VOV.VN - Covering more than 2,300 square kilometres in northern Vietnam, the Dong Van Karst Plateau, recognised as a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2010, is known for its dramatic limestone mountain landscapes and geological formations dating back hundreds of millions of years.

VOV.VN - Vietnam received a series of top awards at the 2025 World Travel Awards (WTA) ceremony held in Bahrain on December 6, with recognition spanning world and regional categories for heritage, nature and tourism destinations.

VOV.VN - Lung Tam, a village nestled among misty rocky peaks and shrouded in clouds year-round on the Dong Van Karst Plateau in Ha Giang province, is renowned for its age-old tradition of brocade weaving of the Mong ethnic community.

VOV.VN - Unlike other weekend markets on the UNESCO-recognized Dong Van Karst Plateau Global Geopark, the Pho Cao market in Pho Cao commune, Dong Van district, northeastern Ha Giang province, follows a unique rotating schedule, taking place once a week with the market day shifting one day earlier each week.

VOV.VN - Meo Vac district, one of four districts in Ha Giang province located in the Dong Van Karst Plateau Global Geopark, is famous for its diversity of ethnic groups, for its superb limestone mountains, and for the Nho Que river, which looks like a strip of blue silk winding through the Ma Pi Leng pass.

A dossier has been built by the People’s Committee of the northern mountainous province of Lang Son to seek the UNESCO recognition of Lang Son Geopark as a global one.

VOV.VN - The first ever international culture, tourism, and cuisine festival is scheduled to take place from March 29 to March 31 in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

VOV.VN - Located in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, Dong Van Karst Plateau has recently been declared a member of the UNESCO Global Network of National Geoparks for the third time.

The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on October 29 held a ceremony to receive UNESCO’s recognition of the Dong Van Karst Plateau as a global geopark for the third time.

The conservation and promotion of values of geoheritage, especially geoparks, in Vietnam have advanced, contributing to socioeconomic development, enhancing international integration and improving the position of localities in multilateral cooperation mechanisms, according to insiders.