Tinh Ha Giang Holiday Weather today
Date/time of update: November 21, 2024, 2:02 am, Timezone: GMT+7
Broken Clouds
Temperature: 19.46°C
Temperature feels like: 19.68°C
Minimum Temperature: 19.46°C
Maximum Temperature: 19.46°C
Atmospheric pressure: 1021hPa
Humidity:85%
Visibility: 10000m
Wind speed: 0.36m/sec
Wind Direction: 74 degrees
Cloudiness: 83%
Sunrise: 2024-11-20 11:17:11
Sunset: 2024-11-21 10:14:55
Ma Pi Leng Pass is a 21km road passing through an area of rocky mountains with peaks of 2,000m above sea level. The pass itself is on elevation of 1,200-1,600m above sea level. The road through the pass is called “Road of Happiness” - Con Duong Hanh Phuc.
Travel Guide to the Ma Pi Leng Pass, Ha Giang
The Hanh Phuc Road made it easy to travel between the Dong Van Town and Meo Vac Town. Besides, it made it possible for travelers to adore the sublime beauty of the surrounding mountains and ravines, which otherwise would not have been possible!
Construction of the Ma Pi Leng Pass
The pass was made in 6 years from 1959-1965 by workers from 16 ethnic groups in 8 provinces in northern Vietnam. All work, except for some work done by explosive, was manually done. The terrain was all sheer rock.
The highest leg of the pass at 1,600m required extra two years of work. There was a suicide team of 17 brave young men who had been prepared with 17 coffins when they took the job of clearing the Ma Pi Leng Mountain to make a small path of 40cm wide. They had to hang themselves on the rock cliffs, manually carved a small hole into the rock to put an explosive charge in, then asked other team members to pull themselves up before the explosion which broke only a piece of rock each time.
Thanks to the small footpath made by the suicide team that other workers could stand on and carved into the rock further to expand it to a bigger road as it is nowadays. The suicide team completed their job in 11 months.
During the construction of the Ma Pi Leng Pass the workers were attacked twice by rebels which were all crushed down soon.
What to see, Things to do
1/ Cloud-dusted Rocky Mountain Peaks
The Ma Pi Leng Pass is a man-made marvel itself, the landscape around the Ma Pi Leng Pass is no short of a natural wonder! On the pass, you can see several rocky mountain peaks around all of which are cloud-crested for most of the year.
2/ Nho Que River and Tu San Canyon
Some 800m below is the Nho Que River and the Tu San Canyon – the deepest of the type in Vietnam. You could follow a small path to the river and have a boat trip on the Nho Que to adore the natural wonder from below! You may not want to miss anything of the 1.7km of the Nho Que passing through the Ma Pi Leng Mountain!
How to get there
From the Dong Van Town follow the solo road (Route 4C) south for 10km and you are there!
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