Bài Thơ Mountain

This guide to Bai Tho Mountain in Ha Long starts with Mongol-war signal fires lit atop the peak in 1288, then follows a fifteenth-century emperor who stopped here to carve his own poem into the cliff instead of ordering another watch fire. It traces the reply verse a prince carved two centuries later, and the string of poems that followed. Look for the carved characters still visible on the rock face above the harbor.