fields on steep hillsides, which is probably the most beautiful one in Vietnam! Arrive in Ban Nhung Village (at 2,491ft high) at about 3.30PM, Check in our local home-stay, a wooden house on stilt of the Zao Ao Dai. The rest of the day is for a short walk to explore further the hamlet of the La Hu ethnic peoples, one of the smallest ethnic group in Vietnam.

Day 4: Ha Giang – Hoang Su Phi – Hanoi.

Leave Ban Nhung Village at 08.30AM. Trekking along the large village path through Hop Nhat Village which includes several small hamlets of the Hmong, Zao and Nung. Enjoy several stops for paying visit to local homes. Then turn left to follow a narrow dirt track getting along the southern bank of the Tung San Valley. It is about 5km wide and 12km long. The track wind on the mountain side, passing through tea plantation, forest and small villages, and offers great panorama of the valley as well as the chance to meet up with the Nung, Zao and H’mong along the way. From 2,491ft to 1,534ft. Lunch break in local home or picnic if weather permits. Continue trekking for 2 more hours along the large path which gradually getting downhill. Crossing a stream and heading to Tan Tien Bridge at 1,240ft elevation. Picked up by your car and transferred 55km to Tan Quang junction. Photo stops are scheduled in Ban Peo which offers spectacular panorama of Thong Nguyen valley (optional). Thong Nguyen valley is part of the national heritage site of the TERRACED FIELDS. Having day used room for shower in Vinh Quang, have dinner before boarding the overnight bus for Hanoi. Departure at about 21.00pm.

Note: Arrive back to Hanoi the next day in the early morning at 5.00am, picked up by the Hanoi team and transferred back to your hotel downtown. End.

Extension

On day 4 afternoon, picked up at the end of the trek and transferred 5K to Hoang Su Phi town, overnight in Hoang Su Phi at hotel.

Day 5: Hoang Su Phi Market (Sunday) – Hanoi.

Breakfast at the hotel. Spend the whole morning attending the Sunday Market which is unique and famous for its festive atmosphere. It is the market place where you have the chance to meet up with different ethnic groups including Hmong, Zao, Tay, Nung who wear their best traditional cloths. The market is not only the place for shopping, trading, but also the “social club” where they meet up with each other. Lunch is served in a local restaurant. Check out hotel at noon, then spend 2 hours walking along the upstream of the Chay River to explore Ban Luoc Commune (option). Picked up by your car and transferred 55km to Tan Quang junction with optional photo stops along the way. Having day used room for shower, then have dinner before you board the overnight bus at 21.00pm for Hanoi. Ha Giang Hiking Tour is completed.

Note: Arrive back to Hanoi the next day in the early morning at 5.00am, picked up by the Hanoi team and transferred back to your hotel downtown. End.

Ha Giang private guided tours

Lotussia Travel is a Hanoi tour operator offering a wide selection of multi-activity holidays in Vietnam. Options include countryside cycle, biking, road cycling, jungle trek, trekking homestay, mountain hiking, peaks climbs, motorbike, scouter touring, camping, caving expeditions, kayaking, boat trips, cruise, street food, sightseeing, culture tours. Most of our trips are private customized, and specially designed for small group tours, family vacations. The itinerary above – Ha Giang Hiking Tour is only a sample that can be further customized to fit your requirements better. Just follow it or contact us for designing your perfect adventure in Ha Giang Vietnam.

Additional Information

Depart from	Hanoi
End at	Hanoi
Availability	Upon Request
Adventure level	Challenging
Primary activity	Trekking
Trip duration	4 days
Travel destination	Ha Giang, Hoang Su Phi
Other activities	Beautiful Landscape, Ethnic Culture, Homestay Experience

Itinerary disclaimer

Occasionally our tour itineraries are updated during the year to incorporate improvements stemming from past travelers’ comments and our own research. The information given in this itinerary may be slightly different to that in the service proposal. It’s very important that you print and review a final copy of your itinerary a couple of days prior to travel, in case there have been changes that affect your plans. If you have any queries, please contact us. We are here to help you!

