Dai Loc, Quang Nam, Vietnam

Lim Mountain Creek

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Location: Lim Mountain Creek is located in Dai Dong Commune, Dai Loc District, Quang Nam Province.
Characteristics: This creek originates from Am Thong Mountain range on the Hio- Hiu Peak at a height of 882m from sea level.
Water runs from this height down through different layers, flowing through two hamlets and finally mingles with Vu Gia River down to Cua Dai Estuary.
Along both sides of the creek, there are peaceful virgin forests, varied fauna and vegetation, all this together with Hio-Hiu mountain ranges create charming scenes.
This can be regarded as an ideal holiday spot of the midland area of Dai Loc District and Quang Nam Province.

Source: Vietnam Nation Administration of Tourism

Co Ba Cho Duoc market festival, typical cultural characteristics

Annually, when spring comes, thousands of people inside and outside Quang Nam central province flock to Duoc market in Binh Trieu, Trang Binh to join a traditional ceremonial procession and many other sports activities to pray for the best wishes for a new year. Tri Loi writes

On the day when she was born, there was a strange omen; deep blue smoke and white clouds engulfed the whole region. When she grew up, she became an extremely beautiful and gentle girl. She worked as an herbal doctor to make medicines to save numerous lives.

On 19 November 1818 when she was only 19 years old, she passed away and the locals built a temple to worship her. Despite being dead, she would after appear miraculously to give herbal medicines to save people.

The story also tells that in the fifth Tu Duc year, she passed the region, seeing the charming landscapes; she told the locals to build a market and named the village Phuoc Am. After a short period of time, the region became busy with many people having come to settle down and enrich themselves. The locals called it Duoc (it means that you get what you wish for) Market.

The Truong Giang river also became a waterway for the locals to boat goods to Gia Dinh (former name of Ho Chi Minh City) and Dong Nai province. Now, her tomb is still annually worshipped at Ai Nghia town, Dai Loc district.

The Ba Cho Duoc (Ms Duoc Market) festival takes place in the evening after elderly people in the village complete the rituals at her tomb. Offerings are all rice cakes.

While the market is busy at night, the boat racing festival on the Truong Giang (Long River) is very exciting in the daytime. The competition attracts racers from other localities such as Hoi An, Duy Xuyen, Dai Loc and Nui Thanh. It is really a tough competition.

The traditional Cho Duoc market is annually organised in memory of Ms Ba Cho Duoc by the local authority with a view to turning Quang Nam into a more attractive destination.

(Source: ND)

A story is told that Ms Cho Duoc named Nguyen with taboo name Cua was a girl born on 25 February 1799 into a rich family in Dai Cuong commune, Dai Loc district.

The event culminated the story of the first Christmas.

There is currently an urgent need at one of the orphanages that we work with in Vietnam. The Global Volunteer Network has been working with the Dai Loc orphanage for almost six months, and our volunteers have enjoyed working in this location. At the moment, the orphanage is suffering a major difficulty, as it has no easy access to water. In the past, the orphanage has collected water from the nearby hospital and transported it back to the orphanage. Recently the pumping system at the hospital broke down and the orphanage was without water for more than one week. Further, the hospital has indicated that it is no longer willing to provide water to the orphanage. This is clearly not a satisfactory situation.

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Orphan Voice is working in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam.

In Dai Loc, Orphan Voice assists at a government-run orphanage established in 2004 to help take care of the overwhelming numbers of abandoned children.

These children come from extremely poor families living on the streets and from families destroyed by disease and mental illness.

Orphan Voice also ministers in Tien Phuoc, a rural area of the same province. Click here to see some of the children in Tien Phuoc who are helped through our child sponsorship program.

Some thoughts about the movie night in Dai Loc Orphanage

Enoch and I came to Dai Loc by motorbike at 2pm. The weather was sunny and so much windy. It was so strong that it likely pushed us away. The reason we went there early because we just wanted to make sure that everything went alright to have a good movie night for the children.

To the people who live in the city movie on the widescreen is not strange. To the people in some remote place, especially in the orphanage it is so much interesting. That is why some children tried to reach to us when we were preparing projector and screen...They were very curious about what we were doing there.

We had some problems with hanging the screen on the wall, adjusted the projector...In short everything was ready for the movie night but we could not go back to take the vain up here again as we had planned before because it was too late.

Show time. The children were very eager to the movie "Ratatouille". This is one of the best 3D cartoon movie.

It was a long day for me and Enoch. Actaully I felt tired and sleepy. However the laughters and laughters chased me tiredness away. It was right to say there is nothing happier than making other feel happy. I am a happy person because our work brought the smiles on the poor children faces.

To God my heavenly Father all glory.

Ducky Family

http://in.truveo.com/dai-loc-orphanage/id/72057644904934538

2 years ago

http://vimeo.com/171740