Núi Thủng, the Eye of the Mountain, reflected in still water at sunset, Cao Bằng

Where stone

A UNESCO Global Geopark in the far north of Vietnam, where a mountain opens straight to the sky.

Four journeys, built for the days you actually have.

Cao Bằng · Northern Vietnam

We are the mountains, the mist and the slow morning market

An Bình Travel · Easytrip247 — four journeys, one province, no hurry.

The place

A corner of Vietnam that never learned to hurry

Less than a day's drive north of Hanoi, inside a limestone landscape hundreds of millions of years old. Groundwater carved out caves, lakes, and a mountain with a hole straight through it.

The Tày build houses from stone, the Nùng forge knives by hand, the Dao keep remedies passed down for generations.

This is not a living museum. It is a place that has not yet been packaged.

UNESCO
Global Geopark
300 m
Falls width
3
Living cultures
400 yrs
Stone houses
Emerald water of Thang Hen Lake between forested limestone hills, Cao Bằng
Thang Hen Lake
Four journeys · 2026

Explore the fun

The Market Challenge

A list of ingredients, a crowded morning market, and no guide doing it for you. You bargain, you carry it back, you cook it with the chef — and lunch is whatever you managed.

08:00–17:30
One full day
0 km
Entirely on foot
2–10
Group size
1,280,000₫≈ US$49 per person
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Evening stalls under the lights of the central market in Cao Bằng City
Cao Bằng morning market

Three forges, one stone village

Incense rolled by hand, blades drawn over charcoal, paper lifted sheet by sheet from a bamboo screen. Then a night in Khuổi Ky, where fifty Tày families live in houses built entirely of stone.

3 crafts
Incense · forge · paper
1 night
Stone stilt house
400 yrs
Of stone building
4,600,000₫≈ US$177 per person
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The stream and stone houses of Khuổi Ky village beneath limestone cliffs, Cao Bằng
Khuổi Ky stone village

Both halves of the geopark

Pác Bó and Angel Mountain to the west, Bản Giốc and Ngườm Ngao to the east — six sites in three days. Two real nights: one on a farm, one in a Tày stone house.

6 sites
East and west
2 nights
Farm + stone house
2 ways
Car or Easy Rider
8,500,000₫≈ US$327 per person
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Clear water of the Lenin Stream at the Pác Bó historical site, Cao Bằng
Lenin Stream · Pác Bó

The waterfall, without the crowd

Bản Giốc at its quietest hour, the cave next door, then two nights of highland: stone lanes first, then a lake between karst peaks — with kayaks waiting in the morning.

From 2
Private car + guide
2 nights
Village + lakeside
21:00
Back in Hanoi
10,270,000₫≈ US$395 per person
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Bản Giốc Waterfall cascading into a turquoise pool on the Vietnam–China border, Cao Bằng
Bản Giốc Falls

Prices & what they cover

From 1,280,000₫per person · one day

Every journey includes a private local guide, all entrance fees, drinking water and travel insurance.
Three-day journeys add accommodation, transport and all meals listed. Children under 5 travel free.

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Bản Giốc Waterfall cascading into a turquoise pool on the Vietnam–China border, Cao Bằng
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