Stop 01 · about 1 night
Hanoi
Lake water and narrow tube house streets in the Old Quarter, with the flat Red River plain spreading out beyond. Two metro lines now cut across the city.
Good for · First landing, street food, museums, onward trains
Signature route · Vietnam
The Ha Giang run
HanoiHa GiangDong VanMeo VacDu GiaHanoi
6 nights, 6 stops. This is one of the routes we actually run across Vietnam. It is the spine of a trip, not the trip. Tell us how you travel and the plan reshapes it into yours.
Make this route yours5 questions · about 3 minutes · nothing to pay
¶ 01 · The stops, in order
Where this route actually goes.
Each stop earns its nights. The quiz decides how long you stay in each, and whether a stop drops off entirely because it is not you.
Stop 02 · about 1 night
Ha Giang
Bare karst plateau, switchback roads and the Ma Pi Leng pass running high above a river gorge, 20 km from the Chinese border at its nearest point.
Good for · Motorbike loops, mountain passes, markets, remote nights
Stop 03 · about 1 night
Dong Van
Stop 04 · about 1 night
Meo Vac
Stop 05 · about 1 night
Du Gia
Stop 06 · about 1 night
Hanoi
Lake water and narrow tube house streets in the Old Quarter, with the flat Red River plain spreading out beyond. Two metro lines now cut across the city.
Good for · First landing, street food, museums, onward trains
¶ 02 · Along the way
Picks that sit on this route.
From the Vietnam file. Real places, filed by people who went, not scraped from a Top 10 list.
Do · The far north · Ha Giang
The Ha Giang Loop
Ha Giang, Yen Minh, Dong Van, Meo Vac, Du Gia and back, about 310 km of switchbacks across a bare karst plateau. Ma Pi Leng is the defining pass. Dong Van's old quarter and Sunday market, the H'Mong King's palace and the twin mountains at Quan Ba are the named stops. Three days is the rushed version, four is standard.
Eat · The north · Hanoi
Bun cha
Charcoal grilled pork with rice noodles, herbs and a bowl of dipping broth. Northern cooking leans on black pepper rather than chilli, so it reads light rather than hot.
Eat · The north · Hanoi
Pho Ha Hang Hom
A new Bib Gourmand entry in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide Vietnam, on Hang Hom street in the Old Quarter.
Eat · The north · Hanoi
Ca phe trung at Giang Cafe
Egg yolk whipped with condensed milk over a water bath, with robusta poured through a phin on top. Giang Cafe is the house associated with it, worked out in the late 1940s when milk was scarce.
¶ 03 · How it becomes yours
The route is the spine. You are the trip.
Five short questions, about three minutes. The plan starts from this route and a library of Vietnam trips we have tested, then reshapes the nights, the food and the days to your pace and budget.
No sponsored stops, no filler days. If a place stays on your plan, it earned the spot.
RouteThe Ha Giang run
CountryVietnam
Nights6
Stops6
Sponsored picks0
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