Day 4 - 12/07/25

 We had a big day of travelling today, so we woke up early and got to the centre of Hanoi for 11am so we could catch our 6 hour sleeper bus to Ha Giang, the first stop on the Ha Giang loop moped tour!

The bus was actually surprisingly spacious - I could actually stretch my legs most of the way. It’s definitely one of my new favourite methods of transportation. I spent the first couple of hours of the journey gazing out over the Vietnamese countryside.


After a couple of rest stops at some of the dirtiest toilets I had ever seen, we finally arrived at our hostel in Ha Giang. It was surprisingly nice and clean, and we shared our room with an 18 year old British guy and a 65 year old French man who had one of the hairiest backs I had ever seen.


Seeing as we hadn’t eaten all day, we went out to get some dinner. Although we have so far tried to only eat Vietnamese food, we were so exhausted after the journey that we decided to just get a pizza. The man who ran the restaurant clearly had a very high opinion of himself.


After this, we decided to head home, get settled into the hostel and have an early night.



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