Standing out under the blue sky of Tuy An commune, Phu Yen province, Vietnam is the innumerable stone columns stacked neatly like being arranged by the hands of God. Ghenh Da Dia or The sea cliff of stone plates is an invaluable gift of Phu Yen and has become a popular place for backpackers, photographers, and couples.
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Visitors may reach Ghenh Da Dia by road or waterway. However, taking a stroll would be a perfect choice for those who love to adventure. Crossing tranquil villages, rolling hills, and fields are all exciting experience.
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Coming to Ghenh Da Dia, you will be surprised by the ecstatic beauty of this landscape that you can’t utter words. Ghenh Da Dia (50 meters in width and stretches about 200 meters) is special combination of strangely structured rocks of upright stones and oblique of columns. All of them are piled like a gigantic natural honeycomb. It is estimated that this landscape is made up of about 35,000 basalt stones.
Each stone is arranged ingeniously and strikes in the blue sea, sunshine, and waves. Passing through all the impacts of time with foaming waves crashing over the reef, Ghenh Da Dia remains its pristine beauty.
Ghenh Da Dia looks like a golden plate when hues of the sunset covered stones. This reef was formed hundreds years ago during volcano eruption. Volcanic lava flowing into the sea had been melted and broke into columns to create the wonderful landscape.
Coming to Ghenh Da Dia, visitors will catch sight of coracles lying beside the rocks. This place is like berth of fisherman when they hurriedly head for the open sea or quietly come back to the shore.
The pristine Ghenh Da Dia has a poetic beauty in the afternoon when you are free to dip in the cool water, to close your eyes and to enjoy gentle waves, caress of the breeze, and salty smell of the sea.