Saturday, July 16, 2011

Ban Gioc Falls, Vietnam

Ban Gioc Falls, now known in Vietnam as a country thác Ban gic, which is a series of waterfalls in the Quy Xuan River on the Sino-Vietnamese border, which lies within the Karst hills of Daxing County in the Guangxi province city Chongzuo, China side, and in the District Trung Khanh, Cao Bang province side of Vietnam, 272 kilometers north of Hanoi.

Waterfall that falls from a height of thirty feet. Now fragmented among the rocks and trees, water falls and the sound of a distant rumble.

Until now there remains controversy regarding the border demarcation at this location is specified in the 1999 Viet Nam-China Treaty on Land Borderline, originated from an unclear definition and placement of signs at the border in a legal document between France and the Qing government.

One faction believes that this whole fall-owned Vietnam, that the boundary marker stones have been moved after the Sino-Vietnam war in 1979.
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