(Dan Tri) - To celebrate the 5th anniversary of the cable car opening, Ba Den Mountain tourist area organized many experiences and attractive gifts for visitors on January 18.
Unprecedented attractive gifts
On January 18, 2020, Sun Group Corporation put into operation a new cable car system at Ba Den Mountain National Tourist Area, consulted and designed by Doppelmayr cable car company.
After 5 years of operation, Ba Den Mountain cable car has increasingly attracted a large number of tourists to the "roof of the South", making pilgrimages to the Ba Den Mountain pagoda system and worshiping spiritual and cultural works at the Sun World Ba Den Mountain tourist area.
Ba Den Mountain is the top spiritual destination in the South (Photo: Nguyen Minh Tu).
To mark the 5th anniversary of the cable car going into operation, Sun World Ba Den Mountain tourist area will organize many attractive cultural and artistic activities. The lucky draw program will be held on the top of Ba Den Mountain on the morning of January 18.
The highest prize is 5 SJC gold bars for the 5 luckiest guests. In addition, the prizes include: 5 24k gold-plated Bodhi leaves worth 1.5 million VND; 5 gold-plated Tay Bo Da Son Buddha statues worth 500,000 VND; 5 Maitreya statues worth 500,000 VND; and 5 feng shui bracelets worth 385,000 VND.
The cable car takes only 8 minutes to take visitors to the top of the highest mountain in the South (Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain).
Ms. Dao Thi Viet, Deputy Director of Sun World Ba Den Mountain, shared: "The special gifts on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the cable car opening are our gratitude to the tourists who have loved and chosen to come to Ba Den Mountain in recent years. The gifts also represent the tourist area's wishes for a new year of prosperity, luck and peace for visitors."
Top spiritual tourist destination in the South
After 5 years of operation, the tourist area now includes 3 cable lines. The Van Son cable line takes visitors from the foot of the mountain to the top of Ba Den mountain, helping to shorten the travel time to the top of Ba Den mountain from 4 hours walking by road to 8 minutes.
The second cable line is Chua Hang cable line connecting from the foot of the mountain to the Ba Pagoda system with a travel time of only 5 minutes, and the third cable line Tam An connects directly from the Ba Pagoda system to the top of the mountain in just 5 minutes.
Attached to the 3 cable lines are unique stations, of which the station located at the foot of the mountain holds the record for "World's largest cable car station" awarded by Guinness World Record.
The world's largest cable car station at the foot of Ba Den Mountain (Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain).
Along with 3 modern cable car routes, Sun World Ba Den Mountain tourist area also invested in large-scale spiritual and cultural works in the Southern region, notably the Tay Bo Da Son Buddha statue, one of the tallest bronze statues in Asia, and the world's largest sandstone statue of Bodhisattva Maitreya.
Statue of Bodhisattva Maitreya (Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain).
Also on top of Ba Den Mountain, a large-scale Buddhist exhibition space applies modern technology. This is also a place for visitors to admire simulated versions of classic Buddhist artworks.
Not only spiritual works, Ba Den mountain is also the destination of many unique cultural experiences such as the water music show applying modern technology at the area of the Maitreya Bodhisattva statue; the art lantern exhibition space with 1,200 hand-painted lanterns inspired by folklore; or art performances recreating cultural heritage on holidays and weekends.
Panoramic view of Ba Den Mountain (Photo: Sun World Ba Den Mountain).
According to researcher Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang - Director of the Institute of Intangible Spiritual Culture Science - the spiritual cultural works on the top of Ba Den Mountain are the pride of the people of Tay Ninh and the Vietnamese people in general. Ms. Hang said: "Tay Ninh will be the first place in Vietnam to bring to the world knowledge and attractions about spiritual tourism in Vietnam in a systematic, in-depth and professional manner".
According to statistics from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Tay Ninh province, in 2019, before the cable car to Ba Den Mountain was installed, Tay Ninh welcomed nearly 3 million visitors. In 2024, after 5 years of operating the cable car system with the Sun World Ba Den Mountain tourist area, Tay Ninh welcomed 5.6 million visitors, of which more than 90% went to Ba Den Mountain, making this place a new growth pole of tourism in the South.
Source: https://dantri.com.vn/du-lich/nui-ba-den-thanh-diem-den-hang-dau-nam-bo-sau-5-nam-khai-truong-cap-treo-20250116100859550.htm
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