LONG KHANH – XUAN LOC TOURIST’S ROUTE

1. Thac Troi (God waterfall)

Thac Troi Ecotourism resort is 29 kilometers away from Xuan Loc district center. This is an impressive and neglected mountainous painting, where La Nga River flows on rock steps.

So far, a fruit garden with a total area of 50 hectares nearby the resort and a cottage for board on the river and adventurous games as well as other tourist services have been invested to establish by Xuan Loc People’s Committee.

2. Chua Chan Mountainous Resort:

Travelling along National Road No.1 from Bien Hoa city toward Ha Noi direction, visitors can get access to Chua Chan Mountain in Gia Ray town, Xuan Loc district.

Book entitled ‘Dai Nam Nhat Thong Chi’ reads: “…Chua Chan mountain stands at lofty position, looks down on Da Lao stream, border splitting Long Khanh and Phuoc Binh districts, where there are plenty kinds of rattans and plants, and stone grottos and wells along mountain sides…”.

Chua Chan Mountain with Buu Quang Pagoda (also named Gia Lao Pagoda) is 387 meters high; the hut near its peak attracts many visitors. On festivals and holidays, the place welcomes number of people who go a pilgrimage making the events animating occasions.

Buu Quang pagoda was built at the beginning of the nineteenth century and located a dragon jaw-shaped rock with its main temple domed. The whole structure complex is based on natural grottos showing unique feature among the grandiose and forbidden forests.

Suoi Tien (legendary stream) is limpid flow; gurgles for year and the mystical three-root banyan tree are loyal witness for legend transmitted throughout generations in this mountainous region. At the height of over 600 meters, visitors are free to contemplate charming natural sight and feel relaxed after a long hard journey.

Chua Chan Mountain today stores Dong Nai people’s revolutionary vestiges throughout two Resistance Wars, a war base of Xuan Loc district and Buu Hung is a an army ordinance which had hidden great number of soldiers and revolution leaders during the Wars.

3. Han Gon Sepulcher:

From Long Khanh districts along National Road No.1, several kilometers from Tan Phong T-junction in Xuan Tan commune (Long Khanh), along National Road No.56 toward Ba Ria-Vung Tau direction about 3 kilometers, Han Gon Ancestral Tomb appear in front of visitors. In 1910, French colonists came and established Ruber plantations, deforested and discovered Han Gon Ancestral Tomb.

Size: the tomb is 4.20 meters long, 2.70 meters wide and 1.60 meters high; constituted by 6 huge granites assembling together weighed 50 tons. The rocks join together via a system of carved slots as cover and floor. Two 7.5 meter-high granite columns  stand at two edges of the tomb with cross-section of 0.4 metersx1.10 meters and ten heaps of sand with pyramid section are ranged from 3 meters to 4,10 meters. Hang Gon Sepulcher possesses unusual big size so it is also known as Cu Thach (Cu means Big and Thach rock).

According to archaeologists, the tomb was built 2,000 years ago and the granite used to build up the tomb only exist in Da Lat or Phan Rang. It is a wonder that how these extremely heavy rocks could be carried on long way there without roads and vehicles.

In 1992, Dong Nai Museum restored the Cu Thach Han Gon in an effort to preserve a cultural heritage and the sepulcher has been recognized a national historical cultural relic this year.

The person who was buried in the sepulcher may be ancestry of Ma, Ch’ro or Xtieng ethnic groups in Southeast Vietnam. Today Han Gon sepulcher still keeps its mystery that archaeologists have not discovered yet.