The Ha Giang Loop … with Chu Chu

Our final adventure in Vietnam would be a four-day loop around the northern province of Ha Giang. This is one of the least-populated and least-visited areas in the country, so we thought it would be best to hire a guide. After doing a ton of research, we decided upon a Ha Giang local named Chu Chu … and we couldn’t have made a better choice.

Chu Chu hails from a small village near Ha Giang, and his people are the Tày, one of Vietnam’s many ethnic minorities. We hired him directly, without us...