The My Son Cultural Heritage Management Board has just launched an online ticket sales portal for tourists visiting the My Son Sanctuary. Accordingly, visitors can accessWebsite: mysonticketonline.vnto choose the appropriate ticket. Tickets for Vietnamese visitors are 100,000 VND/ticket and 150,000 VND/ticket for foreigners.
According to the My Son Cultural Heritage Management Board, with the operation of the online ticket portal, this unit hopes to serve visitors more conveniently in purchasing tickets to visit the temple tower area. This is also an effort to digitally transform to organize tour guide activities and sell tickets better and better.
My Son Sanctuary with more than 70 temples carved with elaborate and sophisticated carvings bearing many important inscriptions in Sanskrit and Cham languages
My Son Sanctuary is a heritage complex with ancient Champa architecture in Duy Phu commune, Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province. This area has a diameter of about 2km with more than 70 different temples and towers with many historical architectural features typical of each development period of ancient Champa. My Son Sanctuary dates back to around the 4th century under the reign of King Pham Ho Dat, and was used to worship the gods Linga and Shiva. After the next two centuries, the temple burned down in a major fire. And in the 7th century, King Pham Phan Chi rebuilt the temples - relics that still exist today.
This relic was forgotten until 1898, when a Frenchman and his colleagues discovered the relic hidden in the forest, in the heart of a valley surrounded by two majestic mountains.
The architecture of My Son Sanctuary with its unique, sophisticated design, bearing a strong mark, is divided into 6 typical types: ancient style, Hoa Lai, My Son, Ponagar, Dong Duong and the style of Binh Dinh people. When traveling to My Son Sanctuary, visitors will see the characteristics of this type of architecture such as stone carvings, Siva statues, and statues of dancers dancing in the Champa style. Over time, the relic site was also partly destroyed by the bombings of the US military in Vietnam. However, there are still many intact towers with unique architecture that attract tourists.
Recently, scientists have announced the results of excavations that discovered a pilgrimage route that existed in history. This road was for monks to move into the towers, the direction of the road is opposite to the current entrance to My Son. Currently, My Son welcomes about 1,500 visitors every day, more than 95% of whom are international visitors.
