Jashill Homestay sits on top of a hill above the rice terraces in Du Gia (Du Già). Private rooms face the valley, plus five shared dorms and a pool. Book it for a quiet, comfortable night with a genuine view, provided you accept that this is a built resort and not a family house. Look elsewhere if you came for dinner on the floor of a Tay stilt house.
Every photograph here is ours, shot in August 2026. I would rather show you the rooms than describe them. Rival pages allow each property a single paragraph and one supplied image, which leaves you unable to see the bed you are paying for.
Disclosure, before any of this
This site sells nothing. There are no bookings, no affiliate links, no sponsorship, and no commission on anything you choose after reading this. Now the half that matters more: my husband and I own Jashill Homestay. We bought the hill on 26 January 2022 and spent two years building the place, and it is run by Jasmine Tours, the Ha Giang operator I co-founded and stepped back from. So this is not a review. It is an owner showing you her own property, using her own team’s photographs. The section headed “Book somewhere else if…” is the part I would read first, and I meant every line of it.
Where Du Gia sits, and why the night matters
Du Gia occupies a valley in the south-east of the Loop, and it explains why a four-day route exists at all. The classic circuit measures roughly 330 to 350 km. Adding this leg pushes the total nearer 380 to 430 km, up to an entire extra riding day depending which version you take.
That extra day is what people write to me about. Hardly anyone returns wishing they had lingered in Dong Van. Plenty wish they had given Du Gia two nights. On the shorter route you land here tired mid-afternoon and leave at dawn, and this valley happens to be the one stretch of the Loop that repays doing nothing at all.
Getting in deserves plain speaking. From Ha Giang city, count on roughly 70 km along QL4C and DT181, over the Quan Ba (Quản Bạ) sky gate and through Yen Minh (Yên Minh). Your final stretch, DT176, runs narrower and rougher than anything behind you. Beginners ride it daily. Nobody should ride it after dark, so leave Yen Minh with daylight to spare. For detail on the surfaces, see the roads that actually demand attention.
To see where this night falls within a whole plan, read the three-day route.
The hill was bare when we bought it
I should be straight about how I know this place. My husband and I own it.
We bought the hill on 26 January 2022. It was not green then. It was bare and dry, and the families who held it could not farm it, which is why it was for sale at all. The slope was steep enough that moving anything up here was the first problem we had to solve, before a single wall went up.
Building took two years, and we have kept changing things since. I came back today and walked it again. What you are looking at in these photographs is what a dead hill turned into, which is the whole reason I wanted this page to be pictures instead of adjectives.
It also explains the one thing the rooms are really selling. The site was chosen for the top of the hill and the view off it. Everything else here was built afterwards, around that.
What Jashill Homestay actually is
This is purpose-built lodging, not a converted family home. Blocks and standalone cabins thread along the slope, linked by planted paths, and nearly every unit turns to face down the valley.
The rooms
Each private room carries a window or a glass wall aimed down the valley. That orientation alone justifies the rate, which explains why so many photographs below feature glazing.
If you are travelling alone and would rather spend the money on the rest of the trip, there are five dorm rooms with twelve beds in each, sixty beds in total.
The pool, and the one thing it changes
There is a pool cut into the slope, looking straight out at the karst.
What the pool changes is not the swimming. You come off DT176 stiff, dusty and slightly rattled, and normally that mood follows you to dinner. Water resets the hour. That is the entire argument for it.
The counter-argument holds too. Nobody travels to Du Gia for a pool. If your mental picture involves a family kitchen and rice wine with strangers who become friends, a deck of fellow tourists inverts it, and you will notice.
The morning, which is the actual reason to stay
Mist settles into the valley overnight and lifts slowly. From an east-facing room you watch it happen without leaving bed.
What to do with a second night
The waterfall earns its reputation as the standard answer. Short ride from the village, no entry fee, and swimmable pools beneath the drop. I will not quote a height, since every figure circulating traces back to another blog rather than anyone who measured it.
A quieter option lies directly downhill: the paddies themselves. Wander into them during the hour before dinner, no arrangement required.
Book somewhere else if…
I own this property. That makes the following the most important section on the page, and the one I would be most tempted to leave out.
