Coming to Dong Van rocky plateau, do not forget to visit the North Pole coffee, try on traditional Lo Lo people’s clothes, and check-in milestone 422.
The North Pole Coffee Shop is located in Lo Lo Chai village, a small village at the foot of Lung Cu flagpole, less than 1 km from the Vietnam-China border, in Lung Cu commune, Dong Van district, Ha Giang province. Transfer enthusiasts often whisper that drinking coffee in the North Pole, checking-in at the same time 2 countries.
The shop was built by Mr. Ogura Yasushy – a Japanese who lived in Vietnam for many years and especially loved Ha Giang. He invested about 200 million VND to create this coffee shop and then handed it over to Luc Thi Van’s family, who is Lo Lo to manage. Ms. Van is cheerful, has fluent English communication skills, and is quite good at mixing drinks. Thanks to that, coming to Arctic coffee, you can not only enjoy drinks but also hear about the culture of the Lo Lo people.
The shop was built with a brick-and-mortar architecture bearing bold cultural identity of the Lo Lo people, rustic and old with stone fences, yin and yang tiled roofs, earthen walls and wooden gates. The special thing is that the restaurant not only has traditional Vietnamese filter coffee, but also Japanese green matcha tea. In addition, you can enjoy grilled corn, ethnic kitchen buffalo meat next to fragrant corn wine cups.
The space of the bar is not too big, only 4 to 5 small tables are placed outside the yard, right next to the bar and enough for about 10 people to sit. The shop offers free wifi. Visitors can also rent costumes from Lo Lo people to take souvenir photos. The rent is 100,000 VND / set. The shop has a variety of coffee and drinks priced from 25,000 to 40,000 VND and a notebook for guests to comment and record feelings when coming here.
From the location of the restaurant, sipping a cup of coffee, zooming out, you can see the Lung Cu flagpole with the red and yellow flag fluttering in the headland of the country. After a long trip to here, just sipping a glass of black ice or a cup of green tea, famous drops of corn wine, leisurely watching the flag blowing in the wind, you have seen even though you have not gone far, but still lingering in the image of the earth. God, the people of Ha Giang.
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