Visitting Tro Pond

Tro pond was discovered in the summer of 1923, two French informants discovered this archaeological site, the Tro pond is the name of a freshwater lake located between the coastal sand-hills, in the northeast of Dong Hoi Township. Here, the primitive people have been resident around the lake for a long time. Traces of ancient people have sunk gradually in the sand.

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Tro pond is located in Hai Thanh ward in Dong Hoi city today, Legend has it that is was a cleanest freshwater pond, more than well-water of the people people in the area. Without water plants, the Dong Hoi people often drink from Bao Ninh’s water. It is desolate, without inhabitants and the place with the Dragon King Temple, worship the famous and sacred Sea- God, the pool was preserved cleanly, the people just come here to get water using for worship but rarely get water of this pond for daily use. Currently, Tro pond was no longer desolate, the sand-hills as a bastion for pond had a populated ward.

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Tro Pond

One of the must-come places for tourists coming to Quang Binh is Tro Pond. When looking at Google map, Bau Tro stood out a blue colors in the middle of the city and very close to the sea. This is a natural lake, providing fresh water with Dong Hoi city and surrounding areas with water reserves of nearly ten million cubic meters. This water source is closed in the heart of gold sand, far from Dong Hoi sea and estuary area about one kilometer. The local people said that nature lovingly filtered and bestowed them a precious water source that nowhere has been seen. From the French domination period, the French have put water pumps into Dong Hoi township (now, it is Dong Hoi city). Despite on the dry season, the weather is drought wherever it goes, the pond is always full of water. Tro pond with beautiful landscape surrounded by a green forest creates a romantic and traquil scenery.

Tro Pond

Tourists who come to Dong Hoi city, Quang Binh often think of a range of romantic coast, which is the place with the famous Nhat Le beautiful seaside resort. Not many people knew that Dong Hoi has a freshwater lake located next to Nhat Le beach, far just over 100 meters, it is the Bau Tro lake. This is a beautiful site and a monument with the archaeological site of the ancient vietnam people left.

Many people said that, the culture of Tro pond is the typical one of Central, is one of the original points emerged Dong Son culture in the north and Sa Huynh culture in the south. This also demonstrated that prehistoric inhabitants of Quang Binh have been great area exchange from North to South Central, developing continuously since the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, Iron Age.

When standing on the sand hill of Hai Thanh village, you can see the Tro pond and the sea with only any moment, they will be harmonious with together. Yet the water source is still limpid and fresh extremely. Bau Tro is the only source of fresh water supplying running water, agricultural water for the whole salinization region of Dong Hoi city. Erstwhile, Tro pond was very desolate, pristine compared with an ancient casuarinas area, with lots of birds, flying, diving.

Tro Pond

Next to Tro pond has a temple of a big wooden rice shell. There are many folk tales around this exotic pond, including a story that this pond is “abysmal” but it communicate with another fresh water pond named Bau Sen, far from Dong Hoi 30 kilometers on pathway! It is the folk interpretation about the endless possibility of small and rare source of freshwater, between all sides with the salty water. Today, the Tro pond is being strictly protected because it is not only a relic of archeology, a famous beautiful site but also the daily water source for a densely populated area.

Around Bau Tro, so far it remains an undecided controversial issue about language and history. The archaeologists discovered Tro pond is a rich vestige in pottery and good at it, but the linguists predicted Tro pond is the rice one. Furthermore, according to folk tales in Dong Hoi, the Bau Tro is very deep and abysmal because someone tried swimming on raft in the lake, and then tie stone into the wire drop down but drop much the wire is also slack again. In addition, an unforgettable thrilling story, after a great flood, when the water receded, someone picked grapefruits of the Trooc Vuc (Le Thuy) at both sides of Tro pond. The Tro pond story, which the underground bottom communicates with Trooc Vuc, is also rooted in it.