Monday, January 16, 2017

Xuan Huong Lake at Da Lat City

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XUAN HUONG LAKE AT DA LAT


Xuan Huong lake is a beautiful lake located in the center of Da Lat, It is poetic site, attracting both tourists and lovers.
The surface of is as smooth as glass with the reflection of the surrounding pine trees. The road around the lake is also encompassed by pine trees. Visitors can enjoy a glass of fresh sweet water while fishing and resting under ancient conifers, pedal boating on the lake or admiring the lovely architecture of Thuy Ta Pavillion.
Xuan Huong Lake has an area of 32ha and the average depth of 1.5m. It is located on an elevation of 1,478m above sea level and it is considered as the heart of Dalat.
Xuan Huong Lake in former times was the valley with Cam Ly stream running through, is inhabited by Lach residents.
In 1919, according to the suggestion for a plan of building Dalat city of the ambassador, Mr. Cunhac - the civil engineer, Labbe built a dam to retain water and then the stream became a lake. The French called the lake Grand Lac.
In 1921 - 1922, under the command of Envoy Gamier, the dam was built higher and longer.
In 1953, the lake was changed another name, Xuan Huong.
Xuan Huong Lake is with a perimeter around 5 kilometers square, a crescent shape. The water flows are gently rolling as waves. In dry season, the water is ultramarine blue; in rainy season the water is bloodshot. In the past people said that water in Ho Xuan Huong had not swallowed, and it had rarely seen this phenomenon in shallow water.
The name of Xuan Huong, it is said that the name is translated from French noun, someone said that because at both sides of Xuan Huong Lake was planted with fragrant trees and grass emitting around the lake so they took that name. Although there are any hypothetical cases, the name of Xuan Huong is a very lovely name. Xuan Huong lake is beautiful as that name.
Around the lake and the pine hill are the green lawns stretching. Walking along Xuan Huong Lake, you can go to Cu Hill, Yersin Park, and flower Garden of City. You can paddle on the lake watching the sightseeing, or rent the bikes to run along the lake, or stroll in the balmy air of Xuan Huong Lake.
In the early morning and at dusk is the most beautiful time of Xuan Huong Lake. The water of the lake is as a clear mirror is outlined in the city. The wind blows gently in the airy space. Many couples like to stroll around the lake, many friends and families prefer to Xuan Huong Lake to get relaxed and comfortable feeling.
Xuan Huong Lake is the place where the name Dalat came from and it is also the first Beauty-spot of Lam Dong to be recognized as the national-level beauty-spot on November 6th, 1988. The lake is also the place for showing national bicycle racing contest and the place where Lam Dong province holds the cultural tourist events.
With the gorgeous beauty, the jade of Xuan Huong Lake is also the heart of Da Lat. Surrounding the lake is the smooth asphalt road continued with a series of different paths from all over the city. You can eat or go shopping in downtown and leaned your back on untouched grass lawns of Xuan Huong Lake. It seems that this place is a beautiful picture that the Creator has bestowed on Da Lat.
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Sunday, January 15, 2017

The Valley of love at Da Lat

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THE VALLEY OF LOVE AT DA LAT


The Valley of love is surrounded by pine tree covered hills, approximately 5km north of the center of Da Lat, on Phu Dong Thien Vuong street. During Emperor Bao Dai's reign, the valley was called Hoa Binh (peace), but the name was later changed to the Valley Of Love. In 1972, Da Thien Lake was added to the valley. As a result of this enhancement, the valley has become even more poetic and seductive.
The tracks lead to Vong Canh Hill from which The Valley of Love is magnificent view gradually appears in each traveler's eyes. From that hill, they can also see the Langbiang peaks standing out vividly against the blue sky, or continue their adventure to find the Paradise Hill, another ideal destination which is surrounded by beautiful lakes. Overall, the valley is another wonderful addition to your trip to the romantic Dalat. Vong Canh Hill, in which travelers can have the most beautiful look at Mimosa flowers blooming every season, is one of the most beautiful places in Valley of Love. There is also Tieu Son Lam Flower-garden with great and old trees formed in spectacular shapes.
Does it sound like a great rendezvous to say your marriage proposal? Not really, because anyone can possibly fall in love with the landscape before fully listening to what you say. But in case you are really making a proposal, give it a shot. Even if she or he refuses you, at least you will have been to The valley of Love.
Some amusements that tourists can have on this site are horse – riding, jeep safari, motorized and paddle boat on the lake.
Tips once you visit Love Valley
Don’t forget to bring the camera when coming here. These fantastic scenes worth shooting
The site opens daily until 5.00PM, the entrance fee is around $1.









Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Ancient house at Nha Trang | San Ho Viet

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Ancient house at Nha Trang

Phu Vinh ancient village of Vinh Thanh Commune, located about 7km from the Nha Trang center. This village has a history of over 200 years, print in bold Vietnam's ancient architecture.

The first impression when you come to the ancient village is a long-running row "Cau" tree set from the top of the village, far away is ancient roof.

