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Tay Ninh
Located in Eastern of the South, Tay Ninh shares border with Cambodia on the north with 240km boundary, Binh Duong and Binh Phuoc provinces on the east, Ho Chi Minh City and Long An Province on the south.
On the north, there is Ba Den Mountain, 986m in height. On the south, terrain is quite flat. The province has Vam Co Dong and Sai Gon rivers and Dau Tieng Lake.
The weather is hot, humid around year with annual average temperature of 27.5ºC, annual rainfall of 1,724mm. The dry season lasts from December to April and the rainy season lasts from May to November.
Coming to Tay Ninh, tourists are able to visit Ba Den Mountain, a famous complex of cultural and historical sites and beauty spots, and Binh Thanh Cham Tower, a monument of the Oc-Eo culture. Every year, Ba Den Mountain Festival attracts many pilgrims come to pray, sightseeing and enjoy the entertainment.
Tay Ninh is home of Cao Dai religion with Tay Ninh Cao Dai Temple, a complex of Great Temple, Chanh Mon Gate, four towers and Mother-of-Buddha Temple. The province also is base of revolution of South Vietnam during resistance against the Americans.
Tay Ninh Town is 99km from Ho Chi Minh City, 224km from Vung Tau, 129km from Bien Hoa. There are Moc Bai and Xa Mat border gates to Cambodia. Moc Bai Market is trade center of Vietnamese and Cambodian.
Attractions in Tay Ninh:
Ba Den mountain
Ba Den Mountain is the historical relic community and the famous landscape of Southern area. The system of the cave and the natural landscape combined with the religious architecture have decorated the mountain with the natural harmonious feature. It really becomes the place coming back to the root source, the spirit life and the people's revolutionary tradition. The relic is located on the territory of the three villages Ninh Son – Tan Binh – Thanh Tan, Tay Ninh town. It was recognized by Ministry of Culture and Information as the cultural historical relics at Decision No. 100/VH-QĐ dated 21 January 1989.
Ba Den Mountain Relic Population is 24km2 wide; the highest area is in Southern area (986m). The mountain is structured by the stone of Granit, Granodionit, thus, the peak is quite sharp and its ground is quite slope with 03 peaks: Ba Den mountain of 986m, Phung mountain of 372m and Heo mountain of 335m. Lady Temple system in the mountain has Low pagoda, Medium pagoda, Top pagoda, Cave pagoda and some caves are repaired by the Buddhist monks as the worshipping place as Thanh Long cave, Ong Ho cave, Ba Co cave, Ba Tuan cave, Thien Thai cave, Ong Ta cave etc.
Located at the town area and 11km far from Tay Ninh town toward East- North and 100km from Ho Chi Minh city toward West, Ba Den mountain has the coordinate from 106007'41” to 106011'06” Southern longitude and from 11021'06'' to 11024' Northern latitude.
Ba Den mountain spring festival is annually organized on the beginning of the lunar year. At this place, the natural landscape is grandiose; the climate is pure with the system of the cave, primitive forest, the cultural village etc. This has created Ba Den Mountain to become an attractive tourist site. Every year, it has attracted more one million of tourists. From the mountain foot, the tourist can go up and down Ba pagoda by the cable car system, the skidding through or the mountain climbing.
The detailed plan of Nui Ba tourist site has been approved by the province people's committee in June 1999.
Tay Ninh calls for the investors to exploit Ba Den Mountain tourist site with the preferential conditions
The Cao Dai Holy See
Caodaism is a new Vietnamese faith. It originated from Ngo Van Chieu, a minor civil servant on Phu Quoc Island, in the early 1920s. During a séance, he was contacted by a spirit called the Cao Dai (high position) who handed down a creed and symbol – the ‘all-seeing eye’.
The ‘religion’ began to take off after a second series of revelations by the Cao Dai. He told Ngo Van Chieu that he had already manifested itself to humanity using Confucius, Christ, Mohammed, and other vehicles to propagate belief structures appropriate to the varying world cultures, but was disenchanted by the intolerance and hatred between followers of the different creeds.
It proposed to dispense with living envoys and reveal a unified and universal religion – the ‘Third Alliance’ - through ‘saints’, spirit intermediaries such as Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill, Victor Hugo and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Despite the proposed universality of the Cao Dai’s doctrine, the religion was mainly an amalgam of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, with a few aspects of Christianity and Islam. The creed worships a universal god symbolised by the all-seeing eye, and lays down five commandments. The sole of those who comply will be elevated to a higher plane of existence through reincarnation. The organisation of the new faith borrowed heavily from the Catholic Church's hierarchical structure.
