Lao Cai is a border highland province in the Northwest of
Vietnam. It is 296 km by train and 265 km by road away from Hanoi; it borders Ha
Giang province in the East, Son La and Lai Chau provinces in the West; Yen Bai
province in the South, and Yunnan province (China) in the North with 203 km-borderline.
Humans came to Lao Cai more than 10,000 years ago.