Attractions
Quy Nhon:
Quy Nhon Sea: It has an annual average temperature of 25.7 degree
Celsius, and is suitable for tourism the year round. The Hoang Hau beach
is an ideal place for bathing.
Quang Trung Museum:
The Quang Trung Museum is dedicated to Nguyen Hue, a national hero of the
18th century. It was built in his native land of Kien My village, Binh
Thanh commune, Tay son district, some 45km from Quy Nhon City. Nguyen Hue
is one of the three brothers who led the Tay Son Insurrection. In 1788 he
led a great force advancing from Phu Xuan (Hue) to the North. It took 35
days and they exacted an overwhelming defeat on the Qing invasion force of
290,000 troops near Thang Long (now Hanoi), thereby liberating the royal
capital. He crowned himself emperor Quang Trung the same year.
Visiting Quang Trung museum tourists will enjoy music and demonstrations
of Vo Tay Son, a traditional martial art of Binh Dinh. In particular they
can see a young woman, a niece of the 9th generation of Emperor Quang
Trung, playing 11 battle drums.
Hoi Van Hot
Spring:
The village of Hoi Van Cat Trinh commune, Phu Cat district, some 40 km
from Quy Nhon City is well-known for its hot spring. The temperature of
its water is 76 degree Celsius and is composed of various chemical
components useful in the treatment of rheumatism, mental disorder,
cardio-vascular disease and skin disease. Beside the hot spring, there is
a sanitarium which offers submerged, shower and steam baths with mineral
water of 38 degree Celsius useful for medical treatment and general health
improvement.
The Thap Thap
Pagoda:
The temple was build in 1665 in the Do Ban citadel. the second capital
of the Kingdom of Champa some 27km from Quy Nhon City. It is a Buddhist
temple, but its decorations ar characterized by the Cham decorative art.
The Duong Long
Cham Tower:
The Duong long Tower of the Cham also called Thap Nga (The tower of
Ivory) is 50km from Quy Nhon city. Actually it is a group of three towers.
The central one is 24m high the two to each side are 22m high. This tower
group is one of the most beautiful in central Vietnam.
The Bank It
Tower:
This group of four towers, also called Thap Bac (Silver Tower), is 25km
from Quy Nhon City. The main tower is 22m high. Standing by Banh It Tower
tourists can enjoy a panoramic scenic view of this fertile of fertile
countryside.
An Khe Pass
:
Historians and researchers beating a path to An Khe have to be quick - it
could have changed its name by the time they get there. Even locals
call it differently and by the various names it has - enjoyed would be the
wrong word - borne over recent history. But now it’s happily
settled, those same local like to think, on simple An Khe, lying north of
the western highlands of Tay Nguyen. But the name change riddle
belies its place in history: especially during the Tay Son Uprising and as
a centre-piece of resistance during the French occupation and the American
conflict.
Older people remember
it better as An Khe Hamlet, in Quy Nhon Town’s Phu Ly District but younger
people know its simple by its modern, and hopefully more settled name,
after countless changes.
It’s near Quy Nhon and Pleiku, reached through the celebrated An Khe Pass,
known as Mang by the Ba Na ethnic people, and the custodian of much of the
history of the 18th century Tay Son Dynasty.
That’s what makes it a place of pilgrimage for tourists and historians
seeking to shed light the uprisings of the time - secrets still to be
found in voluminous documentation.
Overlording it almost is the Ong Binh Mountain, and its beautiful but
tortuous winding road, which failed to deter wartime workers using it to
store their supplies in one of its caves.
The same cave housed hero Mai Xuan Thuong after he was defeated at nearby
Bau Sau and nearby to the southeast stands Ong Nhac Mountain where Tay Son
troops rested during their advance on the North.
Getting to An Khe is less arduous now - a good road sees to that - and the
journey, through paddies and orchards, is no less serene. At one point a
small shrine splendidly marks Mieu Xa, where Nguyen Nhac, Nguyen Hue’s
brother, killed pythons to take the oath of uprising. At Dong Gang
junction to the north, Cuu An and Tu Thuy stand testimony to
long-remembered atrocities committed by French troops.
The military connection extends to Tu Thuy, and its Mo Dieu forest and the
Hoang De, or Emperor, mount, and a field called Co Hau Ya Do, where the
Tay Son troops set up their barracks and depots in preparation for their
general uprising. There Nguyen Nhac based his headquarters while his wife
Ya Do grew rice to supply the men.
Further along
Highway 19, An Khe straddles the road. To its south is further proof of
the military importance of the area through history - the Ong Nhac
Fortress, ruined but still impressive.
At nearby Cha Diem
mountain Tay Son troops hid their weapons and Hien Hach mount was where
they tamed the local wild horses. And in a place of mountains
there’s the simply named Kong - used as a watching post by those same
troops.
A place of
mountains, a place of war - and a place of many names, celebrated in one
poem:
In An Khe, there are Mountain Kong
Hanh Hot forest and the Ba River,
And prairies spreading as far as eyes can see
And orchards laden with juicy fruit all the year round.
Quang Trung Museum :
Quang
Trung Museum was dedicated to Nguyen Hue, a national hero of the 18th
century. It was built in his native Kien My village, Binh Thanh commune,
in Tay Son district, approximately 45 km from Quy Nhon.
Nguyen Hue was one
of the three brothers who led the Tay Son insurrection. In 1788, Nguyen
Hue led his troops from Phu Xuan, now called Hue, to the north in 35 days.
They then defeated the 290,000 Qing invaders, near Thang Long, now Hanoi,
and Nguyen Hue proclaimed himself Emperor Quang Trung in the same year.
Visiting Quang
Trung Museum, tourists will enjoy the music and demonstrations of Vo Tay
Son, a traditional martial art of Binh Dinh. Emperor Quang Trung’s 9th
generation niece playing the 11 battle drums can also be seen.
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