You want a homestay in the original sense. Jashill amounts to a small resort. No family whose house you sleep inside, no communal meal on the floor, no host’s grandmother pouring for you. Several places locally still deliver precisely that, and travellers most often name Du Gia Homestay and Tom’s Du Gia. Should that be the point of your trip, choose one of those. Do not let a swimming pool argue you out of it.
Money is tight. A private room here undercuts nobody. Village houses and dorm beds elsewhere cost considerably less. When budget binds, spend it on the additional night rather than the smarter bedroom. Our breakdown of what the Loop actually costs lays out those trade-offs.
You want to be among the houses. This place stands above the fields, well off the main street. That distance produces the view, and it also means riding down whenever you fancy eating elsewhere.
You land late and leave at first light. A squeezed three-day schedule gives you perhaps fourteen hours here, mostly in darkness. You would be buying scenery you never see. Either add the night, or take a simpler bed.
Practical details
| Address | Thon Na Lien (Thôn Nà Liên), Du Gia (Du Già) commune, Yen Minh, Ha Giang |
| Rooms | 19 rooms. Five dorms of 12 beds each (60 beds, 40 m²), and 14 private rooms: 10 Bungalow Doubles, 2 Bungalow Family rooms, 2 Double rooms with mountain view |
| Check-in / out | From 14:00 / 12:00 noon |
| Included | Breakfast, free wifi, free parking |
| On site | Pool, restaurant, bar, garden, terrace, karaoke |
| Pets | Accepted |
| Children | Free up to age 6. Extra bed 200,000 VND (~$8) — checked August 2026 |
| Cancellation | Free until 24 hours before check-in. Inside 24 hours, or if you do not turn up, the first night is charged |
| Payment | Cash, bank transfer or card |
| Smoking | Non-smoking rooms. There is an outdoor area where you can smoke |
| Phone | +84 974 205 994 |
Facilities and room types supplied by the operator, August 2026. First-party, and not independently verifiable. Confirm current details when you book.
What it costs
| Room | Per night, breakfast included |
| Dorm bed (12-bed room) | 194,400 VND (~$7) — checked August 2026 |
| Bungalow Double | 702,000 VND (~$27) — checked August 2026 |
| Bungalow Family (up to 4) | 1,026,000 VND (~$39) — checked August 2026 |
| Dinner, per person | 216,000 VND (~$8) — checked August 2026 |
Direct rates supplied by the operator, August 2026, tax included. USD converted at 26,100 VND to the dollar, the mid-point of the 26,034 to 26,251 range quoted for 9 to 13 August 2026. Booking sites add their own commission, so a price you see there will usually be higher than the number above.
Two things about those numbers. Breakfast is in every one of them, and the dorm rate is per bed, not per room. The Double Room with mountain view is priced separately and I have left it out rather than guess at it.
If you are still choosing how to ride the Loop at all rather than where to sleep on it, start with choosing an operator.
FAQ
Where do you stay on night 3 of the Ha Giang Loop? On the four-day route, night 3 is usually Du Gia. On a compressed three-day route, Du Gia is more often night 2 and you ride back to Ha Giang city on the last morning. Check which version your route is before booking anything, because the two itineraries put you in different valleys on the same night.
Is Du Gia worth adding a night for? For most people, yes, and it is the single change to the standard itinerary I would argue hardest for. It costs you one riding day and it is the only afternoon on the Loop with nothing scheduled in it.
Does Jashill Homestay have private rooms or only dorms? Both. Fourteen private rooms across three types, all with a valley-facing window, plus five dorms of twelve beds each.
How do you get to Du Gia from Ha Giang city? Roughly 70 km on QL4C and DT181 over the Quan Ba sky gate and through Yen Minh, then DT176 into the valley. The DT176 stretch is the rough one. Ride it in daylight.
Can you swim at Du Gia waterfall? Yes, in the pools below the fall, and there is no entry fee. Water levels change with the rain, so it is worth asking at your accommodation what it is doing that week before you ride out.
Photographs on this page were taken by the Jasmine Tours team in August 2026 and are published here first-party. Jashill Homestay is owned by the author and her husband, and operated by Jasmine Tours.
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