Elephant Mountain
Through Kien An
district, visitors will see Mountain Elephant (An Lao district). Mountain
Elephant looks like a huge elephant lying between paddy field and blue sky,
with an area of more 1km2, 145m high reflected in Lach Tray river.
Traces of
historical man of Hung king's time - the nation builder can be found, of which
Dong Son bronze sword and other bronze relics are most special. On 16th century
Mac Dang Dung garrisoned at Mountain Elephant to resist Le kings, Trinh lords.
Perhaps insurgent troops had been going through a rough road filled with
sunlight on the top of Mountain Chi Lai to fairy chess board? Blue stoned
footsteps leading into the Hong Voi cave (elephant throat cave), Tram fish
cave, Chep fish cave, Be cave, Chan cave, Dau Dong Quan cave... witnessed
footprint trace of many generations.
A far-away sound of
Wooden Bell of Long Hoa pagoda in a quiet atmosphere takes us into Buddhist
heaven. In addition, Mountain Elephant was the place where Phan Ba Vanh set up
his flag and rose up in arms to oppose Nguyen Dynasty in 1825. Traces of French
colony barrack namely Tuong Son which had been leveled off by Cu Binh insurgent
troop in just one night of November 1888 is obvious... History of Mountain
Elephant guerilla team is still there...