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Our local share of top 8 things to do in Ha Giang province - Ha Giang Travel Guide
Ha Giang is a far-north province of Vietnam with untouched natural landscapes of rocky mountains,deep valleys & stunning rice terraces; a must-visited & off-the-beaten path destination for adventure & nature lovers.Together with the scenery’s magnificence, traveller can learn about the rich culture & the lifestyle of local ethnics living in this highland of Vietnam. As a local tourguide & tour operator, we have visited less-known Ha Giang many times and with our love to this land, we would like to share about top 8 things to do in Ha Giang that you can get a good reference to explore Ha Giang beauty in your coming trips to Ha Giang.
1.Impressive view of Dong Van Limestone Pleataux.
Ha Giang is the land of mountainous & hilly topography, especially the up-northern districts of this province including Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Meo Vac & Dong Van – the stretching length of Dong Van Limestone Pleataux creating the main majestic scenery with towering mountains & immense valleys in the region.This pleataux is known as one of the unique limestone regions in Vietnam, carrying the clear imprints of the evolution of the earth’s crust.There are 80% limestone formations at Dong Van Plateau, which are created from different evolution stages of nature and environmental conditions through millions of years.Thanks to this geological values, Dong Van Rocky Pleataux was recognized as the Global Geopark by UNESCO on 3rd October 2010 and has become a top tourist attraction in Vietnam.
Rocky Mountains in Dong Van Pleataux
2.Enjoy the beauty of flowers : buckwheat, plum, daisy, kale flowers…in different time of year
Plan your trip to Ha Giang, if you would like to enjoy the fragrance & the beautiful colors of different kinds of flowers, you must choose the right time to visit. Elsewhere are coloured with mosiac of beautiful flowers in certain periods, which make Ha Giang’s landscapes miraculously.
For the best moment of pink buckwheat flower, you should visit Ha Giang between the end of October & the beginning of November each year..Taking photos on the fields of buckwheat flower is actually a memorable experience when visiting Ha Giang. Why is this one of the thing to do in Ha Giang? Because,the buckwheat flower is considered to be the symbolic one in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam and Ha Giang is the best place for buckwheat flowers.
Morover, you can experience Ha Giang beauty on March – the spring time in full of life with many types of flowers blooming such as pure white plum flower, wild peach flower in a cool & fresh climate. How romantic & lovely to visit Ha Giang with your lovers in this time of year.
For the beautifully yellow colour of valleys or foothills in Ha Giang, your trip to Ha Giang should be on December – the time of golden or yellow kale flowers blooming everywhere.
Kale flower in December
3.Reach the northernmost point of Vietnam – Lung Cu flag tower
As the starting point of Vietnam, journey to Lung Cu flag tower offers you very scenic landscapes on both sides of the road – beautiful mountain backgrounds & local traditional villages of H'Mong, Lo Lo, Tay, Hoa..... that you can stop for a visit.Reach Lung Cu flag tower, and walk up to its top points of 1700 metter high, you can extend your view to the horizon of local villages, their standing-out rice terraces, China side & stunning mountains near & far. For Vietnamese, reaching this point of the country – an emblem of Vietnam’s territorial sovereigty, one will feel its sacredness and one’s love to the country.
Lung Cu flag tower
4.Pay a visit to Vuong Family’s House
Built in 1914, Vuong mansion is a special building of old & beautiful architecture for the king of H'Mong – Vuong Chi Sinh & his family.It was constructed by Chinese engineers & skilful local H'Mong workers at that time so the architecture of this house is the harmonious combination of Chinese & H'Mong’s styles. A visit to Vuong’s house, you can understand about the life of H'Mong ( the rich & the poor) in the past – when the happiness road was not yet opened, and wonder how could they build such an awesome construction with such a big fortune !
Vuong's Mansion
5.Experience local lifestyle of ethnic groups.
There are 16 ethnics groups in Ha Giang with their own lifestyle & cultures.They live scatteredly on the valley & on the slopes of mountains.Along with contemplating beautiful landscapes in Ha Giang, you can interact with different ethnic minority groups who are very friendly, well-preserved with cultures & colorful in their typical dresses.In your Ha Giang adventure, it will be more momorable to take part in treks to visit remote tribal villages, homestay in their houses, eat their home-cooked dishes or join them in local weekly markets, notably Dong Van market, Meo Vac maket ( every Sunday), Quyet Tien market in Quan Ba ( on Sarturday)…. or interesting Khau Vai love market (on 26th of lunar March ) – anthentic & romatic events to take part – another top things to do in Ha Giang.
Colorful markets in Ha Giang
6.Conquering Ma Pi Leng Pass – the king of all passess in Vietnam
This adventure is one of the top thing you have to do in your Ha Giang excursion.Without doing it, you,it is like something not complete in your Ha Giang trip.Ma Pi Leng Pass connects two remote frontier districts of Meo Vac & Dong Van, is the highest point of the “legendary happiness road”. Conquering this pass, you can understand how hard it was for local ethnic workers & volunteers to build up this part of “happiness road” without modern equipments, but by simple working tools of hammers & hoes, shovels…..and show your admiration to what they did before.A great sense of adventure you will have when zigzaging up & down along mountain slopes and be rewarded with the most breathtaking landscapes of magnificient mountains, deepest valleys and Nho Que river running between the cliffs. What a paradise on earth you may exclaim when standing on the top of this Ma Pi Leng Pass !
