The short version. Jasmine Tours is a licensed Vietnamese tour operator based in Ha Giang, trading as CÔNG TY TNHH JASMINE HÀ GIANG, tax code 5100503221, international tour operator licence 02-028/2025/CDLQGVN-GP LHQT. We’ve run this route since 2017. A three-day shared loop with a local driver is 5,650,560₫ a head and the self-drive version of the same trip is 4,276,800₫, both our own listed prices as of August 2026. This website is ours as well, which is the first thing you should know about anything you read on it.
Who runs Jasmine Tours, and can you check any of it?
My name is Nguyen Van Tuan and I’m the director. I’m from Hà Giang. My wife and I started with a homestay, three second-hand Sirius 110cc bikes, and almost no English. That was late 2017.
You’ve probably arrived here because somebody told you our name and you want to know we exist. Fair enough. Here’s what you can check without trusting a word I write.
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| Legal entity | CÔNG TY TNHH JASMINE HÀ GIANG |
| Tax code | 5100503221 |
| International tour operator licence | 02-028/2025/CDLQGVN-GP LHQT, issued by the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism |
| Registered address | 134C Lý Tự Trọng, tổ 17, phường Minh Khai, Ha Giang |
| Hanoi office | 22 Ngõ Phất Lộc, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi |
| Director | Nguyen Van Tuan |
| Company page | facebook.com/jasminehagiang |
A licence number is worth more than any sentence I could write about ourselves. Copy it and ask the national tourism authority, or ask us to show you the certificate before you pay. Any operator who can’t produce one is not a tour operator.
The trade magazine Tiếp Thị Gia Đình profiled the company on 6 October 2025 and dated the start to October 2017, which matches the registration and matches my own account above. The same piece reported that 70% of our long-term staff are ethnic-minority people, many of them with us since 2018.
One more thing, and I want to be exact, because this road is full of people claiming to have invented it. Travellers gave the loop its English name, not me. What I did was split the route into two, three and four-day itineraries — and so did other people; the difference is we pushed ours until it wore into the shape most people ride now. We printed our own route map and gave it to every rider who took a bike from us: stops, passes, where to sleep, what to skip.
What does a Ha Giang Loop tour with us actually cost?
These are our listed prices, read from our own 2026 rate card on 20 August 2026. Dollar figures are approximate, converted at 26,179₫ to the US dollar, the rate we recorded that same day.
Shared group tours, per person, dorm bed, including the return sleeper bus Hanoi – Ha Giang – Hanoi:
| Trip | Self-drive | Easy rider (local driver) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 days, 1 night | 3,369,600₫ (~US$129) | 3,939,840₫ (~US$150) |
| 3 days, 2 nights | 4,276,800₫ (~US$163) | 5,650,560₫ (~US$216) |
| 4 days, 3 nights | 5,184,000₫ (~US$198) | 7,128,000₫ (~US$272) |
That’s our own tour — Jasmine Tours is the company behind this site.
If you don’t want a dorm, or don’t want a bike, there are private options. A private motorbike tour for up to eight guests is 6,419,520₫ (~US$245) for three days, or 8,100,000₫ (~US$309) for four. An SUV works out at 4,931,617₫ (~US$188) a head over three days with three to five people in the car. A Jeep Wrangler is 8,808,480₫ (~US$336) a head on the same trip with three or four.
Read those car prices carefully against the motorbike ones, because they aren’t the same product. The shared motorbike tours put you in a dorm. The SUV and Jeep trips include a private room every night, plus an English-speaking driver and the Nho Quế boat ticket. Comparing the headline numbers without that difference will mislead you, and it usually flatters the bike.
Departures over Tết carry a 10% surcharge. Tết moves with the lunar calendar, so the dates move too: Tết Đinh Mùi falls on 6 February 2027, which puts the surcharge window at roughly 23 January to 11 February 2027.
Our full breakdown of what a loop costs, including the parts nobody prices, is in our Ha Giang Loop cost guide. Booking happens on jasminehagiang.com.
What the price includes, and what it does not
Included in a shared tour: the return sleeper bus from Hanoi, a dorm bed each night, the motorbike and its fuel, and a guide. Entry tickets are in there too, including the boat on the Nho Quế. So is a local driver, if you’ve booked easy rider. Meals are counted rather than promised loosely — a three-day trip carries three breakfasts, three lunches and two dinners.
Not included: your own travel insurance, personal spending, and tips.
There’s a detail in that list I’ve never bothered to explain before, and it’s the reason the day runs the way it does. Several of the places you stop are ours. The bus drops you at our own office. Lunch on day one is at our restaurant, the briefing happens at our hostel, and the trip finishes back at the same hostel four days later. We aren’t booking you into a chain of other people’s businesses and hoping they turn up. When something goes wrong at one of those stops, it’s my staff who fix it, and there’s nobody for me to blame.
A private room on a shared tour is 432,000₫ (~US$17) per room per night for one bed and up to two people, or 648,000₫ (~US$25) for two beds and up to three. If you’re joining the bus somewhere other than Hanoi — Sapa, Ninh Bình, Cát Bà, Hạ Long — there’s a connection surcharge, and it starts at 108,000₫.
The border permit is a separate thing, and we handle it end to end. The fee is US$10, paid in person at the provincial immigration office, which works from an address in Ha Giang. At the moment we absorb that fee as a promotion, and I can’t tell you when that promotion ends, because we haven’t set an end date. What the permit is and why you need one is a separate read.
What does the insurance actually pay for?
We do carry a policy for you. Bảo Việt, the standard operator cover, with a death benefit of 50,000,000₫. It’s a minimum-level policy and I’d rather tell you that plainly: it isn’t travel insurance and it isn’t a substitute for travel insurance.
