Bài Thơ Mountain
Limestone peak carved with centuries of poetry, once a wartime beacon tower above the bay.
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This guide to Bài Thơ Mountain in Ha Long begins in 1288, when the peak above the bay served as a lookout against Mongol Yuan fleets. It then jumps to a spring day in 1468, when a warrior king who also wrote verse stopped here while inspecting his troops, and to what he chose to leave on the rock. Best heard with the cliffs in view, where you can look up at the summit and along the ridgeline.
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