Where stone

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

meets water.

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
Núi Thủng · The Eye of the Mountain
Four journeys · 2026

Explore the fun

01

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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Cao Bằng morning market
02

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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Khuổi Ky stone village
03

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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Pác Bó · Angel Mountain
04

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 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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