HA NAM – Visitors can visit Quan Am, Phap Chu, Tam The, or Ngoc pagodas and immerse themselves in the peaceful landscape of the country.
Tam Chuc is the largest pagoda in Vietnam, located in Ba Sao town and Kha Phong commune, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province. The pagoda is about 60 km from the center of Hanoi.
To move from the parking lot to the temple, visitors can choose to go by boat or tram. The boat ticket price is 200,000 VND / person, the electric scooter is 90,000 VND / person.
If traveling by boat, visitors can enjoy the majestic landscape and visit Tam Chuc communal house. Boat journey about 50 minutes. If visiting in the time frame from 16:30 – 18:30, you can enjoy a tea party and watch the sunset.
Tam Chuc Dinh worships Dinh Tien Hoang De, Queen of the Dinh Dynasty: Duong Thi Nguyet and the god Bach Ma. According to legend, before in the war to suppress the 12 warlords, Dinh Bo Linh came here to recruit soldiers. When the king won the battle and was crowned emperor, the king ordered the temple to be built here.
Tam Chuc communal house connects with Tam Chuc pagoda by a bridge across Luc Ngan lake. This is also the check-in point that many young people love.
After the boat docked, visitors will go through works such as Tam Quan gate, columnar garden, Quan Am temple, Phap Chu palace, Tam The palace and Jade pagoda. Usually, it takes about 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours to tour the entire property.
Column garden is the pillars restored like national treasures of Nhat Tru pagoda, Hoa Lu ancient capital, Ninh Binh. There are 32 canal columns 13.5 m high, 2 m wide, weighing about 200 tons.
“This is my first time coming to Tam Chuc Pagoda, a massive and large structure that makes me feel so small. I have never been able to wear ao dai in such a beautiful scenery, really like the cool feeling and peaceful place of this place, “said Tuyet Le, a tourist.
The first temple visitors come to visit is Quan Am Temple. There is a statue of Quan Am Bodhisattva made of monolithic bronze weighing 100 tons.
The inner wall of the palaces at Tam Chuc is built with stone reliefs depicting the Buddha’s stories.
Tam The Palace is 39 m high, floor 5,400 m2 wide, enough for 5,000 Buddhists to worship at the same time. In the palace, there are 3 bronze Buddha statues representing “Past, present, future”. Each statue weighs more than 200 tons, behind each statue is a lotus leaf inlaid with gold.
At night, the resort wears a magical beauty when the lights are turned on.
Photo: Ngan Duong, Vietravel