1 min readTravel
Views: 4Hà Giang: notes for a first trip north
Vietnam's northernmost province is all limestone, switchbacks and river canyons. A few things worth knowing before you go.
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1 min readPlaces
Views: 0Mountains and clouds of northern Vietnam
A sea of clouds at sunrise, rice terraces on the slopes and a river cut deep into limestone.
2 min readJapan
Views: 0Mount Fuji and the Five Lakes
At 3,776 metres, Mount Fuji is Japan's highest peak and its most familiar symbol. A profile of the volcano, the lakes at its northern foot, and why Japanese art keeps returning to it.
2 min readVietnam
Views: 0The rice terraces of northern Vietnam and the people who built them
Terraced fields climb the mountains of the north in curves that follow the land. They are a farming system built over generations by Hmong, Dao, Hà Nhì and other communities, and they change colour with the seasons.
1 min readTaiwan
Views: 0Taiwan's mountain spine
Most of Taiwan is mountains. A short introduction to the island's high ranges, its national parks and the best seasons to go up.
2 min readVietnam
Views: 0The Đồng Văn Karst Plateau: a geopark made of stone
On Vietnam's far northern border, a high limestone plateau records hundreds of millions of years of geological history, and the communities living on it have learned to farm between the rocks.