For every traveler going to Hanoi, after the journey to visit around the city, looking for a peaceful place to relax in the natural surroundings or challenge themselves on the adventurous paths in the highland and mountainous areas is always an appealing choice. Ha Giang province is one of the popular destinations attracting many tourists. To Ha Giang, if visitors do not see Quan Ba Twin Mountain, it will be hard to say that they have come to Ha Giang.
Twin Mountain is located in Quan Ba district, Ha Giang province, about 40 km from Ha Giang town. Among the area of tottering mountains, guests will be surprised to see two curvaceous mountains with a similar size and funny shape making everyone think of the full breast of the women at the young age. The mountain brings a shape of young female like a masterpiece of nature with great, strange and seductive beauty. During the four seasons, the landscape changes colors like the Fairy changing her clothes. Green clothes mean when the rice fields are in the young stage; grain season has a yellow color like putting on King’s clothes; the plowed season is the brown clothes to embark on new rice season. Therefore, the scenery of Twin Mountain area is always attractive for visitors from near and far.
For a long time, locals have called this place as Twin Mountain. Quan Ba Twin Mountain is also associated with interesting legends which are handed down by ethnic minorities from generation to generation. The story said that, in this land formerly, there was a handsome Hmong boy and he is talented in lip lute. The sound of his lip lute is like the melodious sound of streams, the singing of bird which makes the flowers blooming. There was a fairy on the upper world named Hoa Dao had heard the man's sound of lip lute, she descended down to earth to find and marry him. They gave birth to a baby boy, the happiness seemed flourished on this land.
But not long after, the Jade Emperor found out about Hoa Dao descending down to earth and getting married to a man. He got angry and sent people to arrest her. She wept and begged to stay to raise her son but the Jade did not allow. Because of her son, she has left her breast under the earth for son’s lactation. The milk from the breast raised her child and her child was more and more grown. Later, the breast turned into two mountains shaped like breasts of mom. That two mountains today are also known as the Twin Mountain or Fairy Mountain. According to the legend, thanks to her milk, this land has a cool climate as well as lush rice, corn, vegetables, and fruits. Tears due to missing her husband and child were turned into Mien River that is cool and beautiful as in fairy tales.
There also has another story about a giant man overcoming thousands of mountains and rivers fell in love with the beautiful daughter of this land. The family of this young girl wanted to try the boy and challenged that if he stopped Dong Ha River flowing back into the valley where the girl’s family stayed, they would recognize him as a son-in-law. The giant man accepted the invitation and carried mountains tirelessly day and night to prevent the flow. One day, he received news that his mother died, too abrupt and painful, he rushed home to mourn his mother and no one knew what reason why he never went back. The faithful girl still waited for her lover, and she waited so long that she transformed into the mountain to wait for her lover. Nowadays, the mountain is still there, Twin Mountain.
Come to Quan Ba Twin Mountain, whatever time of year, visitors will be amazed by the seductive beauty of the scenery here. At the foot of Twin Mountain, there are green rice paddies looking like the green dress of charming spring. On fall, ripe rice is dyed with a yellow like honey. Twin Mountain stands in the heart of the valley bringing a charm to land here. Moreover, the love story tinged with poetic feature has made Twin Mountain carry a legendary beauty and truth as the people and scenery here. Quan Ba Twin Mountain is still an attractive destination, a symbol of Ha Giang in the mind of tourists at home and abroad.