Caodaism was recognised by the French in 1926, selected its first ‘Pope’, and established a ‘Holy See’ in Tay Ninh province. This was a large, flamboyant temple surrounded by a school, a hospital and other support buildings.
By 1930, Caodaism had garnered well over half a million converts and was becoming a powerful force in the land. It adopted a more politically oriented outlook, and set up a private army. Although the Cao Dai ‘army’ initially fought alongside the Viet Minh against the French, but turned against their erstwhile allies after the colonialists were expelled.
The upshot was that the structure of Cao Dai, already weakened by conflict, was dismantled by the communists after the liberation of the South. Its leaders were imprisoned or exiled, ant its lands and property confiscated.
A decade later, most Cao Dai property was returned, and the religion resumed its steady growth, albeit under tight state control.
The Cao Dai Holy See is well worth a visit. The temple, dominated by the all-seeing eye, is an architectural wonder, a hotchpotch of styles from its contributing religions and ornamented in brilliant colours.
The daily service is impressive. The worshippers wear robes of different hues denoting their function and status, and kneel in blocks in the nave to genuflect and pray while acolytes perform complex rituals.
Visitors are welcomed to the service, but must remove their shoes at the door. There are separate entries men and women. Photography is permitted, but it’s polite not to subject the worshippers to a barrage of flashlights. After the service, visitors can wander around the nave, but are requested not to go beyond the pink candy-stripe pillars.
The Holy See is near Tay Ninh town, about a hundred kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City. The journey takes two to three hours.
Dau Tieng Reservoir
Dau Tieng Lake is located on the way to Tay Ninh, Cao Dai Great Temple, and Ba Den Mountain, 20 km from Tay Ninh. The lake covers 27,000 ha and has a water reserve of 1,5 billion m3, irrigating Tay Ninh province as well neighbouring provinces. Dau Tieng Lake’s beautiful landscape of mountains, its mysterious islets, and its fresh and pure atmosphere shall give visitors an agreeable feeling. Visitors shall also appreciate the food specialties of the locality.
On the north, there is Ba Den Mountain, 986m in height. On the south, terrain is quite flat. The province has Vam Co Dong and Sai Gon rivers and Dau Tieng Lake.
The weather is hot, humid around year with annual average temperature of 27.5ºC, annual rainfall of 1,724mm. The dry season lasts from December to April and the rainy season lasts from May to November.
Coming to Tay Ninh, tourists are able to visit Ba Den Mountain, a famous complex of cultural and historical sites and beauty spots, and Binh Thanh Cham Tower, a monument of the Oc-Eo culture. Every year, Ba Den Mountain Festival attracts many pilgrims come to pray, sightseeing and enjoy the entertainment.
Tay Ninh is home of Cao Dai religion with Tay Ninh Cao Dai Temple, a complex of Great Temple, Chanh Mon Gate, four towers and Mother-of-Buddha Temple. The province also is base of revolution of South Vietnam during resistance against the Americans.
Tay Ninh Town is 99km from Ho Chi Minh City, 224km from Vung Tau, 129km from Bien Hoa. There are Moc Bai and Xa Mat border gates to Cambodia. Moc Bai Market is trade center of Vietnamese and Cambodian.
Attractions in Tay Ninh:
Ba Den mountain
Ba Den Mountain is the historical relic community and the famous landscape of Southern area. The system of the cave and the natural landscape combined with the religious architecture have decorated the mountain with the natural harmonious feature. It really becomes the place coming back to the root source, the spirit life and the people's revolutionary tradition. The relic is located on the territory of the three villages Ninh Son – Tan Binh – Thanh Tan, Tay Ninh town. It was recognized by Ministry of Culture and Information as the cultural historical relics at Decision No. 100/VH-QĐ dated 21 January 1989.
Ba Den Mountain Relic Population is 24km2 wide; the highest area is in Southern area (986m). The mountain is structured by the stone of Granit, Granodionit, thus, the peak is quite sharp and its ground is quite slope with 03 peaks: Ba Den mountain of 986m, Phung mountain of 372m and Heo mountain of 335m. Lady Temple system in the mountain has Low pagoda, Medium pagoda, Top pagoda, Cave pagoda and some caves are repaired by the Buddhist monks as the worshipping place as Thanh Long cave, Ong Ho cave, Ba Co cave, Ba Tuan cave, Thien Thai cave, Ong Ta cave etc.
