6000 runners have registered for Yen Tu Heritage Marathon 2024

The first-ever Yen Tu Heritage Marathon 2024 will officially start on December 8. Approximately 6,000 runners have already registered for this event, the organising board announced.

The event is expected to welcome more than 2,000 professional and amateur athletes to compete in three distances: 5km, 10km and 21km. 

Marathon athletes will run a course that passes through the Complex of Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape with beautiful scenery and majestic nature. 

The Yen Tu Complex of Monuments and Landscapes, known as the ancestral land of Vietnam’s Truc Lam Zen Buddhism, was recognised as a special national relic site by the Government. Yen Tu has long been famous for its history and majestic natural landscape. This place preserves about 2,700 ha of almost intact primary forest. 

In particular, Yen Tu boasts a combination of picturesque natural landscapes, with a unique spiritual relic complex of pagodas, temples, and towers of precious architectural, artistic and sculptural values of the Ly, Tran, Le, and Nguyen dynasties. 

Thus, Uong Bi City has always appreciated the value and great potential of the Yen Tu complex to preserve its cultural identity, associated with promoting economic development, especially sustainable tourism.