Ha Giang Vietnam Trekking Tour 5 Days from Hanoi

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Ha Giang Loop Trekking – 5 Day Tour is another moderate trekking package we arrange in the less visited Ha Giang, Hoang Su Phi. Trekking for about 16 – 20K through H’mong, Dzao, Tay, Nung villages; Stay at local home; You have the chance experience parts of local life by adjoining locals’ everyday activities seasonally such as rice or corn harvesting, plow and harrow the fields or transplanting rice on terraced fields…

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Day-To-Day Itinerary

Night 1: Hanoi – Tan Quang, Ha Giang.

On the first day of this Ha Giang Loop Trekking we will take the overnight bus from Hanoi to Tan Quang, Ha Giang.

Day 1: Tan Quang – Tan Lap, Ha Giang.

Upon arrival to Tan Quang commune at about 5.00 AM, check in our base here and rest until 8.00 AM. Breakfast will be served at 8.15. Trekking Ha Giang starts at 9.00 AM. Follow the large village path from our base to walk for an hour through the flat valley of Tan Quang, witnessing locals doing their daily works in villages of the Tay ethnic. Then the path winds up and down mountains and hills the hillsides, through palm forest, tea farms and terraced fields, two hours to a small village of the Black Zao hidden among high mountain and lush rain forest. Explore this village, visit local homes before lunch break. Continue after lunch along a dirt track sneaking on hide mountain side, up and down hills, passing by several small hamlets of the Hmong and Zao peoples in Tan Lap Commune, drop in some homes for meeting locals, talking to them for learning fact of life. Arrive to home stay at about 5.00 PM, check in and rest. Dinner served at 7.00 PM with home cooked food.

Day 2: Tan Lap – Thong Nguyen.

Leaving our home-stay after breakfast and follow the narrow trail winding through hamlets of the Hmong and Zao ethnics, we meet peoples doing their everyday works along the way. Some may invite to their homes nearby and hosted us a kind of green tea named Shan Tuyet, the famous local product. And then the trail leads through some timber plantations to a small hamlet of the Hmong after two hours, paying visit to several homes, meeting Hmong peoples for a unique discover of culture and living way of this famous hill-tribal peoples before lunch break. The trek in the afterwards becomes tougher as the trail winds its way up the steep mountain side for the whole afternoon to the top of the pass named by local HEAVEN GATE. This portion offers marvelous scenery of green and lush forest, walled-up limestone cliffs and impressive terraced fields. Check in home stay in late afternoon, freshen up and free walk around to enjoy beauty of nature, then comes dinner. Home stay overnight in a local home near the Heaven Gate.

Day 3: Thong Nguyen – Hoang Su Phi.

Breakfast and leave home-stay at 08.30. Spend six hours today to explore the famous valley named Nam Ty, a part of the national heritage site. From home-stay, trekking along the narrow dirt trail down steep mountain side for 2 hours to the bottom of the valley, enjoy great panorama of the whole region. Then walk along the stream which flows between two high mountain ranges, passing through the terraced rice fields which brings to the lenses probably the most impressive scenery of perfect nature setting so far. Meet local hill-tribal peoples living in small villages scattering around the bottom of the valley before lunch break. Continue trekking in the afternoon along the stream, up and down hill to get through Thong Nguyen Valley, passing by villages of the Tay and Red Zao, meet locals doing their everyday works. Arrive to the center of Thong Nguyen commune at about 5.00 PM, check in local guesthouse, freshen up and relax or walk around to see life. Dinner served at 7.00 PM. O/N in local guesthouse.

Day 4: Hoang Su Phi – Xin Man.

Breakfast and start the day with an hour easy walk along smooth path get to Giang Village of the Tay who live in spacious wooden stilt houses. Then turn to a narrow dirt trail uphill 2 hours to a small hamlet of the Black Zao which is beautifully set on a hill-top and overlooking down both Thong Nguyen and Nam Ty Valleys. Enjoy great panorama and explore the village before picnic lunch break. Continue trekking along the same trail downhill for an hour and then uphill again, passing through some tea farms and beautiful terraced rice fields to Tan Minh Village. Here, pay visiting to a family tea processing workshop to see peoples making famous green tea known as SHAN TUYET. Arrive to home stay at about 5.00 PM, freshen up and free to explore the charming village of the Black Zao. Dinner and O/N in a house of a Black Zao family.

Day 5: Xin Man – Hanoi.

It is the last day and the easiest day of the trip. Breakfast and say goodbye to the Black Zao in Tan Minh. Enjoy 3 hours walking along a large village path which runs along a beautiful stream to get through Le Hong Phong Village, home to the Tay ethnic who live in spacious houses on stilt. Lunch break in the open by the water of the stream. Cross the stream by suspension bridge after lunch and hike uphill for an hour to Sin Chai, a village of the Red Zao beautifully set on the high elevation and overlooking down to Nam Dich Valley. Pay visiting to the village, meet the Red Zao people who are doing their daily works at home or on the fields. Leave Sin Chai for another hour hike mostly downhill to Nam Dich Junction. Picked up at about 4.00 PM for nearly hour road transfer to our base in Tan Quang. Take shower, have dinner and rest. Boarding the bus at 10.00 pm for overnight road transfer to Ha Noi. Arriving to the Old Quarter of Ha Noi at about 6.00 am the next morning. Ha Giang Loop Trekking 5 Day Itinerary is completed.

Ha Giang private 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 Loop Trekking – 5 Day 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

Adventure level	Moderate
Availability	Upon Request
Travel destination	Ha Giang
Depart from	Hanoi
End at	Hanoi
Primary activity	Ethnic Culture, Homestay, Off-The-Beaten Track
Trip duration	5 days
Tour type	Private tour

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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