Huong pagoda is located in Hương Sơn commune in Ha Tay provonce’s Mỹ Đức district, about seventy-five kilometers southwest of Hanoi. Huong Son’s mountains, rivers and forests make it unique in the great plains of northern Vietnam. This complex of pagodas is set amdidst mountains, forest, lakes and caves surrounded by vast green olains of rice. Yên stream flows between two mountain only for about three kilometers; however, visitors enjoying a boat ride through the surrounding landscape may feel that this stream is endless.
Small boats carrying pilgrims crowd the stream during the festival season. Visitor pass karst forms, many of which are named for animals, such as Phoneix mountain and Chèo mountain which resembles an Indian python. Ngũ Nhạc mountain houses Trình temple, where visitors can stop and burn incense for the God of the mountain. Before reaching Trò wharf, the boat pass by Chiêng and Ông Sư mountain, Sơn Thủy Hữu Tình cave, Trấu cave, Hội brigde and Dâu valley.
The boat the stops at Bến Trò, where the brook seems to expand as if embracing an earthcum-limestone mount topped by Thiên Trù pagoda. Built at the end of the seventeenth century, Thien Trù pagoda has many poems inscribed on its stone walls. It bell tower which is 8.2 meters tall is shaped like a lotus flower.
Small boats carrying pilgrims crowd the stream during the festival season. Visitor pass karst forms, many of which are named for animals, such as Phoneix mountain and Chèo mountain which resembles an Indian python. Ngũ Nhạc mountain houses Trình temple, where visitors can stop and burn incense for the God of the mountain. Before reaching Trò wharf, the boat pass by Chiêng and Ông Sư mountain, Sơn Thủy Hữu Tình cave, Trấu cave, Hội brigde and Dâu valley.
The boat the stops at Bến Trò, where the brook seems to expand as if embracing an earthcum-limestone mount topped by Thiên Trù pagoda. Built at the end of the seventeenth century, Thien Trù pagoda has many poems inscribed on its stone walls. It bell tower which is 8.2 meters tall is shaped like a lotus flower.
Thien Tru Pagoda
Visitors can follow a small path from Thiên Trù pagoda, turn right and then continue for about a kilometer to Thiên Sơn pagoda, which was built to worship Bodhisattva Quan Âm and is on a high mountain in Núi Tiên grotto, has stalactites that can be tapped to make mucisal sounds.
Visitors can continue along the path to the Hương Tích pagoda and Grotto, about a kilometer and a half from Giải Oan. Many consider Hương Tích to be Vienam’s most picturesque cave, it is deep within a mountain and about 120 steps from the opening, which looks like the mouth of dragon. Inscribed on the gate is “Nam Thiên Đệ Nhất Động” (the most beautiful cave in the South).
Visitors can also see Tuyết Sơn mountain and from its summit, take in a panorama of the Hương Sơn area with its many rivers and brooks crossing the landscape and view the stone walls that follow one another like a long rampart. In spring, the apricot trees thriving in valleys bloom, adorning the landscape in white. Hương Sơn and Hương pagoda have been the subject of many songs, poems and paintings. The Hương pagoda’s spring festival attracts tens of thousands of tourists and pilgrims, who come to admire the area’s beautiful landscape and implore the spirits for goodluck, wealth and happiness.
Visitors can continue along the path to the Hương Tích pagoda and Grotto, about a kilometer and a half from Giải Oan. Many consider Hương Tích to be Vienam’s most picturesque cave, it is deep within a mountain and about 120 steps from the opening, which looks like the mouth of dragon. Inscribed on the gate is “Nam Thiên Đệ Nhất Động” (the most beautiful cave in the South).
Visitors can also see Tuyết Sơn mountain and from its summit, take in a panorama of the Hương Sơn area with its many rivers and brooks crossing the landscape and view the stone walls that follow one another like a long rampart. In spring, the apricot trees thriving in valleys bloom, adorning the landscape in white. Hương Sơn and Hương pagoda have been the subject of many songs, poems and paintings. The Hương pagoda’s spring festival attracts tens of thousands of tourists and pilgrims, who come to admire the area’s beautiful landscape and implore the spirits for goodluck, wealth and happiness.
Huong Pagoda
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