Núi Cấm (Forbidden Mountain)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 5.44 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,906 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,837 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,706 ft
- TrailRank
- 35
- Min elevation
- 127 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Coordinates
- 221
- Uploaded
- March 13, 2020
- Recorded
- March 2020
near Phum Krang Chai, An Giang (Vietnam)
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Itinerary description
a well deserved name for a weird monastery-mountain. First striking clues was small gambling machines disseminated across the land. Big local tourism industry at the top. Surprisingly a huge number of locals were camping in the vicinity of the big temple but a security guy deny us permission and it was impossible to talk to the monks. So we kept walking at dusk to leave town. after doing so we stopped at the small shop to eat something, the owners were visibly not comfortable us setting tent near their shop (which was a quiet unusual response for vietnam). So we kept following the road at night to find kind of a restaurant/guest house saying we could sleep here for 50,000 VND which we accepted. But after 30min a policeman showed up and wanted us to go back to the lake to get a hotel. After 40min arguing and politely refusing the go down he finally let us leave when we told him we gonna go down his mountain (middle of the night) to get a hotel in the next city (7km away). after 20min struggling to find the right path at night we found a nice unoccupied spot for us to finally pitch the tent.
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1,442 ft
Camp 1
setting the tent at night after looooong discussion with police that wanted to to go back down to the lake to get a hotel.
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Im feel so sorry about your trip at Forbidden Mountain. Hope you can forgot abt the policemans and local people, they just a very few of us! My messages to you guys want to hike or camping this area should go to the People committee of An Hao ward before comes. They will give u paper to make sure you are tourists and dont make any trouble there.
Sorry for my bad English, hope you can get it!