Recognized by UNESCO as a Global Geopark in 2010. However, because the terrain is mainly rocky, indigenous people have to work very hard to get food and vegetables for life.
Recognized by UNESCO as a Global Geopark in 2010, Dong Van rock plateau (Ha Giang) owns many famous tourist attractions attracting tourists from all over the world. However, because the terrain is mainly rocky, the indigenous people have to work very hard to get food and vegetables for life.
UNESCO Global Geopark Dong Van Stone Plateau is located in the northernmost part of Vietnam, more than 320 km from Hanoi, in Ha Giang province and has a long border with China. Dong Van Karst Plateau Global Geopark includes administrative boundaries of 4 districts (Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Dong Van, Meo Vac). UNESCO Global Geopark Dong Van Rock Plateau has outstanding features with sharp cat ear rock ranges, deep and narrow ravines, soaring cliffs, pyramid-like peaks, valleys, and valleys. The deep hunks, caves, and rock gardens create incredible beauty, of great value not only for tourism but also of great value in science and education.
UNESCO Global Geopark Dong Van Stone Plateau is home to 17 ethnic groups, of which the Mong people account for the highest proportion. Although it is a tourist destination that attracts many tourists from all over the world, the life of the people here is still very difficult. Rare land resources for growing food and food crops are interspersed in rock holes, in each rock crevice, on rock formations, or on rocky slopes… Also due to scarce arable land, copper Ethnic minorities here had to put soil into rock holes to grow corn (a staple food crop) and some vegetables for daily living. Therefore, for thousands of generations, the ethnic people here have formed a unique farming method – the method of farming in the rock niches or cultivating on the rock fields.
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Located at an average altitude of 1000 – 1600m above sea level, Dong Van rock plateau spreads through 4 districts of Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Meo Vac, and Dong Van of Ha Giang province. According to the Advisory Council of UNESCO’s Global Geoparks Network GGN, Dong Van Karst Plateau is one of the special limestone areas, containing typical imprints of the history of the development of the Earth’s crust. , natural phenomena, unique aesthetic landscapes, high biodiversity, and long-standing cultural traditions of indigenous communities. In 2010, this plateau was officially recognized as a Global Geopark by the Advisory Council of the Global Geoparks Network.
Dong Van - Topography, Geology
This geopark includes 4 districts of Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Dong Van and Meo Vac with a total natural area of 2,356km2, located in the North of Vietnam with over 70% of exposed limestone area.
This land is a spectacular and unique combination of soaring peaks and deep gorges at the extension of the Eastern Himalayas, with the highest peak – Mac Vac (1,971m) and gorges The deepest – Tu San is also the deepest canyon of Southeast Asia, with a cliff depth of more than 700m.
Dating from the Cambrian period (about 550 million years ago), up to now, Dong Van Karst Plateau has undergone 7 different geological periods. Visitors here can see firsthand the traces left in the paleontological, stratigraphic, geomorphological, tectonic, karst, cave, and important faults.
These “traces" also reflect two of the five major events in Earth’s biogeographic history that are boundaries of mass extinction. In particular, the Late Devonian Event occurred at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary, about 364 million years ago, causing the extinction of 19% of the paleontological families and 50% of the paleontological genera, and the Permian-Triassic Event occurred. 251 million years ago, was the largest event of the 5 events of the living world, causing the extinction of about 90% of marine species and species.
If you are interested in geology, you will find it very interesting to observe the three groups of sedimentary rocks, igneous rocks, and metamorphic rocks, as well as the stratigraphic, lithologic, and biostratigraphic features.
For paleontologists, each limestone cliff still records fossils of 19 valuable groups of ancient creatures such as ancient fish, ancient flora, eurispirifer tonkinesis, two shellfish, foraminifera, corals, conodonta, crinoidea and molluscs. All recreate an ancient story about an ancient period of the earth.
Inclusion: Private transfer, tour guide, breakfast, lunch, dinner, entrance fee, hotel
Inclusion: Private transfer, tour guide, breakfast, lunch, dinner, entrance fee, homestay
Inclusion: Private transfer, tour guide, breakfast, lunch, entrance fee
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| Hotels in Ha Giang | Homestays in Ha Giang |
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