What is the legend of Chong rock in Nha Trang

VietnamSurpriseOnce upon a time in the old days, there was a big meeting happened in the heaven, chaired by the Lord to look for resorts for the heaven staffs when they were on leave for the holidays.

chong rocks in Nha Trang

After many days of the agenda, Nha Trang was chosen. Immediately, the God divided into 2 areas:

The first area is now the fairy beach that’s just 4 km from the heart of the city to the north where was a resort for fairy girls. And the second one is about 24 km from Nha Trang to the south west. A wonderful spring names fairy spring was the resort for immortals.

Everybody was happy with the Lord’s decision and carried out very strictly the regulations.

One day, there was an immortal got drunk and left his place silently without a word to his friends for fairy beach.

It was amazing to him when getting there. In front of him was a picturesque landscape with many cute fairies who were bathing nude. He felt very excited at the sight then took shelter after the big rock to spy the sights. Unfortunately and carelessly, he slipped his feet, lost his balance. And with the body reflex, he seized slipped his hand strongly to the big rock, engraved a huge hand print with 6 fingers but finally he fell down into the water with a big bang that scared many people. He became crazier and by the way in the good momentum, he rushed into one of the closet girls and embraced her tightly while other fairies in a hurry ran to the shore, put on clothes then flew away, except one was arrested by him. Nobody knew what was happening but after this moment, 2 persons volunteered to stay in the our world. They didn’t want to go up to the paradise any longer. They began a married life very happy around here.

One day, the God called the roll and revealed 2 persons missed. He sent policemen to the world to look for them. The husband was arrested and sentenced to the jail. His wife was not allowed to stay in the heaven and exile to the worldly life for indefinite sentence. She returned to Nha Trang to wait for her husband to be back for some thousand years but he hadn’t been back. The wife became sad and got despaired, lay down and turned into the rock. And people call it the fairy Mountain.

Now, for the 3 tops of which joined together making a shape of a lying lady. The first peak is her face opening in the sky with its hill slope like her hair stretching to the sea, the middle one is her breasts and the highest one is her crossed legs.

Since she turned into the rock, perhaps a thousand years later. The husband was set free, he hurried back to find his wife. Oh! Poor him, she is now just a month. He got disappointed and very sad. Then sat down on the rock, drank for many days. Then he lay down and turn into the rock as well. Nowadays, visitors came here to remember the love story on a very nice promontory.

Source: nhatranglocalguide.com