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Tu Van Temple Pagoda

Top 7 in Top 9 most popular tourist destinations in Cam Ranh.

by Iris 08-05-2020

Tu Van Pagoda was built in 1968 on 3/4 Street, Cam Ranh City. Due to being built mainly from shells and corals, this temple is also known as Oc or Coral Pagoda. Thanks to its unique architecture, the temple has become an extremely attractive attraction. The most impressive for visitors is Bao Tich tower up to 39m. The tower has a sophisticated structure with 49 small pyramids on the outside, in each sub-tower there is a thousand Buddha statue, thousand eyes and on top of each sub tower is a small stupa. Hundreds of different large and small Buddha statues are carefully arranged on this tower.
In addition to Bao Tich tower, the journey to "18 stories of hell" is another very interesting experience at Oc Pagoda. The road to "hell" is only about 500m long, but it is still built very carefully from shells, coral stones, surrounded by eye-catching dragons. Due to deep penetration deep underground, the walkways here are quite dark, narrow, winding bends. Along the way are 12 large signs recording the crimes of the world and the punishment in the prison, just like advice that people should live in a kind and benevolent way. Entering here perhaps sometimes you will be startled because the scene "gruesome torture" in the underworld is looming in the flickering light.

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