Yen Tu Mountain, a sacred and peaceful Buddhist sanctuary

A track leads up the mountain. The cable car station is open from early morning to serve visitors. Cable cars make going to Yen Tu Mountain much quicker and easier than before.

The cable car stops short of the top of Yen Tu Mountain. Visitors still have to walk a stretch of road to see everything.

A stone stele marks "the Sacred Yen Tu Mountain Peak".

On An Ky Sinh peak, 900 meters above sea level, sits a statue of Buddhist King Tran Nhan Tong in a meditative pose. At 138 tons in weight and 15 meters tall, it is the largest bronze statue in Vietnam.

Directional signs along the roads show travelers the way to Yen Tu Mountain.

It takes about half an hour to climb to the Dong (Bronze) Pagoda. The pure bronze pagoda, 1,068 meters above sea level, has a deep abyss on one side and clings to the edge of a protruding cliff on the other.

Dong (Bronze) Pagoda was built on the spot where King Tran Nhan Tong, eldest son of King Tran Thanh Tong, led his monastic life. The pagoda was built in the Post-Le Dynasty (15th century) by a concubine of a Trinh Lord.

Inside the pagoda is a statue of Gautama Buddha and three statues of Tam Tổ Trúc Lâm, which are between 0.45 and 0.87 meters tall and sit on lotus-shaped lamp supports.

All the construction works, including the pagoda, the Buddha statues, and the bells, weigh more than 70 tons. They were cast from pure bronze and assembled on top of the mountain.

Dong Pagoda has long had a great spiritual importance. Every year, tens of thousands of visitors, including many Buddhist monks and nuns, make a pilgrimage to the Buddhist sanctuary on Yen Tu Mountain.