Ha Giang: 3-Day Dirt Bike Tour & Homestay with Ma Pi Leng Pass

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Duration3d

GroupUp to 8

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Three days on a dirt bike through Vietnam's roughest mountain passes, sleeping in a Hmong family's home

You ride your own dirt bike through Ha Giang's mountain passes and remote villages for three days, sleeping in a Hmong family's home and eating meals with locals. The tour includes all transport from Hanoi, the motorcycle and fuel, accommodation, every meal, a professional English-speaking guide, and protective gear — leaving you to focus on the riding and the landscape instead of logistics.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Ha Giang to Dong Van via scenic passes

Start at 8:30 am in Ha Giang City
Test and choose suitable dirt bike
Ride through backroad and rocky road
Stop at Pac Sum Pass viewpoint
Ride to Heaven Gate and enjoy view
Visit Lung Tam Village and local family
Drive to Trang Kim Pass and stop at viewpoint
Lunch at local restaurant in Yen Minh
Ride to Dong Van via Tham Ma road
Visit 9 step road and panorama view
Visit Hmong King Palace
Ride to Dong Van town and check in
Free time and dinner in Dong Van town

Day 2 — Dong Van to Du Gia via Ma Pi Leng Pass

Breakfast in Dong Van town
Ride through Ma Pi Leng Pass and Sky Path
Admire Nho Que river and mountain views
Drive through Meo Vac and stop at M road
Lunch at local restaurant in Mau Due
Drive through Lung Ho village viewpoint
Continue to Du Gia Village
Visit waterfall and swim
Stay overnight at Tay Minority homestay
Dinner and happy water with family

Day 3 — Du Gia to Ha Giang via villages and cave

Breakfast in Du Gia village
Visit waterfall and swim if summer
Ride back towards Ha Giang city
Visit Hmong minority villages
Visit Lung Tam village hemp weaving
Lunch in Tam Son Town
Drive to Ha Giang city viewpoint
Enjoy panorama view of Ha Giang city
Finish tour at hotel or bus station

The Experience

The bikes are lined up outside Mais's homestay in Ha Giang City at 8:30 am, engines already warm. You pick one — a Honda XR 150 CC — and your guide watches you test it on the backroad behind the office, making sure the seat height works, the throttle feels right, that you're comfortable before the real riding starts. Ten minutes outside the city the road narrows into a valley and the mountains appear, limestone peaks stacked so close together they block the sky. Pac Sum Pass comes first, over 1,000 meters up, and the air gets noticeably cooler as you climb. At the viewpoint you can see the valley floor far below, villages the size of your hand, and the road you just rode snaking back down like a scar.

Day one is 135 kilometers of backroad, off-road, and rocky trail that takes you through Lung Tam Village where Dao minority families still live in houses built the old way, then up to Heaven Gate where the valley opens so wide it stops you mid-breath, then down again to Tham Ma's famous nine-step road that every tourist in Ha Giang comes to photograph. By afternoon you're riding through fields of limestone boulders where farmers somehow grow corn, and the landscape has shifted from green to grey to something that looks less like a place people live and more like the earth broke open. You sleep that night in Dong Van Town in a private room in a traditional house, and the guide brings you to the Hmong King Palace first — built in 1902, still standing — so you understand what you're looking at when you see the old architecture around town.

Day two is the day people remember. Ma Pi Leng Pass sits at 2,000 meters and the road to it winds through cliffs so tight you can almost touch both sides. The pass itself is called the king of Vietnam's passes, and once you're at the top the whole valley spreads below you — the Nho Que River cutting through it like a thread, mountains rolling away in every direction. Your guide stops you at the viewpoint so you can stand there and actually process it instead of just riding through. After that you drop down to Meo Vac, stop for lunch at a small restaurant in Mau Duc, then ride to Du Gia Village where seven different ethnic minorities live in the same place. There's a waterfall, and if it's summer you can swim. That night you stay at a Tay family's homestay, eat dinner with them, and sleep in a private room — not a dorm, not a shared space, just your own bed in their house.

The last morning you ride back through the villages, stop at Lung Khuy Cave and the waterfall in Du Gia again if you want, then the long ride back to Ha Giang City takes the afternoon. You hit the city viewpoint around 4:30 pm for a last panorama of where you've been, and the tour ends at your hotel or the bus station by 5:30 pm. If you need to catch the 3 pm bus back to Hanoi, the guide can arrange an early finish instead. Everything is included — the bike, fuel, all meals (three breakfasts, three lunches, two dinners), your room for two nights, the guide who speaks English and actually knows the villages, protective gear, helmet, rain coat, water twice a day, and every entrance fee. You don't arrange transport from Hanoi, don't negotiate with drivers, don't figure out where to eat or sleep. The group stays under eight people, which means you're not herding through a line of thirty bikes.

What’s included

Your three days include hotel or office pickup from Hanoi and transfer to Ha Giang, a Honda XR 150 CC dirt bike with fuel for all three days, a professional English-speaking guide, protective gear and helmet, rain coat, two nights' accommodation in a private room (one in Dong Van Town, one at a Tay family homestay in Du Gia Village), all meals (three breakfasts, three lunches, two dinners), all entrance fees to attractions, and two liters of water per day. The group stays under eight riders.

Good to know

Easy physical levelInfant seats availableInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Authentic Ha Giang - Easy Riders - Motorcycle - Dirt Bike Tours

Is this one for you?Pick this tour if you ride or want to learn on a real bike in real terrain, and you'd rather not spend three days arranging your own transport, accommodation, meals, and village access — the fixed itinerary and small group size are what make it possible to cover this much ground and still sleep in a family's home instead of a tourist hotel.