HA GIANG TREKKING TOURS

Ha Giang is a province in the far north of Vietnam, contains the country's northernmost point. It shares a 270 km long border with Yunnan province of southern China. The province covers an area of almost 8000 square kilometers. It has a population of about 730,000 people, most of them are hill tribe with various languages, costumes, life style, customs and practices. Owning beautiful landscape, diversity terrains, Ha Giang is an ideal place for adventure, eco-tourism. Tuan Linh Travel is one of the first travel companies explored and develop a community-based network in the area. We can tailor-made all the tours in this area to meet travelers' demand or connect to any other tour in North Vietnam. Just send us your request to mail@tuanlinhtravel.com

See images of services provided in our tours in Ha Giang province:

Eco-lodge  |  Homestay  |  The hosts  |  Meals  |  Guide & porters  |  Trekking routes

Hill tribes | Local life | Landscape | Market days | Ha Giang map | North Vietnam map

 

Eco-lodge

In our tours, you can select to stay in eco-resort, hotels or experience homestay with local hill tribes.

Panhou Resort, on the side of Bac River

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homestay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facilities with homestay service:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In most of the houses, toilet and bathroom are adapted to travelers' needs. But in some cases, you may expect very basic facilities like pictures below:

Bathroom

 

Toilet

 

The host: Travelers will stay with peasants in their house

 

 

 

 

 

 

Embroidery is interesting work of women in free time. A set of clothes may takes 6 months for embroidery works only.

 

Water pipe with raw, home-made tobacco

 

A H'Mong women is weaving linen

 

A women is making fishing net

 

 

 

The host get on her best clothes to take photo with the guest.

 

Meals: On trekking tours we have 3 meals in a day, all the food are prepared by our guide, porters. They are trained with tourist standard thus meet travelers' taste.

- Breakfast is served with jam, bread, butter, milk, instant coffee.

- Lunch is served en route: rice/noodle, eggs, beef/pork, vegetable, fruit

- Dinner: we usually share the dinner with our host. Food is bought and served by our guide/porters

 

 

 

Our guide-cum-cook

 

 

Lunch is usually simple as the local guide cannot take much food during trekking.

 

 

Guides and porters in our tours:

- Foreign language tour guide will escorted you from Hanoi, (s)he will go with you from the beginning to the end of the tour.

- Local tour guide will help the tour with trekking route, preparing meals.

- Porter will carry your luggage with motorbikes from place to place. They also go to local market for daily food.

 

 

 

 

Trekking routes

We will trek on the path of local people, go through bamboo forest, paddy field, terrace farm, village, stream, ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes, especially in rainy season (May. to Nov.) landslide will hinder our trekking route

 

In some cases we have to pass stream with "bridge" like this

 

 

Meet hill tribe people

Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups with their own distinctive languages, costume, custom, habit, ... Most of them scatter in North and Center areas. In our tours you will have chance to meet them with their daily file, especially on market days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See local people in their daily life:

Since our tours are community-based, travelers will have chance to see local people in their daily life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farming and fishing tool are usually stored in kitchen. Smoke will help protect them from termite

 

Hand-stonemill

 

Forge for making farming tool. Dzao people are very good at forging tool

 

Sticky rice is store in bunch under kitchen roof.

 

Landscape in Ha Giang

Ha Giang is famous for rice terrace fields, Dong Van Rocky Plateau. With its primitive, unspoiled environment, diversified terrain: hill, mountain, breathtaking pass, Ha Giang is an ideal place for travelers to contemplate the beauty of nature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Market days in Ha Giang

It is a special day for hill tribe people, they bring every thing to the market, from a bunch of vegetable to a buffalo. Market is not only for trading purpose but it is a small festive event as people live scattered and the needs of communicating only be satisfied in crowded market days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chili is the most popular spice in high land area

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buffalo, cow market

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ha Giang map

 

North Vietnam map

Ha Giang market tours, Ha Giang hill-tribe tours, Dong Van Rocky Plateau tour, Ha Giang homestay tours, Ha Giang community based tourism, we are proud of having comprehensive knowledge about Ha Giang, good relation with local community as well as authorities. Thus we can help with any request about travel needs in Ha Giang.

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