WHERE THE STONE WAS PICKED UP BY VIETNAMESE COLLECTORS?

Streams, are the places Vietnamese suiseki collector pick up stones as viewing stones. They feel how the stones weathered by water. The natural process maked the stone change their shape so they became attractive, partial outlines as triangle, circles, ovals. Sometime you can see landscape as mountains, human…

Vietnam has also three main regions as magma, metamorphic and sedimentary.

Magma region : Lam Đong such as Di Linh, Bao Loc, Binh Thuan, Gia Lai, DakLak…

Metamorphic : Quang Nam, Quang Ngai…

Sedimentary: widely distribute through VietNam.

The bazan (black shape stone) is collected from  such as Son Dien, Dai Binh in Lam Dong provice; Da Mi, La Da, La Day, Ma Lam in Binh Thuan provice…

The Gneiss (Surface patterns) is collected from Quang Nam such as North and south Tra My in Tranh river, Hiep Duc, Dong Giang (yellow river) , Kham Duc; Ba To (Quang Ngai)…

Chalcedonyx (Shape) is collected from Dong Ha – Quang Tri province, BaoLoc (Mauseri village) – Lam Dong provice.

Ninh Huu Hiep
(Suiseki Lover & collector)