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Out ofHà Nội
What’s actually there, when to go, how many days each trip really needs, and the tours we book at our desk. Dates and prices: ask our staff.
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One day: a Ninh Bình day trip by rowing boat and bike, or a day cruise on Hạ Long or Lan Hạ Bay. Back in Hà Nội by evening.
Two days: a night on a Hạ Long or Lan Hạ cruise, a Sa Pa trek with a homestay, or Bản Giốc with night buses both ways.
Three days: the 3-day Hà Giang loop, Sa Pa without rushing, or Cao Bằng and Bản Giốc waterfall.
Four days or more: the full Hà Giang loop with Du Già, the trip guests still talk about years later. Or Cao Bằng with a night at Ba Bể lake.
Hà Giang loop
About 350 km of mountain road across the Đồng Văn karst plateau, right up against the Chinese border. You ride on the back of a bike with a local easy rider while grey limestone peaks crowd the road, corn grows in pockets of soil between the rocks and H’Mông kids wave from doorways. Then the road drops away into the Nho Quế canyon. Nights are homestay dinners with your riders and the group, usually with a round of corn wine.
+1 free night back in Hà Nội
Sa Pa
A mountain town at about 1,500 m, high above the Mường Hoa valley. Rice terraces step down every slope and Fansipan, the highest peak in Indochina, disappears into the clouds overhead. You come here to walk: village to village through terraces and bamboo, past buffalo in the paddies and H’Mông and Red Dao women in indigo. The town is busy. The valley below it is the point.
Hạ Long Bay
Close to two thousand limestone islands rising straight out of green water, and the photos don’t do it justice. The day boats head back to port in the afternoon. Stay out overnight and you get what comes after: kayaking between the islands at sunset, a quiet deck, and mist on the water when you wake up. Lan Hạ Bay, next door, has the same scenery with fewer boats and small beaches.
Ninh Bình
“Hạ Long Bay on land”: limestone towers standing in rice paddies instead of the sea. Rowers take you down slow rivers, under cave roofs low enough to duck and past temples you can only reach by water. On land it’s flat and perfect for bikes, past lotus ponds and paddies to the foot of Hang Múa and its 500 steps.
Cao Bằng
Green where Hà Giang is grey: jade rivers, rolling karst hills, Tày and Nùng villages and far fewer tourists. The star is Bản Giốc, a waterfall that drops in tiers across the whole width of a border river, with bamboo rafts that take you close enough to feel the spray. Around it: caves, mountain passes, and a mountain with a hole straight through it.