10-02-2019 13:00 via theguardian.com

Pilgrims' progress: a new mountain hotel in Vietnam

Devout locals have trekked to the holy peak of Yen Tu for years but a new ‘village’ at its foot is drawing other visitors to its pagodas, pools and forestsWe’ve all done it: fetched up somewhere so idyllic on our travels that we hate the thought of going home to stress and normal life.More than 2,000 years ago, a Chinese wise man, An Ky Sinh, felt this way when he arrived at Yen Tu mountain in northern Vietnam. He had been sent by China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang (259
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