The trip was not planned in advance but decided in just 15 minutes in the morning. Through Facebook, Ms. Lam Linh, author of two books "Yem Dao du ky" and "Gai Phuot" received the news that a friend had a car and was looking for someone to go on the trip with for a few days. After just a few messages, the trip was "finalized" at exactly 13:30 in the afternoon. The trip lasted nearly a week with an unexpected cost of about 3 million VND.
Vehicle:Private car, stopping and resting while driving
Number:2 adults, 1 child
Time: 6 days
Expense:
Gasoline split in half: 1 million VND
5 nights hotel room: 2 nights at hotel, 3 nights at Lo Lo stilt house – 800 thousand VND
Motorbike rental and gas: 200,000 VND
Eating and shopping: 1 million VND
Specific schedule:
Day 1
13:30, drive Hanoi - Ha Giang 300 km, arrive in Ha Giang at 9 pm, stop a few times along the way for Bap to rest.
Sleep in Ha Giang tonight. Eat at Tay restaurant with delicious meat.
Day 2
Ha Giang - Quan Ba, spend time playing at Quan Ba Heaven Gate. The weather is sunny and pleasant.
At noon, we stopped by Nam Dam cultural and tourist village in Quan Ba to rest and have lunch. The cultural village is very beautiful with clean stilt houses. We had lunch and played comfortably all afternoon, which was very enjoyable. Lunch was super delicious, with many dishes and cheap. Since the vegetable season was good, the car also carried beets and water chestnuts.
From Quan Ba to Meo Vac, it was late afternoon so I went straight. Bought some delicious crispy persimmons.
Stay overnight at Lo Lo stilt house in Meo Vac. Have dinner here with BBQ.
Day 3
Wake up in the morning, walk to have breakfast - banh cuon canh.
Rented a motorbike, mother and son went out. The weather was beautiful and sunny. Cost including motorbike: 150,000 VND, plus 50,000 VND for gas for a day. Went down the road to Son Vy, down to the hydroelectric plant under Nho Que river, took pictures of the buckwheat fields freely because there were no tourists down there. Let Bap play in the village for a while then crossed Ma Phi Leng pass to the other side of Dong Van. Had lunch, coffee, wandered around the old house, Bap took a nap, returned to Meo Vac when it was dark. After bathing, went to the night market to watch music, had dinner and went back to sleep.
Day 4
Woke up, had breakfast, then rode my motorbike to return it and went to Meo Vac market right next door. It was drizzling. Had lunch at a chicken restaurant near the market. Back at the stilt house, it was almost 3pm, let Bap take a nap. In the evening, took a shower and went to eat delicious chicken hotpot at a friend's house, met friends.
Day 5
Breakfast. The weather continued to be pleasant. Mild sunshine, blue sky, cool breeze. Went to Lung Phin market, bought a bunch of things like mac khen, doi, green chili...
Had lunch with fresh pho and roast pork right in the market. On the way to Vuong Palace, the scenery was so beautiful that we stopped many times.
Stop to play with the wild daisies blooming along the path, enter the village, visit the Mong people's houses along the way. Run and play in Sung La
Run to Pho Bang. Go straight to Ha Giang, buy a few more kilos of persimmons to bring back. Have dinner at 8pm in Ha Giang, a very delicious horse hotpot restaurant. Stay overnight in Ha Giang. Before going to bed, have another bowl of Au Tau porridge.
Day 6
Had sour pho for breakfast. Hit the road to Tuyen Quang.
Lunch in Son Duong, Tuyen Quang, Hanoi, Nhat Tan bridge at 4:30 pm. Arrived home at 5:30 pm. Lots of vegetables, persimmons, and all kinds of seeds.
End of 6-day trip
Buy lots of fresh vegetables and fruits from Ha Giang
Know how to keep your baby from getting road sickness, the hairpin bends in Ha Giang are the most difficult. Take breaks as you go, stop whenever you want.
The baby traveled for 3 consecutive days and had 3 days of rest and play so he wasn't too tired from the car trip.
