Lang Son is right on the border with China in the Northeast of Vietnam, off the tourist track by far. Lang Son possesses amazing mountainscape and a plethora of ethnic groups. The land has several sites which mark amazing battles throughout the thousands of years of the Vietnamese history.
Ha Giang is getting to be a popular tourist attraction in Vietnam. Located to the extreme north of Vietnam with harsh weather conditions and badly stricken by the Chinese invasion in 1979-1989. Ha Giang was the last area in Vietnam to have peace back after the invasion by China, the land had been closed to tourism until the late 1990s.