Homestays in Ha Giang: what a real family stay looks like
Experience an authentic homestay in Ha Giang. Sleep in traditional stilt houses, share family meals with Dao Ao Dai hosts, and avoid tourist guesthouses.
Experience an authentic homestay in Ha Giang. Sleep in traditional stilt houses, share family meals with Dao Ao Dai hosts, and avoid tourist guesthouses.
Eco lodges in Ha Giang compared: sustainable stays, natural spring pools, farm-to-table meals and village stays with ethnic minority communities.
Explore Xa Phin mossy roof village in Ha Giang. Complete 2-day trekking guide, ancient Shan Tuyet tea forests, Dao homestays, and packing tips.
Discover Red Dao herbal bath benefits for post-trek recovery. Learn authentic medicinal recipes, Po Mu wooden tub rituals, and safe soaking tips.
Khau Ca is a small limestone forest in the north of Vietnam, and it holds most of what is left of one of the rarest
TVPalm runs Easy Rider tours only: you ride as a passenger behind a licensed local guide. What it includes, what it costs and why you need no licence.
Roads in Ha Giang (part of Tuyen Quang province since July 2025) change a lot along the Loop. Some stretches are wide, smooth tarmac. Others
Ha Giang (part of Tuyen Quang province since July 2025) has a monsoon climate with a dry, cool season and a hot, wet one. In
January is one of the most underrated months for the Ha Giang Loop in Ha Giang (part of Tuyen Quang province since July 2025). The
Ha Giang city is where almost every Ha Giang Loop trip begins. Since July 2025, Ha Giang has been part of Tuyen Quang province, and
Dong Van is the stone heart of the Ha Giang Loop: a small market town at about 1,000 m, inside the Dong Van Karst Plateau UNESCO
On a TVPalm tour you do not need a driving licence, a motorbike licence or an International Driving Permit, because you never ride the motorbike
Ban Gioc (Thac Ban Gioc) is Asia’s largest waterfall on an international border, and the fourth largest border waterfall in the world, after Iguazu, Victoria
There are dozens of Ha Giang Loop tour companies, from big party convoys to small private trips. TVPalm is one of them, so we will
I don’t believe a business can protect a forest. If one day we no longer exist, I still hope Tay Con Linh will be as
There’s a question I think visitors should ask more often before booking a trip. Not just: what does this trip include? But: where does the
Saying no to a trip has never been easy. Especially for a small business in the mountains, where every group of visitors carries very real
A small group doesn’t make a trip special. Tay Con Linh is what forces us to keep groups small. That’s what I’ve come to understand
There are people living very close to us whose work we only truly understand much later. In Tay Con Linh, I have come to know
Some days I do not wish for the rain to stop. When I first came to Tay Con Linh, I would not have said that.
For a time, I thought understanding Tay Con Linh meant going everywhere. Climbing higher. Going deeper in. Finding more new paths. Knowing this place and