So we ask every rider to buy their own before they arrive, and to check it covers motorbikes. Open the policy document and search it for the word “motorcycle” before you pay for it. Plenty of ordinary travel policies exclude exactly this trip.
There’s a second cover, and people mix the two up constantly. The motorbike damage cover is for the bike, not for you. If a bike goes down and can’t be ridden, moving it or replacing it is our cost rather than yours. That’s a machine being insured. Your leg isn’t in that sentence anywhere.
Who is riding in front of you?
On an easy rider trip you spend three days on the back of a bike belonging to somebody you’ve never met. It’s the part of the purchase people think about least and should think about most.
Our drivers are local. VnExpress ran a piece on 14 November 2025 about one of them, Giàng Mí Giáo, 27, H’Mông, from Quản Bạ. He’d worked a mine in Quảng Ninh on twelve-hour days before this. He now leads groups here, and has brought twenty to thirty people from his own village and commune into the work. That story is a newspaper’s, not ours, and you can read it without us in the room.
Training is real, but I won’t overstate it. Hospital clinical staff delivered first aid training on 5 June 2024, run with the Ha Giang Tourism Association. A two-day course followed on 16 and 17 October 2024, with Đức Minh and Hùng Vương hospitals and Wellbeing, and ambulances on site. We also run safe-riding sessions with the police. I’m not going to claim every driver holds a certificate, or that the training runs to a fixed calendar, because neither one is true.
The rule I’d point at instead is the one that has no exceptions. Drivers do not drink. Not a little, not at dinner, not at all. A driver sitting up with guests finishes by 22:00, and every driver is breath-tested before the group sets off in the morning. Nobody rides until the test is clear.
Guests are a different matter and it’s their choice. Happy water appears on all three evenings of our itinerary, and if you’d rather not, nobody pushes you and you can turn in early. The music goes off at 22:00 out of respect for the village the homestay sits in.
Two more operating facts. Groups are capped at ten guests, with a leader and a second rider supporting. And our bikes run at roughly 30,000 to 50,000 kilometres and are serviced by our own team on site, every time one comes back from a trip, rather than on a fixed interval.
Here’s a test you can run on anybody, us included. Ask who your driver will be, whether he was breath-tested this morning, and who counts heads at each stop. Most operators can’t answer the second question at all.
What guests complain about
Every operator on this road has complaints. Ours are concentrated in one period and are mostly about one thing, so here it is in plain terms rather than left for you to piece together.
They cluster in 2023 and 2024. We grew faster than Ha Giang’s transport could carry. On a handful of peak days — public holidays, Tết — guests who’d paid for a VIP bus ended up on an ordinary one. We apologised and we refunded. That’s what happened.
Two things fixed it, and only one of them was us. There are far more coach operators on these routes now, so seats stopped being the constraint. And the traffic police enforce passenger numbers hard enough that a photograph is enough to fine an operator, which ended the overloading across the whole route rather than just here.
You’ll also read that two hundred people leave from here on a busy morning. That’s true, and it’s misleading. Nobody rides in a group of two hundred. You ride in a group of ten with two people responsible for it, which is a different picture entirely and it’s the accurate one.
When should you not book with us?
Three cases, and I’d rather you found them here than afterwards.
If price is the deciding factor. We aren’t the cheapest and that’s a decision, not an oversight. We pay tax in full and we pay our drivers properly, and a price well below ours means something came off the road rather than off the margin. If your budget decides this trip, ride it yourself — self-drive at 4,276,800₫ is the honest cheaper option and it isn’t a lesser trip.
If the motorbike is wrong for you. The bike tours suit riders roughly 20 to 35, and we’d rather decline a booking than put somebody on these descents we don’t think is safe on them. That isn’t a hard age rule and I won’t pretend it is. When we say no, we offer the private SUV or Jeep instead: same route, private room, somebody else driving. For a lot of people that was always the better trip.
If you want a particular crowd. Our guests are mostly British and Australian. German, French, American and Singaporean travellers are still a small share of who we host, and if you’re hoping for a specific mix, ask before you book instead of after.
Cancelling, and what it costs you
These are the terms for individual guests, not for agencies.
| When you cancel | What you lose |
|---|---|
| 30 to 16 days before departure | 50% of the total, plus any bank charges |
| Fewer than 15 days before | The whole deposit |
| No-show | 100% |
| Included services you don’t use | Not refunded |
Switching from easy rider to self-drive after booking doesn’t refund the difference. If we cancel on you, we offer an equivalent alternative or refund the lot.
How to book, and what happens next
Booking runs through jasminehagiang.com, and you can pay in dollars or đồng before departure. Your passport and visa are your responsibility; we’ll help, but we can’t be responsible for them.
We do keep the right to change an itinerary, swap a homestay or cancel a departure for weather, for something the authorities close, for traffic or for the group itself. On this road that’s honesty rather than small print. If something goes wrong, put it to us in writing within 30 days of the tour ending.
So: how many days have you actually got in the north, counting the night bus at both ends? Answer that first, then pick the bike or the car. Have a look at the dates when you know.
Common questions
Is the Nho Quế boat included? Yes. It’s on day three, through the Tu Sản canyon, and the ticket is inside the tour price. We’ve written separately about the river and the boats that work it.
Is there a lot of drinking? There can be, and it’s optional. Happy water is on the itinerary all three evenings, drivers have none at all, and music stops at 22:00.
Do I need an International Driving Permit? If you’re riding yourself, yes, and the detail matters more than people expect. We’ve set it out in full in our guide to the permit.
Do you sort the border permit? Yes, all of it. US$10, and we’re currently covering the fee ourselves.
Can I do this without riding a motorbike at all? Yes. The SUV and Jeep trips run the same route with a driver and a private room each night.
