Hà Giang - Part 1 (Quản Bạ & Yên Minh)

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April 22nd 2012

Published: April 22nd 2012

I’ve just come back home from Hà Giang province after traveling over 1,000km overland on a 5-day tour (14/4 to 18/4/2012). Hà Giang is the northernmost province of Vietnam which has 274km border line with China. The province is home to 22 ethnic groups (mainly ethnic minority people) and it’s famous for the best mountain scenery in Vietnam. This is my second trip to the province. Eight years... Read Full Entry

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Selling pigs at the market

Selling vegetables at Quản Bạ market

Yên Minh

Love this red flowers "Hoa gạo".

Selling dogs at the Sunday market

Highway No. 4C

Enjoying the food

Highway No. 4C to Yên Minh

Lùng Tám weaving village

An old couple at Quản Bạ market

Lùng Tám weaving village

Outside Quản Bạ market

Highway No. 4C, river and mountain

Thắng cố bò (Beef soup)

This is one of the local specialties cooked by the ethnic minority people, however when it's cooked for Vietnamese, it must be cleaned. The ethnic minority people often cook "Thắng cố" with all the parts of horses or oxen.

Highway No. 4C

Selling baskets at the market

View from Highway No. 4C

Quản Bạ market

Going up north to Yên Minh

Selling dogs at the Sunday market

Fairy bosom in Quản Bạ

Map of Hà Giang province & our route

The route we traveled: starting from Hà Giang city -> Quản Bạ -> Yên Minh -> Phố Cáo -> Sủng Là -> Đồng Văn old town -> Lũng Cú (the northernmost point of Vietnam) -> Mapileng pass -> Mèo Vạc -> back to Yên Minh -> Quản Bạ -> Hà Giang city. The other side (Trung Quốc) is China. There is no direct way from Mèo Vạc to Hà Giang so you must go back to Yên Minh.

22nd April 2012

Rob_n_Lorenza
Rob & Lorenza B

Thanks for sharing a very interesting blog with great photos. take care.

23rd April 2012

Leah
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Beautiful
Hi Hong Ha, Thank you for sharing your beautiful trip around Ha Giang with us. This area is just simply beautiful with colourful costume of the ethnic people, great village & mountain view. The river along Highway 4C looks beautiful. Can't wait for the rest of your blog & photos :)

29th April 2012

Hideyuki Kobayashi
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H'mong minority in Ha Giang
Thanks for the interesting story on your adventurous trip to the northernmost province. It's very interesting for me to have learned "white H'mong" in Ha Giang where the ethnic women wear skirts in white, while the other groups of H'mong people are respectively called "black H'mong", "flowery H'mong", "blue H'mong" "red H'mong" etc depending on women's skirt colours. I would speculate each group of H'mong is proud of their own color as a symbol.

12th April 2013

Luc Nguyen
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Good information & nice pictures
You have a verry blog with useful information & nice pictures about Vietnam destinations. Thanks Luc Nguyen http://tripadvisorvietnam.net/

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