Vietnam Vacations – Ha Giang

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Ha Giang, land located very first North of Vietnam, where the mountains high heaven and back suoi.Phia river north of Ha Giang borders China (length sea 274km), the east border with Cao Bang, the western border with Yen Bai and Lao Cai, the southern borders of Tuyen Quang. Discover life of ethnic groups in Ha Giang with Vietnam Vacations.

Topography of Ha Giang is quite complex, can be divided into 3 areas. Upland stone mountain located in the north of the northern route, with the slope is quite large, river valleys and streams are more divided. Climate shade with macro change, divided into 2 seasons, the rainy season and dry season. High mountain areas of the west under the upper mountain rivers flow sources, flank slope, deo high valley and the narrow stream. Climate region divided into 2 seasons: the rainy season and dry season. Low areas in the province including the area hills and mountains, river valleys and the town Lot Ha Giang. Average temperature in about 24 º C – 28 º C, winter temperatures sometimes down -5 º C.

Potential economic development and tourism

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Ha Giang has many majestic mountains, the top Western chamois to 2.419m high, with many areas of forest, timber forest more you have to 1000 trees you rare medicinal herbs. Animals are tigers, and, the wards, numbness numbness … and hundreds of other interesting birds.

Ha Giang have of Dong Van poetic majestic, the province has Khau Vai attractive tourist and abroad. To Ha Giang, tourists have access to products from the traditional culture and unique people in mountainous areas, which are the types diaper, fabric bags, clothing skirts with all kinds of colorful flowers, the integration. Guests have the opportunity to attend the regional market’s local residents and discover many new things.

Ethnic, religious

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Ha Giang is a place with many cultural heritage property with long tradition of more than 20 ethnic groups, a list of travel memorable by natural scenery and people here are not the same as any where any tourist in the country. Visit and get best best Vietnam Travel Deals from Viet Vision Travel.

Transportation

Town Ha Giang Ha Noi way around 320km. Ha Giang with Highway 2 to Yen Bai, Highway 34 to Cao Bang, Highway 279 to Lao Cai.

Hundreds take tea in Ha Giang

Hundreds of people interested in tea attended the Cultural Tea Festival and Trade Fair-Agriculture Promotion 2007 in the northern province of Ha Giang yesterday.

Addressing the opening ceremony, Ha Giang Provincial People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Truong To said the province boasted the nation’s third-largest tea output after Lam Dong in the Central Highlands and Thai Nguyen in the north.

“The festival aims to develop the province’s strong points and seek investment opportunities in order to turn its tea products into a sustainable trademark and a main item in Ha Giang’s economy,” To said.

Famous Ha Giang teas include the hundred-year-old secular tea wild trees, Shan Tuyet, in Cao Bo in Vi Xuyen District, Lung Phin in Dong Van District, and green tea from Hung An.

Ha Giang is considered a genuine and natural tea haven by local and international tea experts.

On the first day of the festival, Ha Giang won three Viet Nam Guinness Records for a 300kg tea cake, 500-year-old tea, and more than 3,000 people enjoying tea at the same time.

Organisers also took the opportunity to introduce a number of tourism sites, such as Ha Giang’s tea plantations and other places including the Hung Cuong Processing Plant, the Thanh Ha mineral springs resort, the secular Shan Tuyet tea trees in Cao Bo and the Pan Hou eco-tourism site.

Cong Troi in Quan Ba District, the ancient street of Dong Van and the Tay ethnic group from Tha Commune in Vi Xuyen District are also among the attractive tourism sites in Ha Giang, according to organisers.

The Tea Festival will go through Saturday.

Tours to Ha Giang to be developed

This was a challenging 7-day and 6-night investigation trip through well-known remote and dangerous areas of the northern mountainous province like Xin Man, Hoang Su Phi, Quan Bạ, Meo Vac, and Dong Van.

Nguyen Thi Minh Thu, Head of Hanoi-based Travel Company, a member of the group, said that the first step in the development of a tour was investigation, which includes such important activities as learning about local culture, infrastructure and health services.

According to Ms. Thu, whose customers come chiefly from Europe and the US, the most important thing in tours is safety and sanitary conditions. Ha Giang still retains much of its primitiveness and originality in terms of nature and culture and has hardly been touched by commercialism.

Since this trip, Mekong Travel has begun to develop tours of 6 days and 5 nights and 5 days and 4 nights, in which picturesque destinations like the rock plateau Dong Van Dong Van, Tien Thang and Xin Man villages will be the main stops.

Another member of the investigation trip was Sen Rung Trade and Tourism Company, which has more than 10 years of offering discovery tours to foreign tourists. President of the company Tran Thi Huyen Thanh said tours to such places like Ha Giang helped foreigners discover natural beauty and cultures of Vietnamese ethnicities.

Sen Rung has been eyeing Ha Giang for the past two years and considers the July trip a valuable opportunity. Ms. Huyen Thanh suggested that local authorities and travel agencies work together to develop trekking tours for foreigners.

According to Ms. Huyen Thanh, Sen Rung will offer at least two kinds of tours for Ha Giang: a 4-5 day tour connecting Tuyen Quang and southern Ha Giang and a 5-7 day one for the rock plateaus, Quang Ba, Yen Minh, Meo Vac, and Dong Van.

Vu Thi Thanh Ha from Exotissimo Vietnam Travel said Ha Giang had a lot of potential for tourism development thanks to its breathtaking beauty and interesting cultures of more than 22 ethnic minorities. But there are still many things to do to turn it into a tourist destination.

Kevin Tu Quy Thanh from Travelink Company agrees. He said Ha Giang still needed to improve traffic safety, sanitary conditions and health services. He suggested that local authorities put direction signs to famous areas and build fences on dangerous roads to ensure traffic safety as well as build more roads, public restrooms and stops to make it more convenient for tourists.

New project targets tourism in Ha Giang

The number of tourists heading to the northern province of Ha Giang has recently shot up thanks to international tourist agencies offering tours to the area, the provincial Department of Commerce and Tourism said at a recent seminar in Bac Me District, Ha Giang Province.

More than 250 delegates, including 35 representatives from international travel agencies, attended the seminar entitled Solutions to Develop Public Tourism.

“Developing public tourism is an important part of developing tourism in the province,” said Vuong Mi Vang, vice chairman of the provincial People’s Committee. The province has taken steps to open the villages to public tourism, where visitors have direct access to the people rather than being courted around by a tour guide.

“The culture of ethnic groups in Ha Giang is a rare resource that can promote tourism,” he said. “Many neighbouring provinces such as Tuyen Quang, Cao Bang and Lao Cai support Ha Giang in promoting the culture and developing the economy.”

Many, cultural villages have been built to develop public tourism in each district. Tourists can visit 26 cultural villages the province according to Nguyen Trung Thuong, director of the Ha Giang Culture and Information Department.

Lan Village in Yen Phu Commune is one typical village showing the customs and traditions of Tay the ethnic group.

“Many specialities are developed such as brocade, maize wine, shan tuyet tea and glutinous rice,” said Nong Quoc Trong, head of Lan Village. “We are restoring traditional industries and cultural values such as then and luon singing.

“Visitors can learn about the culture and lifestyle [of the local people] by staying in private houses and enjoying ethnic people’s home cooking,” he added, saying of the 37 households of the village, five are welcoming travellers.

“Leaders of the province should concentrate on promising regions such as Dong Van Plateau and Ha Giang Town,” said Vu The Binh, head of the Viet Nam Administration of Tourism’s Travel Department. “They should aim to protect culture and tourism resources. Ha Giang Province should refuse projects with negative effects on the environment.”