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Chua Da Trang (White stone Pagoda): O
Loan Lagoon:
Ganh Da Dia
: Looking down on it, visitors often liken it to a gigantic beehive, others as a pile of stone plates. Describing it is easy: pinpointing how it got there an impossibility. For despite a lengthy series of historical, archeological and scientific probes of the cliff’s square kilometer, its formation remains a mystery. Even counting the stone columns has failed to yield an exact figure as exhausted researchers usually call a halt at around 35,000. The stones are 60-80cm in visible height and 20-30cm across and cluster round a small fresh water pond that is fed by underground rivers and never dries up. Not surprisingly researchers find intriguing - and perhaps frustrating - comparison between Ganh Da Dia and half a world away in Northern Ireland and its Giant’s Causeway, one of UNESCO’s Natural Heritage Sites. There, its regularity-sided pillars form a coastal three-mile long carpet stretching out to sea and, some, think, as far as Scotland - 50 miles away. Local legend, and the Irish are as keen on them as the Vietnamese, has it that it is the legacy of two giants who competed to connect the two main lands. Less romantically-minded scientists, some of whom have inspected both, say the true reason for their being is slightly more down to earth - but no less dramatic: a volcanic eruption, several million years ago. That, they say, pushed molten basalt rock up from the earth’s crust where it solidified into the regular forms of both structures. Either way both have stood the test of uncertain Time, standing firm against the relentless force of often-harsh seas.
During the French colonialist, the tower was nearly ruined. At the end of the year 1960, the tower was rebuilt by the administration of Diem’s regime. Nowadays, there is only a flat stone with the high of 1,30m and lotus flower carved at the foot of the stone. At the foot of Nhan mountain, there is another stone on which were 3 ancient letters (the same Phan letter). The stone has square shape, each side is 5m wide. Nhan tower is a symbol for the architectural art of Cham in Phu Yen province. |
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