Hon Chong, one of beautiful landscapes located in the north of Nha Trang City, has attracted tourists thanks to its pristine beauty of the nature and the fairy stories of the giant and a 5-finger-shaped dent on a large rock. Coming Hon Chong now, visitors also can enjoy music performed by Vietnamese traditional musical instruments...
Hon Chong, one of beautiful landscapes located in the north of Nha Trang City, has attracted tourists thanks to its pristine beauty of the nature and the fairy stories of the giant and a 5-finger-shaped dent on a large rock. Coming Hon Chong now, visitors also can enjoy music performed by Vietnamese traditional musical instruments.
There a wide range of traditional musical instruments displayed and played at Hon Chong Tourist Site, including monochord, lithophone, T’rung, two-chord fiddle, klông pút, 16-chord zither, drum, etc.
 |
| Instrumentalist at Hon Chong Tourist Site performing a Vietnamese musical work with monochord. |
“I have traveled to many places; however, Hon Chong Tourist Site brings me a new feeling. Along with the natural beauty, I am also attracted by the sound of many unique traditional musical instruments,” said Kim Thoa, a tourist from Ho Chi Minh City.
According to Tung, a member of the musical band at Hon Chong Tourist Site, beside playing traditional musical instruments, the band also introduce about the instruments for tourists. The biggest joy of the band is that the tourists are so interested in the band’s performances that they ask the band to perform more.
Not only middle-aged tourists but young ones as well as have been fascinated with the traditional musical instruments played by young instrumentalists. It can be said that these instruments have become an indispensable part in Hon Chong Tourist Site and contributed to creating a unique destination for tourists when traveling to Nha Trang City.
 |
| Foreign tourists trying to play Vietnamese traditional musical instruments. |
Reportedly, Ponagar Temple and Hon Chong Tourist Site are now the two tourist places in Khanh Hoa Province which attract a large number of visitors of over 850,000 people per year.
“There are more and more domestic and foreign tourists who are from different regions of Vietnam and over the world visiting Hon Chong Tourist Site. Therefore, we need to learn to play all musical genres of each place. It requires more investments to perform foreign musical works than Vietnamese one,” said Tran, an instrumentalist at Hon Chong Tourist Site.
Many foreign tourists feel pleasure when enjoying the music of their nation through Vietnamese traditional musical instruments. “I am very surprised that you can perform very well our nation’s music through the musical instruments made of stone and neohouzeaua. I may visit Nha Trang and Hon Chong one more time in the future,” shared Russian tourist Stephen Oblonsky.
H.N