Please note that while we operate successful trips in Vietnam throughout the year, some changes may occur in our itineraries due to inclement weather and common seasonal changes to timetables and transport routes. This can happen with little notice so please be prepared for modifications to the route. The order and timing of included activities in each location may also vary from time to time.

Inclusions

Depending on the proposed option (semi-guide tour or all-inclusive package tour), the price may include the following services. Please bear in mind Lotussia Travel is specialized in tailor-made trips. Trip cost vary depending on group size and other details.

Car transfers.
Local tour guide. The English-Speaking guide is provided by default. Other language may be available upon request (with extra charge).
Meals.
Entrance fees.

Exclusions

Unless required most of the following services are usually not included in our tour price.

Visa
Flight/Train tickets.
Accommodation.
Tour leader.
Local porter(s).
International travel insurance.
Drinks.
Tips.
Personal expenses.

Tour guide

Our tour guides speak English or French. They hold a university degree in tourism and national license as a guide. If you wish to send a tour leader along with any group, he or she can fully rely on the knowledge and experience of our local guides.

Remote treks are always accompanied by a local representative to deal with permits and authorities and manage the porter team. They speak the local dialects, know the cultural traditions and give tips on suggested behavior in fragile ecological areas and tribal communities. For some itineraries, the role of tour leader and representative is combined.

Driver

Our drivers don’t speak English. It’s possible that a few of them might know some basic words, such as telling time, stop, and lunch. If you’re looking for effective communication throughout the journey, we highly recommend booking a tour guide.

Trip routes

Principally, Lotussia Travel requires all the trip associates to know the destinations well by any means of traveling or enquiry to the local suppliers to figure out all the relative details of any trip. For adventure tours such as jungle trekking, mountain hiking, sea kayaking, river rafting or biking, cycling tours, Lotussia Travel will never add any new routes into available schedule until survey or pre-view it.

Accommodation

Lotussia Travel carefully choose all the hotels, guest-houses or home-stays based on service quality, location, and characteristics, doing best to make the accommodations in the remote small places as comfortable as possible. Please bear in mind that hotels in Vietnam might not be in the same standard in other country. Generally hotels in major cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh city, Hoian, Hue…are much better than hotels and guest-houses in mountainous areas.

Meals

Lotussia Travel take dinning as an indispensable experience to clients since it is an important part in Vietnamese culture. Therefore, Lotussia Travel will not intend take clients to the most expensive restaurants but non-touristy local ones which offer delicious, local food, with nice or interesting atmosphere. The restaurants might be simple in the country but LOTUSSIA Travel guarantee is sanitary and cleanliness. Or even on our trek, we encourage our cook offer client food with new tastes from day to day. During adventure itineraries to mountainous or remote areas, there is sometimes no choice for hotel and restaurants. We will try our best to bring you the best taste of local food.

Drinks

As the tap water in Vietnam is undrinkable, Lotussia Travel recommend clients to drink bottled water throughout your trip, or boiled water on treks. Lotussia Travel offers bottle water all the day, and soft drinks like Cola, Sprite or Vietnamese Tea or if possible juice in restaurants (if mentionned in itinerary). This is not automatically included in the packages. In simple restaurant or on camping, Lotussia Travel offers boiled water, instant coffee or juice, wrapped milk (Details are confirmed in bottom of your itinerary).

Transportation

In most destinations of Vietnam, all the roads are well paved though the traffic is quite messed up like in Hanoi, Hai Phong… We use proper vehicles, car, minibus or coach in good condition based on the size of the groups. We use 4WD only on the rough road where the other vehicles could not pass through or based on clients requirement on overland journeys or treks. For cycling itineraries, we usually use our support minibus or minibus with support truck. For sea kayaking, river rafting trips, diving packages we use standard boat as support. Detailed information is provided on our service proposal.

We use drivers who are native or local of each travel destination and maintain good safety records for all trips. Most of our drivers can speak English but a little bit. This is just enough to understand basic words such as “time of departure”, “stop”, “restaurants”, “hotels”…If you want to learn more about Vietnamese culture and information about sightseeing sites, booking a tour guide is highly recommended.

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