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Ha Giang is a place that all surrounded by “rocks”, where people will admire ethnic minority people for their strong will. Ha Giang is also famous for a lot of terraced fields spreading across mountains. Visiting Ha Giang in different seasons, visitors will experience different feelings that cannot be described.

How to get to Ha Giang?

Travelling from Ha Noi to Ha Giang, visitors mainly choose road route. In the past, through the telling stories of soldiers and youth volunteers in war time, they could only get to Ha Giang by horses or by walking.

Travelling by bus should the best option for visitors living far away, they can catch the bus at Giap Bat, My Dinh, Long Bien station. For more details, check out http://bit.ly/2VVbENP, where all the number of buses from Ha Noi to Ha Giang are provided. Visitors should book the bus early to get an appropriated seat.

The distance from Ha Noi to Ha Giang city is 320km. Bus station in Ha Giang provides 16-24 seated bus to districts of Dong Van stone plateau and Western districts of Ha Giang.

Tourists can call for taxi or hire motorbikes. Nowadays, road route in districts are more convenient so tourists can freely choose many options.

The distance from Ha Giang city to Quang Ba is 45km. For more information, please visit Quanbataigoo.com, where visitors can find more information about Ha Giang.

Aside from bus, tourists can find different options:

+ Route for car only

The starting point is from Ha Noi then through Thang Long bridge. Towards freeway ĐCT 05 to highway 2B. At the intersection between highway 2B and Noi Bai – Lao Cai freeway, turn back towards highway 2B to get to highway 2C (Tuyen Quang territory). After getting to Tuyen Quang city, through highway 2 is Ha Giang city.

+ Route for car and motorbike

The starting point is from centre of Ha Noi to Thang Long Boulevard. After that, following highway 21 to Son Tay. From Son Tay, go through Trung Ha bridge to Co Tiet then to Phong Chau bridge, go through road 32 to Phu Tho territory, turn left to highway 21 belonged to Tuyen Quang territory. When arriving Tuyen Quang city, at highway 2, visitors can see Ha Giang city.

How to choose appropriated vehicles?

To save time, tourists can get sleeper bus running through night. Tourists can catch the bus at Ha Noi from 19h to 22h every day, time for bus to get to Ha Giang is at 4-5 am of the next day. From here, tourists can freely choose different transportation options to continue the journey.

Quanba taigoo is pleased to support tourists travelling to Ha Giang.

Quan Ba fair is also known as Quyet Tien fair considered as a unique fair that gathers culture of daily life. The fair has more than 1.000m2, opens on every Sunday and closes at noon. It is located right along the highway 4C. For people living in mountainous areas, Quan Ba fair is an event that cannot be missed in their daily life.

Because of craggy location, people in mountainous areas lack opportunities to communicate with each other, therefore it’s noticeable that local people often look forward to the day that Quan Ba fair takes place. They all wear their most beautiful clothes to attend the fair.

Quan Ba market fair

The baby followed her mother to the market

Most of agricultural products and food in the fair are homemade. Just a few banana bunches, few kilograms of peanut, ethnic minority people from H’Mong, Dao, Lo Lo ethnicity can carry with to sell. One of the most attractive items that the fair presents is traditional brocade clothes and fabric woven and dyed from color taken from leaves and fruit by local people.

Colorful rich market bazaar

Serving relatives at the counter

The fair is not only a place to exchange products but also an opportunity for local people to meet and communicate about their daily life. Food counter usually attracts many customers, currently visitor can try sweet soup, which is commonly served in Delta. Children and the young are fond of ice cream made mainly from ice.

Restaurant at the market

When visiting Quan Ba fair, it’s easy to recognize traditional food such as colorful rice comprising five colors (white, yellow, purple, red and blue), yellow Bo cake sliced into a thick square, Pho, hot bowl of noodle and Thang Co hotpot.

Victory is an indispensable dish in the market

Five iridescent flavors

Quan Ba fair sells many kinds of vegetables such as Cai Meo, radishes, peas, …

Area selling vegetables

The weather in mountainous areas is usually crisp so local people tend to drink a lot to keep their bodies warm and show their hospitability. Alcohol is distilled from corn and sold in liter (20 liters per can).

At the end of the market is corn wine

Nowadays, the fair in Ha Giang is experiencing a lot of changes. Although it is having more shops, supermarkets, it still has its beautiful features. Thanks to this, Quan Ba fair in Ha Giang always attracts visitors and echoes visitors’ memories when visiting Quan Ba fair.