Natural feature
Hải Vân Pass
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Hai Van Pass near Hue starts at a concrete gun emplacement at the summit and works backward through the armies that took turns watching this road: the Cham and Vietnamese kingdoms whose border ran along this misty ridge, the Nguyen dynasty gate raised here in 1826, and French colonial troops who came to dread the switchbacks after ambushes in the late 1940s. Along the way you'll hear how a wedding gift in the thirteen hundreds first redrew the frontier here. Stand at the crumbling bunker wall and you're looking down the same stretch of road every one of them fought to hold.
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