Nguyen Hai Duc is the founder of Ha Giang Ali Travel, a licensed international tour operator based in Ha Giang, northern Vietnam (International Travel Business Licence No. 08-0007/2025/CDLQGVN-GP LHQT). He runs the Ha Giang Loop tours, Ali Hostel and the local Easy Rider team, and writes these guides from the roads he rides.
The Ha Giang buckwheat flowers bloom from October to December 2026, peaking in early November across the Dong Van Karst Plateau. This year the bloom is anchored by the 12th Buckwheat Flower Festival, themed “Echoes of the Stone Plateau” (Âm vang miền đá). If you are timing a trip around the pink-and-white fields, here is […]
If you are riding the Ha Giang Loop in September, the Tuyen Quang Festival is the one event worth planning your trip around. Held from 19–25 September 2026 in Tuyen Quang city, the Tuyen Quang Festival — officially the Thanh Tuyen Festival (Lê hội Thành Tuyên) — is recognised as the largest Mid-Autumn celebration in […]
The Dong Van night market is the weekend evening gathering in the old stone square of Dong Van Old Town, deep in the Ha Giang highlands. On Saturday nights and around the full moon, the square fills with H’Mong pan-pipe music, food stalls, corn wine and hundreds of people — locals and travellers side by […]
Ha Giang ecotourism is quietly opening a new chapter on the banks of the Song Mien River. In the tiny hamlet of Thang Neng – just nine Tay families in Thuan Hoa commune, a short ride north of Ha Giang City – you can paddle a bamboo raft across emerald water, soak in a natural […]
If you are planning a trip and suddenly see your route filed under “Tuyen Quang” instead of Ha Giang, you are not imagining things. On 1 July 2025, Ha Giang province was officially merged into Tuyen Quang province as part of Vietnam’s nationwide reorganisation from 63 provinces down to 34. The short version for travellers: […]
Thinking about riding the Ha Giang Loop in September? Here is the honest answer first: September is one of the best months of the whole year to ride. The heavy summer rains are fading, the rice terraces are turning gold, and the air finally cools down after the humid peak of August. The one thing […]
Is it safe to ride the Ha Giang Loop in the rainy season? The honest answer is yes – thousands of travellers ride safely through the Ha Giang rainy season every year – but only if you respect the weather, check the roads daily, and know when to wait an hour or a day. The […]
The Tay people are the largest of Vietnam’s 53 ethnic minorities and one of the friendliest cultures you will meet on the Ha Giang Loop. They live in the green valleys of the far north, sleep in wooden stilt houses, dress in plain indigo, and keep some of Vietnam’s most beautiful wedding customs alive. This […]
A Hoang Su Phi homestay is a family-run guesthouse tucked into the terraced-rice-field highlands of western Ha Giang (now part of Tuyen Quang province), where you sleep in a traditional Dao, Tay or Mong home, eat what the family cooks, and wake up to some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in Vietnam. If the […]
Na Hang Lake is a vast emerald reservoir ringed by 99 limestone peaks in the far north of Vietnam — often called the “Ha Long Bay on land.” Since the 2025 provincial merger, Na Hang Lake sits in the same province as the Ha Giang Loop, which makes it the easiest, most rewarding add-on to […]
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