Kelvin Long and Nguyen Phong started their journey by following a small trail at the foot of Hai Van Bac Pass on a sunny day in mid-October in the Central region. If the trail had simply ended, the car could not continue and had to turn back, there would have been nothing to tell. Luckily, with a bit of curiosity, a love of exploration, and a few GPS devices in their pockets, they both thought: "Young people, why not keep going?!".
Just keep going and you will get there, just keep walking and you will get there, and they saw the railway through Hai Van Pass, the most difficult but also the most beautiful stretch of the North-South railway.
“Following the railway, you will see a stream, then the old train station…” - the old ranger’s words encouraged them to continue. Indeed, Kelvin Long and Nguyen Phong were surprised, overwhelmed, stunned and then burst into tears when they witnessed the beautiful scenery here.
That is Bai Ka station, small, run-down, nestled in a corner of the forest, now only used as a temporary shelter for railway workers on maintenance trips along the North-South line.
These are bridges with unique architecture, called "Vong Thuyen" as locals call them, or "Cua Gio" as railway workers call them.
That is a very close and very real image, each Thong Nhat train crosses Hai Van pass one by one.
And that is the nature of Vietnam, with high mountains and deep ravines, vast green forests, vast sky, vast ocean, and somewhere far away below the foot of the pass is a bay that cuts deep into the cliffs, forming giant arcs with golden sand strips shimmering in the sun...
Readers are invited to admire and feel the majesty and vastness of Vietnam's nature through the photos of this group of young photographers.
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