THE CLIFF OF STONE
PLATES
More than 40 km south of Tuy
Hoa city, Phu Yen province, the Cliff of Stone Plates looks, from a far
distance, like a huge beehive which is about 50 meters in width, 200 meters in
length. The cliff is structured with a set of prismatic stone pillars placed
adjacently. The vertical pillars and inclined ones standing in close position
adjoining to the sea resemble big plates that are supernaturally placed. The
cliff is the result of ancient volcanic eruptions when the molten basalt flows
hardened and formed these spectacular polygonal pillars. In 1998, the Cliff of
Stone Plates was recognized as a national landscape.
