Ba Vì National Park () is a

national park A national park is a nature park designated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance. It is an area of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that is protecte ...

located west of

Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

. The park is located in the Ba Vì mountain range.

Geography

Ba Vì National Park covers an area of inside

Ba Vì District Ba Vì is a district of Hanoi, Vietnam. Ba Vì district was established on July 26, 1968. History Ba Vì was consolidated basis of the old districts Bất Bạt, Tùng Thiện and Quảng Oai, Hà Tây province. From 1975 to 1978, Ba Vì distr ...

Lương Sơn district Liang () is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin. The surname is often transliterated as Leung (in Hong Kong) or Leong (in Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines) according to its Cantonese and Hakka pronunciation, Neo / ...

and the city of

Hòa Bình Hòa Bình (also written as ', lit. "peace") may refer to: Places in Vietnam * Hòa Bình Province, a province in the Northwest region * Hòa Bình City, the capital of Hòa Bình Province * Hòa Bình District, a rural district of Bạc Liêu Prov ...

, in the province of Hòa Bình. The national park is 15km west of the nearest town,

Sơn Tây ''Toxicodendron succedaneum'', the wax tree, Japanese Hazenoki tree (Sumac or wax tree), sơn in Vietnamese or charão in Portuguese, is a flowering plant species in the genus '' Toxicodendron'' found in Asia, although it has been planted else ...

and 48km western from the centre of Hanoi. The Park is situated on the Ba Vì mountain range, running north-west and south-east with the highesr peak being located on Vua mountain (lit. King Mountain) of 1,296 m. The park also features Tan Vien mountain with an altitude of 1,226 m and Ngoc Hoa mountain with 1,120 m. Ba Vì National Park is the site of the remains of an ancient

volcano A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most oft ...

, with the last eruption dated approximately 200 million years ago.

Gallery

File:Vuon QG Ba Vi.JPG, Ba Vi National Park File:Ba-Vi7.jpg, Ba Vì National Park, Entrance to Ho Chi Minh Temple on King High Peak, Vietnam File:KhoangXanh - Be khoang nong 19.JPG, Ba Vi National Park File:Ba-Vi6-Vietnam.jpg, Ba Vì National Park, Inside the Ho Chi Minh Temple on King High Peak, Vietnam File:Ba-Vi3-Vietnam.jpg, Ba Vì National Park, Inside the Ho Chi Minh Temple on King High Peak, Vietnam File:Ba-Vi5-Vietnam.jpg, Ba Vì National Park, Ho Chi Minh Temple on King High Peak, Vietnam File:Ba-Vi2-Vietnam.jpg, Ba Vì National Park, Ho Chi Minh Temple on King High Peak, Vietnam File:Ba-Vi4.jpg, Ba Vì National Park, a few of the cloud shrouded 1,320 steps up King High Peak to the Ho Chi Minh Temple File:Ba-Vi-Vietnam1.jpg, Ba Vì National Park, cloud shrouded forest on way up King High Peak to the Ho Chi Minh Temple

References

External links

Ba Vi National Park, Vietnam

Vietnam National Parks
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ba Vi National Park Ba Vì National parks of Vietnam Populated places in Hanoi Geography of Hòa Bình province Protected areas established in 1991 1991 establishments in Vietnam Northern Indochina subtropical forests