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Multi-periodSite Name: Mỹ SơnCountry: Vietnam
NOTE: This site is 223.465 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Trà Kiệu Nearest Village: Duy Phú
Latitude: 15.460000N Longitude: 108.070000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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ModernExplorers visited on 2nd Dec 2008 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Very old, dilapidated ruins - there were far too many tourists there when I visited.
Not so many megalithic structures, more recent ruins in my opinion
jdeblois83 visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 3.5
From the 4th to the 14th century AD, the valley at Mỹ Sơn was a site of religious ceremony for kings of the ruling dynasties of Champa, as well as a burial place for Cham royalty and national heroes.
Mỹ Sơn is perhaps the longest inhabited archaeological site in Indochina, but a large majority of its architecture was destroyed by US carpet bombing during a single week of the Vietnam War.
The Mỹ Sơn temple complex is regarded one of the foremost Hindu temple complexes in Southeast Asia and is the foremost heritage site of this nature in Vietnam.
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