The house was built in the traditional style of the central region of Vietnam, this architecture called "Bat Can Dan" (three compartments with 36 wooden pillars). The old house has a history of over 100 years, the campus houses include house and garden, wooden doors and pillars are carved meticulous, picky.

Most prominent among the old houses here is the home of Nguyen Xuan Hai (72 years old). The house has undergone 6 generation but has not repaired any time. The total area of the house approximately 4,000m2 with landscaping "the river in front and mountains in behind". House was built three compartment, five interconnecting and 36 wooden pillars (This pillar is mainly made from "Xăm Xe" wood, this is a valuable wood only in Central Vietnam, the French think this wood such as "Steel of Annam").

Carved art is clearly expressed through the image of the truss. Truss carved elaborately exquisite images of reindeer, apricot, bird, butterflies, nest bird…
The nave of the house is where worship ancestor, above the ancestor altar with a horizontal lacquered boards with title "moral can propagate everywhere" this is the monitory of ancestor to next generation that moral can influence to everyone, everything, so certain to be ethical.

The roof is low but the house is always ventilation and cool, because it is surrounded by a large orchard.
Feeling loved when you close the eyes for looking at the Chum, Choe, millstone...
Besides visiting ancient house, the guests also have the opportunity to try sitting on the carriage to visit the traditional villages in the area such as mat weaving village, traditional incense making by household, ...

To learn more about ancient house you also can take the City tour for explore around Nha Trang City.
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Thursday, January 5, 2017

The Institute of Oceanography at Nha Trang

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    • THE INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY

The Institute of Oceanography, which was established in 1923, was one of the first centers for scientific research in Viet Nam. It is located on an elevated land next to Cau Da port, about 6km from the center of Nha Trang. Nha Trang is an excellent location for tropical oceanographic research because it is close to the Ocean, of course, and the water is deep.
Symbol of Institute of Oceanography is lionfish.
Oceanographers are divided into five areas:
  1. Aquarium and Mangrove
  2. Large specimen
  3. Artificial reef
  4. Marine resources of the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos
  5. Marine biodiversity
The first is Aquarium and mangrove including tanks and cages of marine organisms such as fish, seals, sea cucumbers, sharks, eels, queen fish, the devil fish, turtles, starfish, corals... the purpose both to visitors learn and use for research.
Next to the storage area and displays more than 20,000 specimens of 4,000 species of marine life including the extinct species.
The highlight of the Institute of Oceanography is the large specimen area because of currently it's on display a huge skeleton whale size 26m long, 3m high with 48 vertebrae fully restored though buried underground 200 years. In addition, it also exhibited the skeleton Dugong are endangered and Crutches Hai (stingray 2 horns) weighs nearly 1 ton.
Next to the display area of Marine resources of the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos, including documents and images.
Coming to the Institute of Oceanography tourists will have a chance to visit the Marine Creature Museum, which shows more than 80.000 sea and freshwater specimens, as well as living creatures that are kept in glass tanks.

 The list of some fish species in the Institute of Oceanography:

 Razorfish - fish live in groups, swimming head downwards helps them camouflage, hiding in the coral reefs or seagrass beds. When in danger, the body of fish moving in the horizontal direction and move with surprising speed.

Blackeye thicklip - fish have very thick lips, the color changes depending on the development of each stage. Adult fish live at depths of about 30 meters, is the main food of krill, polychaete worms and some starfish.

Ptereleotris evides - is gentle, lives in coral reefs, lagoon or bay. Small sized fish, small fish live in herds, grew up living in pairs.

Red Coris Wrasse - colors vary with each stage, they usually bury themselves in the sand during sleep or when in danger.


Tube anemones - also called sea coconut trees. They catch prey using tentacles slender antennae with mucus to catch the creatures hovering above. When in danger, they crouched into the tube to evade.

Hippocampus kuda - is one of the species of fish have high-value in the pharmaceutical, so, the number of serious declines. Like other species of seahorses, the male seahorse has a pouch prior to pregnancy belly and fish hatchery helps mares.

Sea eel - Able to live in saltwater, freshwater, brackish water, likes darkness so often live in burrows, feeding at night. Eel in childhood has willow leaves shaped.

Clown featherback fish -The species is aggressive, territorial defense, but adapted well to the bigger fish.

Black Velvet Angelfish - The species is a gentle, adaptable, longevity.

Lionfish
The fish is very aggressive, likes to eat small fish and oyster meat a day can eat up to 6 fish live.
Colorful, poisonous spines that can sting, deadly, venom will cause pain to death.
Originated in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, Eastern Atlantic and the Caribbean.

Humpback whale skeleton by the people Hai Cuong (Hai Hau, Nam Ha) unearthed while digging on the day 12.08.1994 in the irrigation ditch. The skeleton was buried 1.2 m deep in the field and far from the sea about 4 km, weighing about 10 tons.









Wednesday, January 4, 2017

How to make rice paper from Rice

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How to make rice paper from Rice

There is the theory that the rice paper appeared in the Tran Dynasty
Material: Made from rice flour or wheat flour, water, salt, sesame (Some places to make more flavor it is common to add peanuts, scallions)
How to eat: There are two types of rice paper, a soft and thin rice paper used for rolls, a thicker, more ingredients include sesame, scallions, peanuts for grilling.



