Ha Giang Travel Tour

Meo Vac district

Meo Vac district of Ha Giang is a highland town located in the north. If you drive from Ha Giang to Quan Ba, Yen Minh, you will see 2 turns: one into Meo Vac and one into Dong Van. Meo Vac is about 33.6km from Dong Van, about 1 and a half hours by car, so be careful not to make a wrong turn. And because Meo Vac is about 5 hours by car from Ha Giang, you can spend a day here to visit or stay overnight to relieve fatigue.

See Tam Giac Mach (buckwheat) flowers in Meo Vac
According to tourism development, during the buckwheat flower season from October to November, flowers bloom all over the Northeast hills and mountains. Meo Vac is not the only town with buckwheat flower fields, but it has its own special beauty. Flowers in Meo Vac begin to bloom in September and October, lasting until the end of the year. When you come here, you can see the beautiful, poetic and romantic scenery stretching before your eyes along with the sweet scent.

Right at the foot of Ma Pi Leng Pass, there is the most beautiful buckwheat flower field in Meo Vac, so you can combine conquering the pass and admiring the flowers. In addition, when you come to Meo Vac, you can rent colorful national costumes made of brocade fabric hand-woven by the people to stand in and take photos. Please ask your Ha Giang tour guide or acquaintances in advance about photo costume rental locations. Or just buy scarves and headscarves to support the people and you will have a highlight for your photo.

Conquer Ma Pi Leng Pass
This pass is in the top 4 most worth going passes in the Northern region of Vietnam. Ma Pi Leng Pass meanders through Ma Pi Leng mountain, which is over 1200m high. The pass has up to 9 curves hugging cliffs and the other side is a bottomless abyss. It is this adventure of majestic nature that has made backpackers love coming here to experience the feeling of conquering and mastering speed. For young people who are passionate about traveling, make sure you have the ability to drive a motorbike well long distances and follow a stable backpacking group, then join the Ma Pi Leng pass tour.

The pass route is quite dangerous and must go through previous passes such as Bac Sun Pass, Heaven Gate, Can Ty and then up to Lung Cu, then continue 20km to reach Ma Pi Leng Pass. On a rainy, cloudy day, you should not go because going up the pass will not see the beautiful scenery. Please choose a sunny day to go.

Lo Lo village
In Ha Giang and the northern mountainous areas, people of the Mong and Dao ethnic groups often live. But in Meo Vac town, Ha Giang, there is also Lo Lo Chai ethnic village - a small ethnic minority in Vietnam. You may not have heard of this ethnic group, but this is one of the oldest Vietnamese ethnic groups. The people here still maintain their own cultural features and visitors can join them in cultural and dance activities and watch them perform community activities in Ha Giang festivals such as the rain praying ceremony in March and the Ha Giang festival. celebrate corn in September and watch people plant rice and harvest rice in the golden rice season in October.

The Lo Lo village is located near Dong Van town, so if you go from Meo Vac to Dong Van, you can stop by here to enjoy the ethnic lifestyle as well as have fun at other places in Dong Van to save money. time.

Visit the famous Khau Vai love market
Stories about love markets in the mountains have always been portrayed to us by literature and movies. But once you come to Khau Vai Love Market, you will feel the hustle and bustle of a market amidst the quiet mountains and forests. It can be said that all ethnic people in Ha Giang come to this market to meet people and exchange food goods. Khau Vai love market is located in Khau Vai commune, Meo Vac district, only opens once a year on March 27 of the lunar calendar.

Now, following the development of tourism, the market began to be prepared from the afternoon of the 24th lunar day, and people began to eagerly gather here. On March 25, the market opens from morning until night and ends on March 27. This market is no longer a place to focus on buying and selling, but is mainly an opportunity for people to meet and talk to each other. Visitors to the 3-day-2-night Ha Giang Tour will see colorful ethnic shirts blending into the old tiled roofs of the market, cooking smoke rising in the distance, and the fragrant smell of food. mixed with laughter, love songs and crowd sounds in folk games such as shuttlecock tossing, weak hitting, and stick pushing.

If you can't go to Meo Vac in March to attend the Khau Vai love market, you still have the opportunity to experience other Ha Giang markets such as Meo Vac market every Sunday morning, Niem Son market opens 5 days and 1 night - Mainly selling specialty foods, Sung Tra market, held every Saturday, is also a famous place selling delicious pork.

What time of year should you travel to Meo Vac?
Because Meo Vac is in Ha Giang province, you can base on the beautiful time of year when tourists often go to Ha Giang to go to Meo Vac. From October to December every year is considered the tourist season in Meo Vac. At this time, the autumn weather is not too hot and cool, with little rain, and there are also beautiful buckwheat flowers and ripe rice terraces.

From December to April next year, it is quite cold and cold because Meo Vac is located in the highest region of Ha Giang, near the Tropic of Cancer belt, so it will be cold longer. From April to September in Meo Vac it will be a bit rainy, but the weather at this time is summer so the rain stops quickly and the sun comes up quickly.

You can go on a Ha Giang tour from Hanoi in the summer in Meo Vac to feel the coolness and watch the summer rains on the high mountains, very poetic and romantic. You should pay attention to bringing warm clothes and soft-soled shoes for ease of movement, and book a tour to Hanoi - Meo Vac if you need to stay overnight here. Meo Vac is famous for tourists but is also just a small town, so if you don't know how to book a room in advance, you should find a car rental to travel from Ha Giang - Meo Vac to return to Ha Giang during the day, or go Traveling to Ha Giang by tour will be more convenient..


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