Name: Easy Riders Vietnam
Address: Da Lat, Lâm Đồng Province, Vietnam
Telephone: +84 933 272 172
Price range: €35-€450
Rating: 4.97

Ha Giang Loop in 4 days (start from Sapa)

Sapa to Ha Giang Loop: private 4-day Easy Rider tour

Start your private motorbike tour of the Ha Giang Loop from Sapa!

Are you ready to be wowed by gorgeous mountain scenery, visit small hilltribe villages, and feel the rush of steep climbs, followed by sheer drop-offs? From mountain passes and ricefield valleys to a H’mong king palace and a 54m² flag in the most northern part of Vietnam – this 4-day Ha Giang Loop Easy Rider tour is packed with sights and activities!

Heard or read that the Ha Giang Loop is a must-do in Vietnam, but also that it can be quite dangerous to do by yourself? The winding mountain roads in northern Vietnam are as beautiful and spectacular as they are unforgiving towards the inexperienced motorbike driver. Don’t neglect your safety and allow yourself an awesome motorbike adventure with our Easy Riders! We’ve been around since 1991, use only high-quality equipment, and our English-speaking guides are licensed, experienced, and fun.

For the Ha Giang Loop by motorbike, we only ride private tours. This means: no groups, and overnight stays in private rooms in hotels and bungalows.

Check out this tour’s sights & highlights.

Start
Sapa (click here to start from Ha Giang City)
Finish
Ha Giang City

Duration
4 days / 4 nights (3 in private room, 1 on sleeper bus)
Price
€340

You pay a 10% deposit upon booking your tour. At the start of the tour, you will pay the remaining amount to your Easy Rider.

Included are a sleeper bus ticket from Sapa to Ha Giang City, all overnight stays (private rooms), entrance fees, protective clothing and a helmet. All meals are excluded.

Find a list of all that’s included with your tour here.

Categories: Ha Giang Easy Rider, Sapa Easy Rider

Get on the motorbike and get off the beaten track with an original Easy Rider by your side! You will hardly see the highway, because Vietnam has much more to offer off the beaten track.

An experienced Easy Rider will guide you effortlessly through the country, with numerous stops at local families, unspoilt nature, fantastic food stalls and breathtaking temples and historic sites.

Route – Sapa to Ha Giang Loop (4 days)

Sights & Highlights

Day 0

Sapa to Ha Giang City by sleeper bus

On the day before your tour* you’ll be picked up at your ho(s)tel in Sapa around 5 PM. A limousine bus will take you to Ha Giang City, where you will arrive at around 4 AM. There’s a simple private room at a homestay B&B available for you where you can sleep and take a hot shower before your Easy Rider comes to pick you up around 8 AM (on day 1). Obviously, they’ll take you for breakfast and/or coffee before departure. Self-riders will have some time to become accustomed to their vehicle.

*You will be picked up on the first date you select in the booking calendar (day 0).

Day 1

Ha Giang City – Heaven’s Gate – Tham Ma Mountain Pass – Yen Minh – Lo Lo Village

We leave Ha Giang City and soon immerse ourselves in beautiful mountain landscape. We’ll traverse the steep Bac Sum Pass, leading us to the Quan Ba Pass or Heaven’s Gate – the unofficial entrance to the stone paradise that is the Dong Van Karst Plateau Unesco Global Geopark. From here, you have a panoramic view of the Tam Son valley, including the Twin Mountains or ‘fairy bosom’.

After we have lunch in Yen Minh, we will stop at the Tham Ma mountain pass, where you’ll meet H’mong children in traditional clothing. Our journey today continues to the magnificent Vuong Palace, built by the French for a local H’mong king in Chinese-H’mong style. At the end of the day we arrive in a village of the Lo Lo people, where we’ll stay in locally-run accommodation.

Day 2

Lo Lo Village – Lung Cu Flag Tower – Dong Van – Ma Pi Leng Pass – Meo Vac

We hit the road again for a day packed with more highlights the Dong Van Karst Plateau Unesco Global Geopark has to offer. In the morning, we visit the northernmost point of Vietnam: Lung Cu flag tower. The 54 sq metred flag waving from the tower represents Vietnam’s 54 official nationalities.

