Ba Den Mountain
Location:
Ba Den Mountain is located 11km Northeast of Tay Ninh Town and 106km from Ho Chi
Minh City, Vietnam.
Characteristics: It is a famous complex of cultural, historical and beautiful
sites covering an area of more than 24km2.
The complex includes three mountains: Heo, Phung and Ba Den, of which the 986m-high Ba Den is the highest peak in the south.
Ba
Den Mountain is also called Black Lady Mountain. According to legends, beautiful
Ly Thi Thien Huong, Black Lady, was forced to marry the son of a rich mandarin
while she fell in love with a poor man who was fighting the aggressors. Rather
than marrying a man she did not love, she threw herself from the mountain.
Several shrines and pagodas were built in the mountain as well as in the caves.
Ba and Hang Pagodas attract many pilgrims during the New Lunar Year and Vu Lan
Festivals.
There
are three ways to reach Ba Temple. If you go on foot, it takes you over one hour
to arrive at the destination. Cable cars take you 20 minutes to cover a distance
of 1200m. The sliding system includes two lines going upward and downward, 1190m
and 1700m in length respectively. It is impressive to take the downward line as
it will take you through lots of hair-raising bends and corners.
Ba Den Mountain was where the headquarters of the liberation force of South
Vietnam were located. During war time, many tough battles were fought in that
area.
Source: Vietnam Administration of Tourism |