Hagiang Province, Vietnam Motorcycle Exploring One Of The Best Rides

HANOI - HA GIANG - QUAN BA - ME VAC - DONG VAN - YEN MINH - HOANG SU PHI - BAC HA - LUC YEN - VU LINH (10 days, 9 nights)

Booking code: OV49

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Ha Giang motorcycle excursion

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Ride at a glance:

Day 1: Hanoi - Vu Linh.
Day 2: Vu Linh - Ha Giang.
Day 3: Ha Giang - Quan Ba.
Day 4: Quan Ba - Yen Minh - Meo Vac.
Day 5: Meo Vac - Dong Van.
Day 6: Dong Van - Yen Minh - Quan Ba.
Day 7: Quan Ba - Ha Giang - Hoang Su Phi.
Ha Giang motorcycle exploring

Day 8: Hoang Su Phi - Xin Man - Bac Ha.
Day 9: Bac Ha - Song Thao.
Day 10: Song Thao - Hanoi.

When you arrive in Ha Giang, if the weather is good and there is no rain, you are able to do an optional ride for the second half of the trip, extending to Northeast Vietnam on Highway 4 and we need 11 days in total. This ride includes some extra dirt biking and only suitable for experienced bikers:

Day 3: Ha Giang - Quan Ba.
Day 4: Quan Ba - Yen Minh - Meo Vac.
Day 5: Meo Vac - Dong Van.
Day 6: Dong Van - Nguyen Binh.
Day 7: Nguyen Binh - Ba Be.
Day 8: Ba Be - Quang Hoa.
Day 9: Quang Hoa - That Khe.
Day 10: That Khe - Lang Son.
Day 11: Lang Son - Hanoi.

This program is flexible, the following are just a sample, we will customize to suit your riding skills and to meet your expectations.

Ha Giang after maize (popcorn) collection. Motorcycling Ha Giang

Ha Giang after maize (popcorn) collection. Motorcycling Ha Giang

Day 1: Hanoi - Vu Linh (~180 km, ~7 h). L, D

Before the ride, it takes 30 minutes to double check the bikes and insure that we have all necessary tools and equipment to guarantee maximum fun. Then another 30 minutes for finalizing paperwork and riding gear. Easy ride to on the sealed road to Thac Ba Lake and follow the little road and track to Vu Linh. Vu Linh is a Dzao village by the side of the lake, very friendly people and the welcome is exceptional. Superb work of wood! The houses are superb. In addition, the exceptional greeting and local rice from the hosts are surely the highlights of the night.

Day 2: Vu Linh - Ha Giang (~170 km, ~6 h). B, L, D

After breakfast, ride to Yen The in about 2 hours around the lake on small road lined by palm trees and scenic mountain views. Then sealed road all the way to Ha Giang, where we stop for the night.

Day 3: Ha Giang - Quan Ba (~50 km, ~2h). B, L, D

Ha Giang Motorcycle Tours, Ha Giang Motorbike Tours

Ha Giang Motorcycle Tours, Ha Giang Motorbike Tours

We need the whole morning for getting the permit to ride in border areas. Short ride but this one will set the tone for the next few days. The challenge begins as soon as we leave Ha Giang town and enter the land of colorful mountain hill-tribes and stunning mountain landscapes. Karsts rise straight up perpendicular to the valley bellow and hill-tribe people will be smiling and waving you as you pass by.

One of the highlights is the Heaven's Gate pass before we arrive in Quan Ba for overnighting.

Day 4: Quan Ba - Yen Minh - Meo Vac (~100 km, ~3h). B, L, D

Some of the most beautiful landscapes of the entire trip. Get your camera(s) ready! This triangular is one of the most scenic places in North Vietnam. You can have your own words about the landscape, no more comments!

Ha Giang Motorcycle Vacation, Ha Giang Motorbike expedition

Ha Giang Motorcycle Vacation, Ha Giang Motorbike expedition

We will meet the ethnic minorities when visiting traditional homes. After lunch in Yen Minh, we wind our way up a nearby pass and then descending into the Meo Vac valley, very close to the Chinese border, for dinner and overnighting.

Day 5: Meo Vac - Dong Van (~60 km, ~2h). B, L, D

Head up the Ma Pi Leng Pass. Here is yet another amazing place, with cloudy mountain ranges and the poetic Nho Que river winding off in the distance. Ride on a zig-zag track until Dong Van, a remote area and meet the hard working local people here. 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.

To be honest, Dong Van week-end market on Sunday is truly the best you can find in whole North Vietnam. Our customers even prefer it to the nearby Khau Vai love market which they hold once in a year on lunar March 26^th. As the love market became more messy and touristy, we have stopped organizing this event tour unless our customers request a private tour.

Ha Giang Motorcycle Adventure

Day 6: Dong Van - Yen Minh - Quan Ba (~110 km, ~3h). B, L, D

We ride back! No road to continue from Dong Van down. We ride slowly from Dong Van to Quan Ba. Stop at the infamous Vuong Palace, where a Hmong family of high rank backed up by the French government. This palace attracts keen interest from architecturally minded visitors due to it's mixed style of European and Chinese architecture. We then hop back on the bikes and back to Quan Ba for our night.

Day 7: Quan Ba - Ha Giang - Hoang Su Phi (~130 km, ~4h). B, L, D

Ride back to Ha Giang, then Bac Quang. The ride is a pleasant one with countless meandering turns and winding sections on our way to Hoang Su Phi. This is your own trip and we encourage you to stop as many times as you wish to meet local people or to take those "once in a lifetime photographs".

Ha Giang motorcycle holiday, motorbike voyage

Ha Giang motorcycle holiday, motorbike voyage

Day 8: Hoang Su Phi - Xin Man - Bac Ha (~150 km, ~5h). B, L, D

Real challenging ride on tortuous roadways. More picturesque Vietnam countryside and landscapes, as well as meeting and talking with local ethnic families.

The second half of this drive is much easier but be warned not to ride ahead of our guide as you are likely to get lost in the dense forest. Arrive in the town of Bac Ha, dinner and sleep in town.

Day 9: Bac Ha - Song Thao (~230 km, ~7h). B, L, D

Long stage but on easy road. Beautiful landscape. Valley of wax-tree, native land of lacquer makers in Vietnam.

Song Thao is a very small village lost in the hills on west bank of Black river. The particular thing is that this is the place where we grow lacquer trees to collect the precious substance called lacquer.

Ha Giang motorcycle expedition

We are welcome in the house of our friends. You meet Kinh (ethnic Vietnamese). We propose to stay in the house of the two "uncles", direct descendant of the ancestor who discovered the property of this tree and the way to use it, about four hundreds years ago (quite recently compared to China who knew about lacquer few thousands years ago).

Day 10: Song Thao - Hanoi (~150 km, ~6h). B, L

Ride back to Hanoi via Son Tay in 5 hours. There is a possibility to ride along Red River. We estimate that you will arrive in Hanoi early in the afternoon, before the rush hour.

B: Breakfast.
L: Lunch.
D: Dinner.

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