Winding Pass of Ma Pi Leng
7.Stop at Quan Ba Heaven Gate & viewing Quan Ba Twin Mountains or Fairy Mountains
After 45km from Ha Giang city, you drive up & up on winding Quan Ba Pass & reach Quan Ba Heaven Gate.Trekking to the top of Heaven Gate & having a panoramic view of surrounding regions : the highlighted one is Twin Mountains on the side of Tam Son town.It is an unique art of the nature with interesting fairy tales narrated by locals…..Please, read more in this article.
Fairy twin mountains
8.Enjoy beautiful rice terraces in Hoang Su Phi area.
Meanwhile Dong Van Geopark is famous for its breathtaking grey limestone mountains & zigzag winding passes, Hoang Su Phi make its fame for its stunning rice terraces – recognized as a National Heritage by the Ministry of Sports, Cultures & Tourism.For the most beautiful landscapes of rice terraces in Hoang Su Phi, you must visit this district between “May & June” – the time of falling water into the fields; and between September & October – the moment the rice gets ripe and makes its fullest beauty of golden colors to the horizon….. Stunning & impressive beauty for photo & scenery lovers.You can get reference with this travel experience at Hoang Su Phi adventure trek on non-touristic trails to contemplate those stunny rice terraces & authenic local villages.......
Rice terrace of Hoang Su Phi district
Ha Giang adventure with Golden Holiday Travel
We have just listed and shared about Ha Giang attractions and top 8 things to do in Ha Giang adventure.We hope that this helps you with good ideas to plan your real Ha Giang exploration in the future.You may need to know more about Ha Giang, or would like to get travel services of Ha Giang tour package, tourguide or having a private car transfer rent with driver from Hanoi to Ha Giang, feel free to email us to goldenholidaytravel.vn@gmail.com or call us at +84.988451530 (viber or whatsapps), our travel teams will reply you back with useful travel support, travel suggestion & the service’s detailed qoutation for your memorable journey in Ha Giang ! See you in Ha Giang, Vietnam
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Trip to Ha Giang promises many interesting travel experiences. You can join the organized tours by the local travel companies or do it on your own by hiring a private car with driver or renting a motorbike from Ha Giang. If doing the adventure by the motorbike on your own, this is the article you can get to know about the road terrains, our own experiences & related notes of doing that trip....
I hope you havent't forgot us. If you have I have included a photo of us in attach file.I promised to e-mail you when we get back. Sorry for the delay but we had so much shit to sort out when we've got back home.
Thanks very much for giving us a tour of Hanoi. Without you two, we would of missed a hell of a lot of Hanoi which we never had the time to explore.
When we were in the south, we came across a lot of English and Irish backpackers that were heading to Hanoi and we've recomended you and the taxi driver Binh to them. I hope they contact you two when they get to Hanoi and give you business.
So so much had changed since I left Vietnam. Some changes are positive and a lot of negatives but people link yourself and Binh will keep up the traditions.
I hope that you will get this e-mail. If you do please reply.
Since we've came home, I've had so many ideas about starting a business venture in Vietnam and and hoping that you might want to be be part of the it.
Alec (Hung)
Alec Hung & Challote from UK
Dear Ban,
Sorry for being late.
I tried to write you a letter several times, but I couldn't finish the letter. I don't know why.
I am still in winter vacation, so I have been very lazy, frankly speaking. And I miss you and the other good people I met in Vietnam. You cannot imagine how much it is!! As for our meeting, let's put it aside for my next trip, possibly that would be the coming August. At that time, we can have time to talk a lot about Vietnamese school system and other interesting things. Don't you think??
And I am so happy to know that you think my voice is tender in different songs... *^^*
By the way, how's it going with your new business? Is it going well? I'm sure you will be successful because you are quite ambitious and intelligent. You agree, Ban?? ^^
When my school starts, I cannot tell anything about Vietnam without talking about you to my students... I get impressed a lot, surely yu know that. Right?
I will attach the picture you took together in my next mail because my camera battery is out. Sorry about that!!
It's Saturday today. I wonder what you are doing at this moment in Vietnam when I am writing to you. Keep in touch often. OK?? ^^
Take care and be well & happy
Your friend,
Hwayoung Lee from Korea
Ms Hwayoung Lee from Korea
Hello Mr Ban, What a surprise to hear from you and a good one. yes I do remember you quite well....as Black Dan? Is this right? It has been 5 years since I was in your country. a long time, but I remember how bright and funny you were and also how polite!!! So, have you a family to look after now? A wife and some beautiful children? I hope all is well with you and you have plenty of work to do. I am taking a break at my work as it is Christmas time here and everything stops and family get together. I know you have TET around the corner and I wish you much success and good fortune for the next year. Which animal will it be next year for TET, I wonder? And which year you born in? I am still working with flowers. Iam known as a florist and my job keeps me pretty busy. I enjoy it very much as I love to make beautiful things from flowers and stones, dried things from Mother Nature and sometimes with man made stuff as well. It is quite funny that you emailed me at this time as I have been thinking of coming over to Vietnam alot lately and may do next year sometime. I missed out on a few places I would love to go ( Hoi Ann), and re visit some places I have been to last time. Are you still a guide? All the best.
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