Stone island Đá Bạc
Thứ hai, 20/03/2006 | 14:10 GMT+7
Visitors to Cà Mau cape, the tip-most of the fatherland, will be interested to view (or riding on luxury canoes) river network from city to distant villages or famous islands: Chuối, Đá Bạc… Landscape Đá Bạc is in Khánh Bình Tây, Ông Đốc district, Cà Mau city on an area of 10ha, It’s one of Cà Mau most attractive destinations.
Đá Bạc has 3 islands, close to the coast with 4 mounts: two are high and two low off-shore rounded by blocks of stones. The name Đá Bạc is popularly known due to levels of stones. There’s an earthly hill, the top-ground is 50m2, so-called “sân Tiên” or “fairies ground”. It’s said to be venue of fairies coming here to have a bath. There is also a flat rectangular stone along the coast named “fairies bridge” or “cầu Tiên”.
The seascape is poetic and lofty. The road round Đá Bạc is concretized by Cà Mau Tourism Service, a house-on-water designed after a communal house (nhà rông) of the central highlanders. A round hall on the sea linked to sea-shore by a 100m-long bridge. Seafood is always ready to be found.
Looking for swallow’s nest is a favourite game, or catching “hàu” a kind of snail is interesting. When the sea is rough, fishing boats take shelters in Đá Bạc, very convenient for fishermen.
At the mount-top, there is a pagoda “Hưng Huệ” of Việt Nam buddhism. It’s also dispensary for fishermen. Đá Bạc is an ideal destination of the nature in harmony with the sea atmosphere in the Southern tip of Việt Nam.
THU HẰNG