The road between Dong Van and Meo Vac is considered the most beautiful part of the Ha Giang Loop and the Ma Pi Leng Pass might just be the reason for that! This impressive winding mountain road takes you to an altitude of 2000m. At the top you can enjoy a panoramic view of the pass, cliffs and valleys, rice paddies and the turquoise Nho Que river flowing through the Tu San Canyon.

At the end of the day we arrive in Meo Vac, where we have plenty of time to explore the town and enjoy the regional cuisine. We overnight in a hotel (you’ll have a private room).

Day 3

Meo Vac – Mau Due – Du Gia

Today, we continue our way to Mau Deu and the Lung Ho viewpoint, overlooking mountains dotted with rice terraces.

On our way to Du Gia, we visit a culturally unique village, peacefully populated by five different etnic minorities. At this colourful stop, you’ll learn more about the ways of the Dao, Tay, H’mong, Kinh and Lo Lo people. We’ll stay at a nice bungalow, where you’ll have a private room.

Day 4

Du Gia – Du Gia Waterfall – Ha Giang City

Right after breakfast, we hit the road to drive to the Du Gia waterfall, an excellent place for swimming and cliffdiving. Along the road, we will experience a bit of daily hilltribe life as the villagers go about their usual business of farming, handicraft and selling their produce. We’ll also visit the Lung Khuy cave, one of the most impressive caves of northern Vietnam due to its height and an overwhelming density of stalagmites and stalactites.

On the last part of our journey back to Ha Giang City, we enjoy the wonderful views of valleys full of rice paddies. The tour ends with a little sightseeing in Ha Giang City.

All excited? Book this 4-day Sapa to Ha Giang Loop motorbike tour!

Onward journey?

Not staying in Ha Giang City after your tour? Our Easy Riders can help you arrange your onward (bus) travel from Ha Giang City – no commission – and your Ha Giang Loop tour can end at, or close to, the bus station.

The program above is a general description of the route. All tours are subject to change based on your Easy Rider’s own insight, depending on factors as weather, traffic and time. If you have specific wishes or ideas you can let us know in advance or discuss them with your guide at the start of the tour.

What’s Included?

Included

Original Easy Rider/English speaking guide with years of experience as an Easy Rider and a lot of knowledge of the area – motorbike (150 – 175cc) – petrol – sleeper bus ticket from Sapa to Ha Giang City – a room with hot shower to use for a few hours before starting the tour – overnight stays in private rooms – water – all entrance fees – helmet and protective clothing – waterproof bags for your luggage – rain gear – damage insurance

Additional costs

All breakfast, lunch and dinner meals, drinks and any other personal expenses. Expect your daily costs to be about €10 per person for meals and drinks throughout the day.

Optional: the (sleeper) bus from Ha Giang City to you next destination.

For more info about the overnight accommodations, luggage, travel with family or the booking process please see our helpful FAQ page.

Private tour – no groups

We offer the Ha Giang Loop by motorbike only as a private tour. We don’t combine smaller bookings into groups. Overnight stays are in private rooms, away from the party scene. You will guided by at least 1 experienced, licensed and English-speaking Easy Rider. On every tour at least 1 person rides pillion, sitting behind the Easy Rider on their 250-400cc motorcycle.

If you’re with at least two people, anyone who would like to drive themselves (and has proper licensing!) can do so on a provided semi-automatic 125cc motorbike or manual clutch dirtbike (Honda XR 150cc). Since one of you is always riding pillion with the guide, you can alternate between riding pillion and self-driving amongst yourselves, so all of you can experience driving in the mountains of northern Vietnam. This enhances safe travel and a more relaxed experience on the challenging mountain roads.

