Vietnam has many beautiful sights and tourist attractions, especially in the northern. That is why many tourists love this place. Travel northern Vietnam, you will be able to enjoy lots of unforgettable experiences. In this post, we will discover 5 famous places with great scenery that you should not miss on your journey travel northern Vietnam.

Ha Long Bay

Ha Long is surrounded by Ha Long City, Cam Pha City and Van Don District in Quang Ninh Province. When travel northern Vietnam, travelers can take a boat trip to Ha Long Bay to see a series of limestone islands with great structure and shape. There are also some other outstanding sights we should admire when traveling Ha Long are Con Coc island, Ga Choi Island, Ti Toop Island, Ngoc Vung Island, Sung Sot Cave, Dong Thien Cung Cave, Dau Go Cave, and Bai Tu Long Bay. Ha Long is also voted as one of the 7 new natural wonders of the world.

Ha Long Bay is known as a vivid, charming art of mother nature

You can enjoy the scenery of Ha Long Bay from many different angles such as walking around a bay by kayaking, exploring caves full of sediments, stalactites and art formations. Or watching the bay from above by the plane, or simply visiting the local fishing villages to know about the simple life of a fisherman.

Ha Giang

Ha Giang is a mountainous province, located in the far north of Vietnam. 320km away from Hanoi and located next to Lao Cai (where the tourist destination in Sapa), Cao Bang (with Ban Gioc waterfall – one of 10 border falls. The most beautiful in the world), Tuyen Quang and the North borders China. Ha Giang is famous for its unspoiled beauty of nature, its majestic mountains, and hills. It is also known as the most beautiful and dangerous passes in Vietnam. However, Ha Giang tourism is suitable for it has many beautiful roads, cultural discovery, history and highland cuisine.

Ha Giang is famous for its unspoiled beauty of nature, its majestic mountains, and hills

The famous tourist spots of Ha Giang when travel northern Vietnam is that you should visit are Dong Van Old Street, Dong Van Stone Plateau, Lung Cu Flagpole, Ma Pi Leng Pass, Hoang Su Phi Rice Fields… Ha Giang is the common home of 17 ethnic minorities, of which the Mong, Tay, Dao Cham, Lo Lo and La Chi are easily accessible in your travel routes. With special features coming from the lifestyle, customs, construction architecture, cuisine … We sure it will bring you an unforgettable experience traveling northern Vietnam.

Tam Coc – Bich Dong

Tam Coc and Bich Dong are known as Ha Long Bay on land in Ninh Binh province. It has full of limestone mountains, rice fields, sedimentary caves, ancient pagodas and small rivers winding at the foot of the mountain. Tam Coc means three caves in English, it includes 3 parts: Ca cave, Hai cave, and Ba cave. All three caves are made up of the Ngo Dong River that pierces the mountain day by day. Bich Dong is also known as “Nam Thien De Dong”, is a beautiful natural cave. In front of the cave is a branch of Ngo Dong river winding on the mountainside, across the river is a rice field.

This stunning landscape has nearly 20 tourist sites, which you should visit. We will show you some journeys that can be reached by boat: Van Lam wharf line – Ngo Dong river – Tam Coc; Thach Bich – Thung Nang route; Thung Nham – Vuon Chim route, Bim cave – Thien Ha cave route… For walking, bicycling and climbing spots: Bich Dong mountain and pagoda; Tien cave; the old house of Vien Lau; Thai Vi temple – Thien Huong cave …
As a famous scenic area for tourism in Ninh Binh and Tam Coc – Bich Dong when travel northern Vietnam, there are many developed hotel and motel services. Whether you like a luxury hotel or a homestay hidden in a deep, secluded forest, your needs will be fully met. All you need is to have enough health and energy for continuous walking and picture shooting. And then you will have an album about one of the most beautiful scenes in northern Vietnam.

Ngo Dong river winding on the mountainside

Moc Chau

Moc Chau is a popular tourist destination for its dairy farms and green tea hills. The climate here is cool all year round, in the cool air is always fragrant with the scent of grass, and all of these things will make your soul young and younger.

For each season of the year, Moc Chau is beautiful in its own way:

• Before Tet and after the Lunar New Year (around the end of January, the end of February): a beautiful scene of peach blossom and white plum blossom.
• March is the time when the North West flowers bloom white forest. Around 26-3 of the solar calendars, there is the Ho Cha festival.
• About April to August of the solar calendar: Moc Chau climate is much cooler than Hanoi, without flowers but with plums and peaches for you to harvest (the fruit season is April to June).
• At the beginning of September, there was a big Independence New Year, attracting local Mong people and foreigners to attend.
• Around October to February, the calendar is the time to enjoy the white mustard flowers and other wildflowers to bloom.
• Mid-November is the time of blooming of white mustard flowers, yellow basil, five-color flowers mixed with the red color of poinsettia flowers in Moc Chau.

Moc Chau is a popular tourist destination for its dairy farms and green tea hills

Sapa

Sapa’s typical scenery is the majestic mountains covered with green color of the trees, hidden in the floating clouds. Covered by countless terraced fields on the floor, Sapa makes tourists think it is a stair leading to the sky. The beauty in the landscape here is described by three words: poetic, simple and rustic. But it still retains the majesty of the mountainous terrain. Sapa has so many beautiful landscapes that you definitely have to go when traveling northern Vietnam if you know how to enjoy life.

Conquering Fansipan peak is one of the dreams that mark the maturity, robustness, and personality of genuine tourists. You can climb mountains with groups or take a cable car, one of the most modern cable systems in the world.

Besides, you can also visit villages of ethnic people in Sapa such as Cat Cat village, Sin Chai village, Ta Van village, Ho village, … Here, you can admire the wild fields, the roofs smelled of smoke in the kitchen, the image of a mother put her baby on the back while working on the… Travel around the highlands, visiting villages and experiencing indigenous people’s life is the best thing you can do here.

Sapa: poetic, simple and rustic

These 5 tourist destinations in northern Vietnam are not represented for all of the beauty here. Vietnam in general and the northern region in particular also has many other beautiful scenes, from peaceful to majestic. Each destination will be an interesting story waiting for you to learn when travel northern Vietnam.