Lam Dong has a very special point which is its extremely rich and attractive tourism resources. No place or countryside lacks attraction for tourists. And Don Duong is a very potential tourist destination, if there is exploitation, investment, and attention... from the government, people and businesses...
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| Spillway of Da Nhim Hydropower Reservoir |
• UNIQUE HUMAN RESOURCES
If anyone has ever seen a Churu woman swinging drumsticks, dancing with gongs, lifting a gourd flute… they will feel the strong “fire” transmitted from her. That is Mrs. Tou Neh MaBio (Lac Xuan commune), a folk artist known as the keeper of the “fire” of Churu culture, the one who “revives” dances, a living museum, the queen who revives Arya dance… although normally, she looks just like other Churu women.
Her house has become a classroom, teaching young people - from little girls and boys who know how to play gongs, blow pipes, play drums, sing and dance to the melodies of their ethnic group... Up to today, the art troupe that she initiated, passed on the "fire" and passed on the profession, has many young people standing shoulder to shoulder with the older artisans in the gong ensemble, in festivals, and are deepening the graceful steps in the traditional dances of the Churu people... together with Mrs. Ma Bio, preserving, collecting, restoring, performing, promoting and passing on the traditional folk dances of the Churu people...
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| The Ancestral Temple of the Four-Way Monastery |
Mr. Ya Tuat - a silver ring maker (in Tu Tra commune) is preserving the very rare traditional silver ring making profession of the Churu people. Since the age of 17, he has followed his uncle to learn the silver ring making profession and has kept it up to now for nearly 40 years... According to the Churu people's concept, silver rings are considered a sacred engagement object between a girl and a boy, an indispensable item in every wedding. But over time, those who know how to make rings and are patient, careful and meticulous enough to make silver rings with sophisticated patterns on each ring are getting fewer and fewer... Mr. Ya Tuat is the 6th generation descendant of the silver ring making family of the Churu people. Currently, Mr. Ya Tuat's son has also learned the silver ring making profession from his father to continue.
Krăng Gọ pottery village (in Pró - now Quảng Lập commune) is also a unique craft village. Many years ago, only Mrs. Mali's sisters still made pottery because they missed the traditional craft of their ancestors and wanted to preserve the craft for their children and grandchildren. But fortunately, thanks to the government's policy of preserving the craft village and the establishments that placed orders for the people, in recent years, the pottery craft has been maintained and taught to children and grandchildren, and there are more young people who know how to make pottery...
The raw material for making pottery is a special type of clay that only “professional” people know. The soil is dried, then crushed, sifted to get only the powdered soil, kneaded thoroughly with water, and dried just enough to mold the objects... The Krang Go people mold pottery entirely by hand, without using a turntable. After molding, they dry and adjust the product for 2 days, then let it dry completely, then pile firewood around to burn it instead of firing it in a kiln... Krang Go pottery products are the result of the aesthetic sense, skillful hands, meticulousness and patience of the Churu people.
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| Mr. Ya Tuat guides tourists in making silver rings. |
• DISTINCTIVE HERITAGE RESOURCES
Ka Don Church (Ka Don Commune) won two international Sacred Architecture awards: the design award and the construction award. The church was designed in a simple spirit, not many colors, little decoration, with natural beauty, modesty, blending with nature and imbued with Churu culture... After more than 4 years of construction, Ka Don Church was officially completed in July 2014, with the church's roof inspired by the roof of the Central Highlands communal house, stylized like a mother hen incubating her chicks. The main construction materials of the church are pine wood for the walls, ceiling, partitions, tables and chairs... with glass, stone and red tile roof.
Visiting Ka Don Church, in addition to admiring the unique architecture and enjoying the peaceful space in the cool green pine forest, visitors also have the opportunity to learn about the unique indigenous culture at the Churu Museum, which displays a collection of cultural artifacts and Churu people built by Father Nguyen Duc Ngoc during his time in charge of the parish. If lucky on Sunday, the Gospel, visitors can enjoy the fun space right in the church yard with grocery and food stalls, and an unlimited stage where the parish priest, Father Tran Quoc Hung Long, is the drummer and singer...
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| Ms. MaBio (second from left, front row) and artisans, Churu youth attending the Gia Lai Gong Festival (2017) |
The Tu Giac Nguyen Pagoda is a 100-year-old ancient temple located on a hill halfway up the D'ran and Ngoan Muc passes, bearing the traditional features of Vietnamese architectural art, with the foundation of "Ba Xam Pagoda" (1923). In 1925, the pagoda was rebuilt with bricks and tile roofs, with nine pillars in the main hall, so it is also called "Nine-Cot Pagoda". In 1939, the pagoda was granted the Royal Decree by the King, so it is called "Tru Giac Nguyen Pagoda". In 1976, Venerable Thich Phap Chieu came to preside over the temple and started the reconstruction. The new pagoda, together with the Trung Pagoda and the large Thuong Palace, created a spacious pagoda on a large plot of land, opposite the Da Nhim Hydropower Plant and D'ran town...
Da Nhim Lake is a water storage project from the confluence of the Krong Let River into the Da Nhim River, serving the Da Nhim Hydroelectric Plant. Da Nhim Lake, at an altitude of over 1,000 m above sea level, is 11 - 12 km² wide and has a capacity of 165 million m³ of water to supply water to the plant. The dam of the lake is nearly 1,500 m long, nearly 38 m high, the bottom of the dam is 180 m wide, the dam surface is 6 m wide. At the bottom of the lake, there is a 5 km long hydro-pressure tunnel through the mountain connecting to two 45° slope alloy hydro-pressure pipes, 2,040 m long and over 1 m in diameter each. Water from Da Nhim Lake flows down through this hydro-pressure system to the power plant with 4 turbines on the Krong Pha River (Pha River) at an altitude of 210 m. Therefore, going up Song Pha pass from Ninh Thuan direction, you can see 2 giant vertical water pipes...
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Don Duong is a famous area for commercial vegetables and dairy farming, but in reality, Don Duong cuisine has not been exploited and invested in. However, on the journey to discover Don Duong, who knows, visitors might be as lucky as us, when they get to enjoy fermented rice wine with crispy fried frogs at Mr. Ya Tuat's house, or drink rice wine with grilled buffalo meat or sun-dried beef at Mrs. Mabio's house, or eat grilled spring rolls with fruit wine at a friend's house in D'ran town... Maybe, those dishes sound very normal in many places, but the main thing that makes them special when enjoyed in Don Duong is because they are processed and marinated from the freshest ingredients, so they have a completely different sweetness, aroma and richness!
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| Mrs. Mali completes ceramic product |
In addition, somewhere on the tour of Don Duong, visitors will encounter clear streams amidst the old forest canopy at the source of the water, a patch of eggplant flowers, a garden of golden mustard, or a patch of carrots with tiny white flowers...; not to mention the season of wild sunflowers in late autumn, the season of purple flowers in early summer... Then, the villages, the lost tribes on the alluvial plains of the Dong Nai River, the traces of the Cham people on their journey to the South... will be stories that will last all night, if you are lucky enough to travel to Don Duong with an ethnologist!...
That is also the very unique identity of beautiful Don Duong!
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