Processing process:
- Soak rice: Before milled rice, the rice to be soaked overnight. The grain was soaked to soften, allowing the rice milling process easier, the rice powder will more smooth.
- Milled rice: They often use the miller to grind rice, miller is an instrument made from marble, carved meticulously craft consists of two blocks are stacked, in the heart with a wooden peg to rotate, the inside of the two blocks with small moldings, the purpose of the rice will fall into this moldings, when running mill will create pressure crush the rice to make rice powder form. In this process will be put more water with a ratio of 1: 1 to create a liquid suitable for make rice paper cake later.


- Adding seasoning: Besides spices such as sesame, scallions, salt is the most important spices besides creating salty taste, salt can keep water in rice powder liquid, make the cake when exposed to the sun will not be too dry or cracked.
- Cook rice paper: Rice paper is coated on a stretched fabric surface, covered the pot of boiling water to steam escaping cooked rice paper.

- Drying: After the cake has cooked in this time have another name is "wet rice paper" eat with chili sauce is also very tasty. The wet cake is dried on bamboo rig until dry, the time depends on the weather, so watch the time to check the cake.


Nha Trang Cathedral

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NHA TRANG CATHEDRAL

Located on a hill near the roundabout in Nha Trang city center.
Official name: Kito King Cathedral
The church was started construction on September 1928. Formerly, when the French come here, Nha Trang is still a wilderness, to build the church, France army splits Hon Mot, half west of the mountains that was razed by 500 mines to have 4,500 m2 area for build a church. The construction of the Nha Trang Cathedral was completed in 1934.

With intuitive look would think the church was built of split rock, but actually split rock only used in paving courtyard and road, and the entire wall of the church was built with cement dash. The main priest was Louis Vallet and his colleagues casted this cement dash. One of the special things in architecture is only the roof along the corridors of the church was built of reinforced concrete, whole rest of the chapels were built with bamboo reinforced and lattice girders.

The church was built in Gothic architecture with three distinct sections: the bottom section is the door, in the middle part of the round window to stained glass floral decorated pink, the top section is the corridor and bell tower.
Three large bells provided by the Bourdons Carillons Company in 1934, and big clock that was assembled on the tower in December 1935. The buildings of the Nha Trang Cathedral which is now over 76 years old, are still intact and attract many visitors.

(Passion of Jesus) is modeled on the paintings on the walls. To take advantage of sunlight, designers installation glass of green and red colors on floral roses in the doorway arch, creating soft colors.

Mass is held Monday to Saturday at 5am and 4:30pm and Sunday at 5am to 7am and 4:30pm.
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Monday, January 2, 2017

Ponagar tower Nha Trang

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PONAGAR TOWER NHA TRANG

This group of Cham towers is located on top of a low marble mountain formerly surrounded by the sea. Ponagar Tower is a complex of Cham towers with the architecture common in the eighth century to the thirteenth century, the tower was built in the flourishing period of the Hindu in Champa, which why goddess had Uma shape (wife of Shiva).
The Ponagar complex consists of three floors with a gate tower on the first floor which was totally destroyed. In front of the relic complex are two rows of 10 large pillars and two small pillars on the two sides. In the middle an altar where the Cham people often organize cultural activities and solemn rites on festivals and special occasions. The second floor, called Mandapa (guest house), is the place where pilgrims can rest and prepare before performing rituals. On the third floor, there are four towers, the most beautiful of them were built in 813 and 817 with baked bricks, has a pyramid shape apex. Unfortunately, time and environmental factors have destroyed most of the towers. The Ponagar Tower is the most outstanding and highest one.
One of these four towers is dedicated to Shiva Hindu god. Another is dedicated to Ganesha, whose human body is attached to an elephant head. The largest tower (25m) is dedicated to Lady Po Nagar, or the Goddess Uma, the wife of Shiva. On top of the entrance is a statue of Shiva with four arms sitting on the back of a bull. The exterior of the tower is a masterpiece of chisel carvings of fairy dancers and scenes of hunting, boat racing, and pounding rice into a mortar.
The interior of the tower of is reserved for the worshipping of Goddess Po Nagar, who taught people how to plant rice. It is believed that this was where the villagers held offering rituals.
Legend has it that the ancient goddess Ponagar named Thien Y Ana is created by sponges and the moonlight, she was raised by the old couple since childhood, she grew up and become a beautiful girl, one day she sadness with her father’s cold word, she incarnates in frankincense floating on the sea. Her beauty stirred the heart of the North Sea prince. She married and gave birth to two pretty children. Have the happy life, but she doesn't forget the foster parents, so she decides come back to hometown, sadly her parents died because of old age she broken heart stay in for worship. She helps poor people by teaching them animal husbandry, aquaculture. Until one day has a big particles bird down to pick her up to the heaven, because of thankful the villager build tower, sculpt the statue, kept up to present. Annually from March 20th to the 23rd according to the lunar calendar organize the Thap Ba (Ponagar) Festival to praise the merits of Thien Y Thanh Mau Ana.



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