Around 72km from HCM City, Long Khanh Town in Dong Nai Province attracts visitors for its fruit gardens and ancient tombs. The gardens offer avocado, strawberry, rambutan, durian, jackfruit, and mangosteen from May to September.
Around 72km from HCM City, Long Khanh Town in Dong Nai Province attracts visitors for its fruit gardens and ancient tombs. The gardens offer avocado, strawberry, rambutan, durian, jackfruit, and mangosteen from May to September.
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Because of its soil classification, Long Khánh’s fruits are diverse and of high quality.
Famous gardens include Phung Thanh Tam and Cat Anh in Binh Loc Commune, and Ba Ba Vui and Anh Cuong in Hang Gon Commune.
Along the streets, many café garden shops provide visitors with a fresh outdoor atmosphere and traditional dishes.
Two of the town’s famous ancient sites are Hang Gon Tomb and Tran Bien Literature Temple, both special national heritage sites.
Hang Gon has a unique architecture rarely found elsewhere in Vietnam or the world. It dates back to between 150BCE and 24CE, according to experts.
It was discovered by French civil engineer J. Bouchot in 1927 during the construction of a road from Long Khanh to Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.
The rectangular shaped tomb is 4.2m long, 2.7m wide and 1.6m high. It is made of huge granite stone slabs weighing 40 tonnes each.
It is surrounded by many 7.5m-high granite pillars.
Tran Bien was built in 1715 in Buu Long Ward in Biên Hòa City, and has been recognised as the first literature temple built in the south.
The temple was destroyed by the French colonialists in 1861. The province rebuilt the 15-ha temple to mark the 300th anniversary of the Bien Hoa-Dong Nai Region in 1998.
(Source:VNS)
