Vietnam Motorbike Tour to Ha Giang – 5 Days

Day 1: Hanoi Motorbike Tour to Ba Be lake – 240 km.

This Vietnam motorcycle tour to Ha Giang starts at around 8 AM from eastern suburbs of Hanoi. We try the best to avoid busy city road in the morning until Cho Chu town( in Thai Nguyen province) where we have lunch. After lunch, we surely have enjoyable motorbike ride to Ba Be lake because the roads have less traffic and offer you a lot of grand mountain view. At about 4 PM, we arrive Pac Ngoi – a beautiful village of Tay people which located peacefully at Ba Be lake’s side. Diner and stay with the Tay’s family.
Overnight in Ba Be lake – home stay.

Ba Bể Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Ba Bể; Ba means Three, Bể is from the Tay language word pé, meaning “lake”) is the largest natural lake in Vietnam. It is located in Nam Mẫu commune, Bắc Kạn district, Bắc Kạn Province in the northeastern region of the country.
Having been formed approximately 200 million years ago, the lake is surrounded by limestone cliffs, which in turn are covered by primary forests. The lake comprises three zones named Pé Lầm, Pé Lù, and Pé Lèng. Three rivers, named Năng, Tả Han, and Nam Cường, are the main inflows of the lake. The Năng river enters the lake through a large waterfall called Đầu Đẳng. In the lake there are also three islands, named Án Mã, Khẩu Cúm, and Po Gia Mải (literally “Widow’s Island”).
Ba Bể Lake is a featured geographical science and is a biodiversity reservoir. It is a part of the Ba Be National Park.

Day 2: Babe lake – Bao Lac. – 120 km.

After the early breakfast with the family, Take a short walk about 1km to the pier and then enjoy one and a half hour boat cruise around the largest natural lake in Vietnam – Ba Be. Lunch with the Tay family, In the after noon we will have  off-road motorbike tour in Vietnam. We will ride the bikes through a small part of Ba Be National Park, many beautiful villages and some streams, the tour will give you a lot of challenge and amazing beauty of mountain area in northern Vietnam.

Arrive Bao Lac at 5 PM. Stay in town – Hotel.

Day 3: Motorbike Tour To The Dong Van Global Geo-park  from Bao Lac. – 140 km.

Today, we will have relaxing, easy and very enjoyable motorbike tour to Dong Van . Start the day at about 9 Am, ride slowly along the Gam river to enjoy the green mountains and mountains. We will be in Meo Vac for lunch. After lunch, it could be the best motorbike tour in Vietnam to ride cross Ma-Pi-Leng pass ( It’s one of the longest and most beautiful passes in North Vietnam. We can have hundreds of stops for picture of The Dong Van Rock Plateau Global Geo-park, and the local ethnic minorities.

Stay overnight in Dong Van town – Hotel.

Day 4: Dong Van – Ha Giang. – 150 km.

This motorbike tour to Ha Giang goes through the poorest part of Vietnam but the scenery is most imposing where you will be surprise to see many ethnic groups with their unique cultures and amazing mountain view of the Rock Plateau, the Vuong palace in Dong Van, The “Heaven Gate” in Quan Ba. This motorbike ride to Ha Giang is surely the highlight of the trip and this short ride today is worthy enough to make this short tour become one of the best Vietnam motorbike tours . We will have a lot of stops for pictures of majestic nature and visits to local H’mong’s villages.  Arrive Ha Giang city in the late afternoon.

Dinner and stay with the other Tay’s family.

Day 5: Finish the Vietnam Motorbike Tour to Ha Giang in Lao Cai Train Station. – 180 km.

After breakfast with family, we have smooth motorbike ride on road No 2 for a bout 40 km, and then we will take a turn to a small road to Pho Rang – the road is small and somewhere bumpy but scenery is completely different from what you saw in days before. The scenery is the wonderful mixture of green mountain, rice fields and graceful villages of the ethnic people. Lunch is in Pho Rang and after lunch we have easy Northeast Vietnam motorcycle tours to Lao Cai on the winding road with the different view from what we’ve seen. Before getting into town center we will have short visit to China and Vietnam border, then motorcycle straight to the Lao Cai Railway Station and put all the bikes on the train. Finish the Vietnam motorcycle tour Ha Giang and take a night train back to Hanoi after dinner in Lao Cai. The train will arrive Hanoi in the early morning in the next day, the guide team of Vietnam Motorbike Tour Expert will take a taxi for you back to your hotel in the city. Tour ends.