I arrived in Vietnam after two years and there's one thing I kept hearing about
that wasn't even on my radar last time the Ha Giang loop. The Loop is a beautiful
motorbike route in northern vietnam that usually takes around three to five days
to complete all I kept hearing is that it's some of the most stunning landscape
anyone's ever seen those are some big words to live up to but I was talked
into it
by this book the sleeper bus from Hanoi to Ha Giang I can't wait to show you the
sleeper bus I've missed these things they're different everywhere you go in
the world in Vietnam it's like little bathtubs
from Hanoi I got a bus to Hajj on the city where you begin the loop I met a
few new friends we rented some semi automatics for one hundred and forty
thousand dong per day we woke up the next morning to avoid the checkpoint
since more and more tourists are doing this loop there's a police checkpoint
set up to stop you and see if you have an international driver's permit to
avoid this leave before 6:30 a.m. when they show up for work we started the
ride and before we knew it we had been driving for miles far past the supposed
checkpoint and so we were home free this was the beginning of the famous hot
jean-luc
and this is supposed to be the really the path yeah the city famous alright we
just left the housing loop this is day one so the housing loop is a motorbike
loop that takes about three to five days we're probably gonna take about four to
do it I met some friends and they're all coming with me so let's go check it out
on day one the drive was 120 kilometers from Hajong to Yin min after just a few
kilometers the fresh mountain air starts to hit you and you get your first
glimpse into what's to come the road started in narrow and we saw
our first rolling hills and limestone formations
so our first stop here it's coming ba heaven gate so our first stop here is
heaven gate and that we also say another place over here where there's a little
hill range
for about an hour so ended the trip now and you'll see some stairs on the side
of the road and this is having gate so we'll have two viewpoints on either side
next we had to stop at one of the few waterfalls in the area they weren't too
easy to find and we ended up getting to the hidden Knight waterfall half of our
group stumbled upon a bigger waterfall where there were hundreds of people
around bathing having fun being loud but our half of the group had this hidden
place all to ourselves so there are a couple of waterfalls on the haja loop
and we're about to see our first one
for lunch I stopped in kun ba and ate at one of the few home stays nestled
between rice terraces we asked around and everywhere at a set price of
$100,000 per person or around four to five dollars for a family-style meal we
had a buffet of tofu spring rolls egg wasabi greens chicken beef and of course
happy water happy water is a rice wine that's served with every meal you have
up here they clocks in at around 30% alcohol and so we didn't have more than
a tiny shot glass each to celebrate for the day after all we still had half the
ride to come
the ride started getting much better from here we started finding ourselves
riding along extremely curvy roads winding around wide rice terraces and
mountains
all right we decided stopped for an amazing view look at this
yet on the house
all right take a look at these rice terraces
we passed through Yemen pine forest and then to send it on the other side and do
the small town of jung-min finally just when the Sun was about to go down we
found our homestay in yen Minh our room was just a large space with 20 beds or
so and we found out later that this is actually typical of the region and how
we would spend each night on the rest of our trip stay tuned day 2 was even
better hey thanks for making it all the way through this video hit subscribe to
follow the adventure because I'm travelling all the real world I'm
sharing it all with you and then click one of these videos to keep watching
thanks