In cycling Mekong Delta Tour 3 days with us, we surely you will have the unique experience along the ride, impress the charming culture in the rural villages, know the history to understand about the Vietnamese People and the value foods with their customs via daily life's activities. By bicycle, you will have a different feelings at the attractions, one of those is the Cave Pagoda below:
The Pagoda of Hang
Cave Pagoda is called Chùa Hang in Vietnamese and Kompông Chrây" in Khmer which is located in Chau Thanh, Tra Vinh. It is called "Hang" for the simple reason that its portal is in the form of a cave gate. To go there, you leave the city of Tra Vinh 5km to the South. The pagoda is in the middle of an immense territory of 10 hectares, entirely covered with green forest. The Hang Pagoda is home to thousands of birds and storks, just their singing and the prayers of the monks, you will feel like entering a world far from everything.
Hang pagoda - History, Architecture
The Hang Pagoda was built in 1637. Although it was over 300 years old and was destroyed during the war, thanks to the help of locals, the pagoda is now well reconstructed and more spacious.
The architecture of Hang Pagoda is very special. The main gate of the pagoda turns towards the river while the secondary door is built in the form of a vault. The main palace of the pagoda located on a plain of 3m, is decorated in Indian style with Buddha statues of different sizes.
As part of the pagoda, there is a large school for children, a wooden scup workshop. You can see stumps of trees which, under the skillful and perfected hands of the bonzes of the pagoda, are transformed into statues of animals more astonishing than the others. Many tourists stop there to admire the talent of these monksThe monks are scupter the wooden statues.
Discover the Hang Pagoda through our tour to Tra Vinh from Ho Chi Minh City 3 days
Like other Khmer pagodas, Hang Pagoda plays an important part in the Khmer spiritual life. Not only a place to worship Buddhism, the pagoda is also a cradle to educate and preserve virtue, cultural tradition and the arts.
Thanks to its values, the Hang Pagoda attracts more and more visitors to admire its human and architectural beauty.
The original culture of Khmer combine with the most beautiful backroads in Mekong Delta which will be led by our expert biking guide. To get to Tra Vinh, you should take a Mekong Delta 3 day trip with the price is around 199 USD/person, Vietnam By Bike has a daily departure for joining small group Mekong biking tour 2 or 3 days with the biking distance about 45km per day. Vietnam By Bike is a professional bicycle tour operator who can customize for your private group or family within 12 hours of each day.
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