There are a lot of tour agencies offering the Ha Giang Loop as ‘Easy Rider experience’ and quality differs greatly. We’ve seen the most astonishing things: groups of up to 40 people, guides driving in flip-flops or without helmets, scooters that couldn’t make it to the top on steep climbs… On some tours, ‘accommodation included’ means sharing a dorm with 15 others. Great fun, but maybe not the best way to recharge for another day of focused driving on small winding mountain roads. All we’re saying is: make sure you know what you’re getting before booking anywhere!

Departure: daily departure by sleeper bus

This tours departs daily from Sapa by sleeper bus. You’ll be picked up from your ho(s)tel in Sapa in the afternoon of the first date you select in the booking calendar (day 0), meaning the actual motorbiking starts the next morning in Ha Giang City (day 1). At the end of day 4, the tour ends in Ha Giang City.

Onward travel to Hanoi

It’s possible to leave for Hanoi by sleeper bus the same night (9.30 PM), where you arrive the next morning around 6 AM at the My Dinh bus station. This ticket costs about 400.000 VND (€15).

Examples
Departure on Sunday evening, back in Hanoi early morning on Thursday
Departure on Wednesday evening, back in Hanoi early morning on Sunday

Most asked & answered

What is an Easy Rider motorbike tour?

An Easy Rider is a Vietnamese guide on a motorbike. Our Easy Riders are English-speaking, licensed tour guides who know the ins and outs of Vietnamese roads, nature, history and culture. Touring with an Easy Rider means that you comfortably sit on the back of the motorbike behind the guide – wearing protective gear – while you travel from one city to the next, stopping regularly to enjoy sights, local experiences, drinks and meals.

Tours start between 8 and 9 AM, and end between 3 and 5 PM. Your Eay Riders picks you up and drops you off at your accommodation. Multiple day tours include overnight stays.

How to book (availability, payment)

Availability
Use the calendar at the top of the tour page to check availability for the preferred date(s).

Booking
On the tour page, fill in the number of people you book for – choose between sitting behind the guide and self-driving – and select the date(s). Click ‘book now’ and follow the steps to complete your booking.

Payment
You pay a small deposit by online payment; the remaining amount you pay at the start of the tour.

➡️ More info: How do I pay for the tour? | Why do I pay in Euros?

Confirmation
You receive an automatically generated booking confirmation. Within 48 hours of booking, our head Easy Rider Mr. Vu will also email you to confirm your tour.

⚠️ Please check the spam folder, as sometimes his email ends up here.

How far in advance should I book?
You can book tours departing from Dalat, Hoi An and Hue shortly beforehand. For popular multiple-day tours (like the Ha Giang Loop), we advice you to book ahead. It’s okay if you don’t know your pick-up or drop-off location yet, you can let us know later.

Self-driving & International Driving Permit

On the tour, you can drive yourself if you are:

a party of at least two people; on every tour at least one person sits behind an Easy Rider.
in possession of a valid motorcycle license (A1 or A2), and;
in possession of a valid 1968-version of the International Driving Permit (IDP), obtained in your home country;

We will make sure to get you a well maintained motorbike (manual or clutch) and protective gear. The rate for sitting on the back or driving your own bike is the same, gasoline is included.

For safety reasons, we don’t allow passengers on the motorbikes for self-driving.

Luggage

Each person can bring one (1) backpack or suitcase (max. 20 kg / 44 lbs) and one (1) daypack or handbag on the tour. Even pretty big hard scale suitcases can be tied to the back of the motorbike as long as they are not over 20 kg (44 lbs); it’s more about weight distribution than size.

All luggage is put in waterproof bags and tied to the front or back of the motorcycle.

➡️ More information about luggage during your Easy Rider tour.

Is it a private tour or do we ride in groups?

On most occassions, it’s just you and your Easy Rider(s): a private tour.

During peak seasons (July & August, November – February), we sometimes combine multiple bookings to a small group. This group then consists of all the guests who have booked the same route on the same date(s). This is most common on our popular day tours (covering the Hai Van Pass).

Our Ha Giang Loop tours are always private tours. For us, this is an important way to distinguish our tours in this region from the awfully big groups some operators ride with.

If you are travelling by yourself and would love to join another group, here’s what you can do.

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