Hà Giang Việt Nam

     

Location & History

Ha Giang is a mountainous province in the North of Vietnam in which the Vietnam-China border extends more than 274km long. The province is also the source of Lo River flowing into Vietnam, contiguous to china to the north with international border gate Thanh Thuy. Southern of Ha Giang is Tuyen Quang; eastern is Cao Bang & Lao Cai lớn the West. Ha Giang is about 320km khổng lồ the north of Hanoi, following Highway no. 2.

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Ha Giang is quite a new city with only 120 years of history. Going through a lot of difficulties in term of unfavorable location and low màn chơi of infrastructure, Ha Giang is transforming from an economically underdeveloped province into a tourism locale that attracts a lot of visitors in the last few years.

Like any other Northern highlands of Vietnam, the climate here is cool in the summer and extremely cold in the winter which ones may see snow. The temperature of Ha Giang ranges from 5 - 28 Celcius degree, which is pretty ideal for tourism.

Ha Giang’s Tourist Attractions

Like Sapa, the most renowned attraction of Ha Giang are the many grandiose mountains. Although mountains here are not as high as Sapa’s mountains & seem not lớn be steep enough to challenge adventurous climbers, they stand out for extensive area of limestone with chất lượng formation of peaky rocks.

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The most famous rocky area of Ha Giang is Dong Van Rock Plateau, which is recognized by UNESCO as one of 77 geological parks in the world. Lung Cu hamlet lying inside Dong Van Rock Plateau is another indispensible destination as it marks the very northern tip of Vietnam by Lung Cu Flag Tower on dragon Mountain.

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Not only that, Ha Giang is a venue of fanciful natural caves such as Phuong Thien Cave, Chui Cave, Fairy Cave và Swallow Cave. Although all the caves offer wonderful scenery with fantastic shapes of stalactites, each one has its own story & traits. For example, legend says that fairies used khổng lồ bath in Fairy Stream inside Fairy Cave which is the source of its name.

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Ha Giang is also well-known for its magnificent forests in which there are more than 1,000 species of good woods, drug trees as well rare animals like tigers, peacock or pangolin.

Ha Giang's unique Culture

This mountainous province’s residents consist mainly of ethnic minorities with a major of Hmong, Tày, Yao & Nùng ethnic groups. Thanks khổng lồ this ethnical diversity, nowhere can one see more fusing traditions than Ha Giang. Each of the ethnic group has its quality custom in term of wedding, worship, festivals or funeral. Lớn illustrate, a Hmong groom can only get married only if he can rob his wife but no one know about his action to be successful pass the trial.

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In Ha Giang, for tourist khổng lồ see the most quality custom of the ethnic minorities, it is recommended to take a trekking tour or travel by motorbikes because there are many ethnic hamlets living separately from the mainstream society. Coming to lớn these tribes, ones may see charms on their doors to lớn expel demons và evil spirits. The locals are also very friendly who welcome strangers like honored guests and may treat you their special dish: Thang teo (horse meat hot-pot).

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A chất lượng spot only be seen in Ha Giang is “Khau Vai Love Market”. The market-day is held monthly only on the 26th and 27th of a Lunar Year. In there, both single & married people in different ethnic groups can come to lớn find ones’ ideal life-partner and sharing their feeling and understanding to each other. Lunar New Year seem to be the best time to visit Ha Giang when ones can see a wide variety of traditional customs of ethnic minorities here, such as celebrating success, rain ritual, sons ritual, crossbow shooting competition, pan-pie performance or “Còn” Throwing competition.

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How lớn Get There

Because Ha Giang’s infrastructure is still on its way of improvement, ones can only reach this destination by car or motorbikes along the High Way No. 2 to the north of Hanoi, through 3 provinces: Vinh Phuc, Phu Tho và Tuyen Quang. It’s excellent if one has a private oto or if not, you can go khổng lồ some coach station in Hanoi lượt thích Giap Bat, Gia Lam, My Dinh, Luong Yen or Ha Dong khổng lồ get a coach with relatively low fair, varies from 100,000 VND (about $5) per one way ticket.