Located at the town area and 11km far from Tay Ninh town toward East- North and 100km from Ho Chi Minh city toward West, Ba Den mountain has the coordinate from 106007'41” to 106011'06” Southern longitude and from 11021'06'' to 11024' Northern latitude.
Ba Den mountain spring festival is annually organized on the beginning of the lunar year. At this place, the natural landscape is grandiose; the climate is pure with the system of the cave, primitive forest, the cultural village etc. This has created Ba Den Mountain to become an attractive tourist site. Every year, it has attracted more one million of tourists. From the mountain foot, the tourist can go up and down Ba pagoda by the cable car system, the skidding through or the mountain climbing.
The detailed plan of Nui Ba tourist site has been approved by the province people's committee in June 1999.
Tay Ninh calls for the investors to exploit Ba Den Mountain tourist site with the preferential conditions
The Cao Dai Holy See
Caodaism is a new Vietnamese faith. It originated from Ngo Van Chieu, a minor civil servant on Phu Quoc Island, in the early 1920s. During a séance, he was contacted by a spirit called the Cao Dai (high position) who handed down a creed and symbol – the ‘all-seeing eye’.
The ‘religion’ began to take off after a second series of revelations by the Cao Dai. He told Ngo Van Chieu that he had already manifested itself to humanity using Confucius, Christ, Mohammed, and other vehicles to propagate belief structures appropriate to the varying world cultures, but was disenchanted by the intolerance and hatred between followers of the different creeds.
It proposed to dispense with living envoys and reveal a unified and universal religion – the ‘Third Alliance’ - through ‘saints’, spirit intermediaries such as Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill, Victor Hugo and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Despite the proposed universality of the Cao Dai’s doctrine, the religion was mainly an amalgam of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, with a few aspects of Christianity and Islam. The creed worships a universal god symbolised by the all-seeing eye, and lays down five commandments. The sole of those who comply will be elevated to a higher plane of existence through reincarnation. The organisation of the new faith borrowed heavily from the Catholic Church's hierarchical structure.
Caodaism was recognised by the French in 1926, selected its first ‘Pope’, and established a ‘Holy See’ in Tay Ninh province. This was a large, flamboyant temple surrounded by a school, a hospital and other support buildings.
By 1930, Caodaism had garnered well over half a million converts and was becoming a powerful force in the land. It adopted a more politically oriented outlook, and set up a private army. Although the Cao Dai ‘army’ initially fought alongside the Viet Minh against the French, but turned against their erstwhile allies after the colonialists were expelled.
The upshot was that the structure of Cao Dai, already weakened by conflict, was dismantled by the communists after the liberation of the South. Its leaders were imprisoned or exiled, ant its lands and property confiscated.
A decade later, most Cao Dai property was returned, and the religion resumed its steady growth, albeit under tight state control.
The Cao Dai Holy See is well worth a visit. The temple, dominated by the all-seeing eye, is an architectural wonder, a hotchpotch of styles from its contributing religions and ornamented in brilliant colours.
The daily service is impressive. The worshippers wear robes of different hues denoting their function and status, and kneel in blocks in the nave to genuflect and pray while acolytes perform complex rituals.
Visitors are welcomed to the service, but must remove their shoes at the door. There are separate entries men and women. Photography is permitted, but it’s polite not to subject the worshippers to a barrage of flashlights. After the service, visitors can wander around the nave, but are requested not to go beyond the pink candy-stripe pillars.
The Holy See is near Tay Ninh town, about a hundred kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City. The journey takes two to three hours.
Dau Tieng Reservoir
Dau Tieng Lake is located on the way to Tay Ninh, Cao Dai Great Temple, and Ba Den Mountain, 20 km from Tay Ninh. The lake covers 27,000 ha and has a water reserve of 1,5 billion m3, irrigating Tay Ninh province as well neighbouring provinces. Dau Tieng Lake’s beautiful landscape of mountains, its mysterious islets, and its fresh and pure atmosphere shall give visitors an agreeable feeling. Visitors shall also appreciate the food specialties of the locality.