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Flew into Danang this morning and our first stop was at the Cham Museum.The Museum of Cham Sculpture has nearly 2000 large and small
sculptures. Of these, only 288 are on display inside the museum, 187 objects
in the garden and more than 1.200 objects are reserved in the
storehouse. Most of the sculptures in the museum are original and mainly
of three kinds of materials, including sandstone, terracotta and
bronze. The majority are made of sandstone with different art styles displaying the once glorious Champa culture. Most of the sculptures date from the 12th to the 15th
century.
Then it was off the the Marble Mountains which for me was a first. I've gone past them on previous visits to Vietnam but have never stopped to take a look. The Mable Mountains are considered "The Landscape of the Southern
Sky” (Nam Thien Danh Thang). According to the Yin and Yang theory on the
five basic elements of the earth, it is called the god's gift to
mankind. You can visit the
pagodas but also enjoy the poetic beauty of nature. The caves inside the
Marble Mountains are a like a mysterious other world. So much to see and experience that you would never know from just looking.
We then headed down the coast to what is infamous to Westerners as "China Beach" from the movie Good Morning Vietnam- to the locals it is known as Xuan Thieu beach which is 3km south of Nam O beach - a place-name linked with the
historical event in March 1965 when the brigade No.9 of the
US marine forces entered the city to start the strategy of "local war"
in Vietnam. The beach was set up as a huge military complex used by US soldiers and became a US military zone with an airport for field combat and storage of
military supplies as well as infrastructure such as roads, ports, public works and communication stations.. The
US troops called Xuan Thieu 'Red Beach”. This may be owing to visual
feeling when they saw at dawn and sunset and the red was reflected from
the sea.
Xuan Thieu beach is currently clean, beautiful and unchanged with white and silky sand and green water. However it seems that "progress" is coming with much of the land pegged out by the big hotel chains for the construction of future resorts. Its a catch-22 situation really....the community need the tourism but the tourism is likely to wipe out the pristine nature of the very place people have come to visit. I'm glad I have seen it now....
After a very busy day we then headed too one of my favourite places in the world - the town of Hoi An - where we settled into out hotel for the night. An early night so I'm all refreshed to hit the town tomorrow..........
sculptures. Of these, only 288 are on display inside the museum, 187 objects
in the garden and more than 1.200 objects are reserved in the
storehouse. Most of the sculptures in the museum are original and mainly
of three kinds of materials, including sandstone, terracotta and
bronze. The majority are made of sandstone with different art styles displaying the once glorious Champa culture. Most of the sculptures date from the 12th to the 15th
century.
Then it was off the the Marble Mountains which for me was a first. I've gone past them on previous visits to Vietnam but have never stopped to take a look. The Mable Mountains are considered "The Landscape of the Southern
Sky” (Nam Thien Danh Thang). According to the Yin and Yang theory on the
five basic elements of the earth, it is called the god's gift to
mankind. You can visit the
pagodas but also enjoy the poetic beauty of nature. The caves inside the
Marble Mountains are a like a mysterious other world. So much to see and experience that you would never know from just looking.
We then headed down the coast to what is infamous to Westerners as "China Beach" from the movie Good Morning Vietnam- to the locals it is known as Xuan Thieu beach which is 3km south of Nam O beach - a place-name linked with the
historical event in March 1965 when the brigade No.9 of the
US marine forces entered the city to start the strategy of "local war"
in Vietnam. The beach was set up as a huge military complex used by US soldiers and became a US military zone with an airport for field combat and storage of
military supplies as well as infrastructure such as roads, ports, public works and communication stations.. The
US troops called Xuan Thieu 'Red Beach”. This may be owing to visual
feeling when they saw at dawn and sunset and the red was reflected from
the sea.
Xuan Thieu beach is currently clean, beautiful and unchanged with white and silky sand and green water. However it seems that "progress" is coming with much of the land pegged out by the big hotel chains for the construction of future resorts. Its a catch-22 situation really....the community need the tourism but the tourism is likely to wipe out the pristine nature of the very place people have come to visit. I'm glad I have seen it now....
After a very busy day we then headed too one of my favourite places in the world - the town of Hoi An - where we settled into out hotel for the night. An early night so I'm all refreshed to hit the town tomorrow..........
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