Day 1 / Fri: Ha Noi – Tuyen Quang – Ha Giang (L,D).

7:00am: You will be met up with Lotussia Travel team at your hotel in Hanoi (please advise us your hotel name upon your confirmation). Enjoy a full day road trip along national road 2 via Viet Tri Tuyen Quang to Ha Giang. Have some photo stops and short walk along the way to visit Tay Ethnic villages near by the road and enjoy beautiful scenery of lush palm forests, tea plantations and stunning valleys.

Lunch will be provided in a local restaurant in Tuyen Quang.

After lunch, we continue our drive towards Ha Giang. Arrive in Ha Giang town at about 04.00pm. Check into a local stilt house in a Tay village. If time permit, you have enough time for a short walk around the village. Dinner and overnight in the village.

Day 2 / Sat: Ha Giang – Bac Me – Ly Bon – Niem Son – Meo Vac – Dong Van (B,L,D).

After breakfast, we will leave Ha Giang following the national road 34 for 3 hours through the lush region enjoy which is a combination of prosperous vallleys, high mountains covered by thick forest. Enjoy several photo stops and an hour walking through a beautiful valley, paying visiting to houses of the Tay ethnic people.

Lunch break in along the way.

In the afternoon, we continue our raod trip along the mighty Gam river for 2 hours. This area offers different scenery including walled-up cliffs of karst rocks, narrow passages before turning left at Ly Bon and traveling the through the remotest land of Ha Giang Province. A stop will be made en route for you to visit an isolated hamlet of the H’mong. Arrive in Meo Vac at about 3.00pm, take a short rest before enjoying the most spectacualar landscapes of northern Vietnam: The Ma Pi Leng pass, famous for its magnificence with several stops for marvelous scenery. Pay visiting to a small village of the Hmong peoples near the top of the pass where cultivated land and fresh water shows its highest value. Arriving in Dong Van in late afternoon, check in hotel and take a leisure walk to explore the charming town for the rest of the day.

Day 3 / Sun: Dong Van – Lung Cu – Vuong Palace – Pho Bang – Quan Ba (B,L,D).

After breakfast, we will spend about 2 hours discovering the local ethnic peoples at Dong Van market before leaving for Lung Cu.

Leaving Dong Van, drive 26km to Lung Cu commune located on the northernmost tip of Dong Van highland and Vietnam as well. Pay visiting to a beautiful village of the Red Lolo – A very small ethnic group with only nearly 10 thousands individuals.

Leaving Lung Cu for an hour drive to Xa Phin valley to pay visiting to the famous palace of the Vuong family. Then continue along road 4C which winds its way amongst wallled-up mountains, through the stunning Sung La valley and onto the ancient town let of Pho Bang, enjoy half an hour walking along old street featured with clay-walled houses roofed by Yin and Yang tiles. Lunch break here.

In the afternoon, continue our trip driving downhill to Yen Minh and Quan Ba which are highlighted with breathtaking landscapes as well as visiting to a village of the Zao Ao Dai(Zao with long dress) in Nam Dam valley.

Arriving in Tam Son town of Quan Ba district in late afternoon. Check into a local stilt house for dinner and overnight (homestay).

Day 4 / Mon: Quan Ba – Ha Giang – Ha Noi (B,L).

Leaving Tam Son town and drive uphill to the Quan Ba Heaven Gate which is famous for the great view of the Tam Son valley with the “Twin Hills ”. Take a short walk to visit small hamlet of the Bo Y tribal people here before continuing going downhill along the road 4C to Ha Giang and from here follow national road 2 to Hanoi.

Lunch en route.
 
Arriving back to Hanoi in late afternoon, about 5.00 to 6.00pm, trip end with drop off at hotel in Hanoi.

Lotussia Travel only provides private customized tours since we understand that every travel experience should be as unique and individual as each traveler.  This tour itinerary is only one sample we try to customize for your information.

This tour departure can be flexible; the tour details can be further customized and adjusted subject to weather conditions and other circumstances. Our travel experts are waiting to hear from you so that we can custom design a Vietnam tour to your individual specifications.

The tour rates change depending on the number/quality of the services that are added on the tour. Most of our first proposal has been designed based on the medium services such as three-star hotels, middle-range restaurants, eco class air tickets, standard train, standard cruises…Please read throughout our proposal and let us know if our proposed itinerary and services respond to your needs.

Here are some sample services we may include by default on this tour:

• Transfer by private A/C vehicle with driver from day 1 to day 4.
• Private English-Speaking tour guide from day 1 to day 4.
• Accommodation on twin share in standard hotels or homestay. Please see our choices at the selected hotel portion for more details.
• Meals as mentioned on (“B” = Breakfast; “L” = Lunch; “D” = Dinner).
• Sightseeing entrance fees and permits where necessary.

The following services may not be added on the tour and can be also provided upon request. If the below services are provided by Lotussia Travel, they are not included on the land tour; they are quoted separately:

• International, domerstic air tickets and airport departure tax.
• Vietnam visa stamping fees.
• Hotel accommodation in Hanoi.
• Travel Insurance. We highly recommend purchasing travel insurance from home.
• Beverage and alcoholic drinks.
• Tips.
• Personal expenditure such as telephone, laundry, shopping and any other services not clearly mentioned on.

Discounts:

We are offering returning customers a huge discount on any packaged tour they book with us (except air and train tickets reservations). We offer this discount as a simple way to thank them for using our service. Recommend our agency to your friends, colleagues, and they will have the opportunity to save.

As a valued Lotussia Travel Customer, you are entitled to the following discount related to our products:

• One-day, overnight and three-day packaged tours: 3%
• Five-day and longer tours: 5%
• Train or air tickets reservations: no service fee.

Simply email your travel consultant about the tour that you want to book along with your contact information, our travel consultant will make sure that you'll be given discounts on your next bookings.

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• Low travel seasons (June – September)
• Launch of new tour.

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