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Kelvin Long and Nguyen Phong began their journey by following a small trail at the foot of Hai Van Pass North on a sunny October day in Central Vietnam. If it had simply ended and their vehicle couldn't go any further, the story would have been uneventful. Fortunately, driven by curiosity, a love of exploration, and equipped with some GPS devices, they both believed: "We're young, why not keep going?!"
Keep going and you'll get there, keep walking and you'll arrive, and they finally saw the railway line through Hai Van Pass, the most challenging but also the most beautiful stretch of the North-South railway.
“Follow the railway line and you’ll find a stream, then an old train station…” – the old forest ranger’s words encouraged them to continue. Indeed, Kelvin Long and Nguyen Phong were utterly astonished, overwhelmed, and stunned, only to be overwhelmed when they witnessed the beauty of this place firsthand.
That's Bai Ka station, small and dilapidated, nestled in the corner of the forest, now only used as a temporary lodging point for railway workers on their maintenance trips along the North-South line.
These are bridges with unique architecture, known locally as "Boat Watchtowers" or "Wind Gates" by those working in the railway industry.
That's a very close and real image: the Reunification Express trains crossing the Hai Van Pass one after another.
And that is the nature of Vietnam, with its high mountains and deep valleys, vast forests of boundless green, expansive skies, and the wide sea, and in the distance, somewhere below the mountain pass, bays that cut into the cliffs, forming giant arcs with shimmering golden sands in the sunlight…
We invite readers to admire and feel the grandeur and vastness of Vietnam's nature through the photographs of this group of young photographers.
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