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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

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

Some days in Khuoi My, I do not accomplish much. Wake up. Brew a pot of tea. Walk out to the porch. Look at the

Many people think the more places you know in tourism, the better. I used to think that way too. When I first came to Tay

Some mornings I sit for hours in front of the Rang Cua ridge. I do not read. I do not listen to music. I do

There are tea trees on Tay Con Linh that have stood there longer than many people in the village. They were not planted for tourism.

If you ask us who knows this forest best, the answer will not be a tourism company. Nor a visitor who has come here many

Some mornings we leave Khuoi My before the sky is fully light. Not to guarantee a sighting. But to have a better chance of not

Some visitors ask us: “What is the best dish in Ha Giang?” That is a very natural question. But also a very difficult one to

Some roads become famous too quickly. The Ha Giang Loop is one of them In just a few years, from a remote journey for those

There is one thing very easy to forget when stepping into a highland market. That is: most of the people there did not come because

There is one question visitors almost always ask before coming to Ha Giang: “When is the most beautiful season? That question is easy to answer

There are paths we know very well. We have walked them to pick tea, gather bamboo shoots, find medicinal plants, check the water channels, walk

Community tourism is often told through easy images: a stilt house, a local meal, a few trails through terraced fields, a few smiles over hot

Why the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey reminds us that responsible tourism begins with knowing when to stop. Some trips to Ha Giang should not begin with