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Yen Lap Phu Tho Travel Guide

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  • May 28, 2025
Yen Lap is a mountainous district in western Phu Tho Province, Vietnam. The district covers an area of 437 square kilometres, and offers some of very beautiful off the beaten path hiking trails in Vietnam. If you look for Yen Lap treks, Yen Lap hikes, hiking Yen Lap Vietnam, Yen Lap trekking tours, Yen Lap hiking tours, Yen Lap trekking homestay you just need to let us know your travel requirements. We can tailor-make an itinerary for you.
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Yen Lap is a mountainous district in western Phu Tho Province, Vietnam. The district covers an area of 437 square kilometres, and offers some of very beautiful off the beaten path hiking trails in Vietnam. If you look for Yen Lap treks, Yen Lap hikes, hiking Yen Lap Vietnam, Yen Lap trekking tours, Yen Lap hiking tours, Yen Lap trekking homestay you just need to let us know your travel requirements. We can tailor-make an itinerary for you.

The districts contains 1 township and 16 communes including Yen Lap, My Lung, My Luong, Luong Son, Xuan An, Xuan Vien, Xuan Thuy, Hung Long, Thuong Long, Nga Hoang, Trung Son, Dong Thinh, Phuc Khanh, Ngoc Lap, Ngoc Dong, Minh Hoa, and Dong Lac.

Ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh), Mường, Dao and Sán Chay are the dominant ethnic groups which live in the area. The Dao build their houses in the traditional style, built either on stilts, level with the ground or half on stilts and the other half beaten with earth. Du village, located within the Xuan Son National Park, contains an overwhelming majority of this ethnic group is a tourist attraction.

Getting to Yen Lap Phu Tho
The best way to get to Yen Lap from Hanoi is to rent a car with driver. You will be picked up at your place in Hanoi and brought to any place in Yen Lap. Those who are on budget can take a public bus. Hanoi Viet Tri bus journey takes about 4-5 hours on road. Then either take another local bus or motor-taxi to get to Yen Lap from Viet Tri city. There are also local buses from neighboring provinces to Phu Tho (Ha Giang, Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Tuyen Quang…)

Booking a Yen Lap guided tour (with a tour guide) is highly recommended, especially when you travel to an off the beaten path destination like Yen Lap Vietnam.

Yen Lap Weather
Yen Lap is located in the subtropical monsoon region. The district has recorded average temperature of 23.5 °C (74.3 °F); the highest temperature and the lowest temperatures recorded have been 29 °C (84 °F) (July) and 15 °C (59 °F) (February), respectively.

The average rainfall varies between 1,600 millimetres (63 in) and 1,800 millimetres (71 in). Humidity is high during the monsoon season from May to October with the annual average figure of 85%; in the dry season it goes below 80%. Precipitation is in the form of rainfall, most of it falling during the monsoon period. Most of the rain usually falls between April and September.

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