Trai Thuy Hill - Hon Xuong

Trai Thuy Hill is a unique island, located at the beginning of Nha Trang city to the west. The shape of Trai Thuy mountain resembles a bat, lying with its wings spread, its head facing southwest. The mountain is more than 30 meters high, more than 500 meters long, running along National Highway 1 in the North from Cai Lo Tuyen road running to Ba Thanh intersection (the tail and foot of a bat) to the area of Long Son pagoda, Hai Duc pagoda, Buu pagoda. Long (the head of a bat). Hon Trai Thuy is also known as Hon Xuong or Hon Kho.

The reason why Hon Doi is called Trai Thuy Hill, Xuong Hon or Kho island is because in the Tay Son-Nguyen Anh period, this place was a food warehouse (storehouse), after Nguyen Anh defeated General Tran Quang Dieu in Kho Son. He set up the Shipyard - a shipyard for the Marines.

Looking at the map, Thuy Xuong is located at the road connecting Phuong Sai street and 23/10 street (the old Ma round street). Thuy Xuong is near the canal connecting with Cai River (also known as Phu Loc and Cu rivers). Hon Doi is 30 m high, so it is convenient to set up a guard tower to the sea and river. The shipyard now does not have any vestiges left. Children in Phuong Sai, Ward Son only heard about going down to the Workshop as if they didn't know where it was? what do they mean ?

Trai Thuy Island looks gentle, few people would have guessed that there were many decisive battles at the foot of the mountain before. Those were fierce battles between the Nguyen and Tay Son dynasties in Qui Ox year (1793) and Giap Dan year (1795) at Truong Ca wharf (Phuong Sai). And in the year of the Rooster (1885), Nghia Quan Can Vuong used this place as a base against the French.

Hon Doi is one of the "Four Pillars of Beasts" of Nha Trang. In the past, the bat island had the shape of "Juc Boc Ham Hoan" (Pearl bat holding a jade ring) because in front of the mountain, at the "Bat's head" there was a round water gourd like a moon, but today it is covered. And the people built their houses on this water and no longer recognized its shape.