High in the mountains to the southwest of Da Nang, in the range known as the Tho Thennon, there is a large river canyon incised by the Song Vang, or "Yellow River". This steep gorge through the mountains has a few decent sized tributary streams along it's path, and one of them that tumbles out of the Mountains of the Mist to the west is a stream who's waters are black. In an area of clear, blue, rushing spring water, and brown, sediment-laden river water, this is a bit of an anomaly. We checked this interesting stream out in April 2016, during the Reunification Day - Labor Day Holiday break.
In the middle of our Hung Vuong 2016 Road Trip, we spent the night in a hotel in Lao Bao, a town along the Lao-VN border. We had looked at some hotels in Khe Sanh but the pricing and options weren't that great, so we looked 15 km up the road, in Lao Bao, and found a great deal at a small hotel, so that became our overnight stop on the trip.
In early 2016 my good friend Kong told me about a waterfall he had visited before, down in Quang Nam, that he thought I would really enjoy. We kept making plans to go see it, but those plans kept getting interrupted by unexpected things coming up. However,, in late March of 2016, we finally put the team together and made it out to the falls, and got a great day trip out of it as well into Nam Giang District of Quang Nam.
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November 2016
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