It
is in Lien Dam commune, Di Linh district, 80km from Dalat and 25km from
Bao Loc, next to the National road No. 20, Po Pla waterfall (which
means the head of an elephant tusk in K’Ho language) and pronounces as
Bobla in Vietnamese, and it is also called Lien Dan Waterfall.
The waterfall lies between 2 hills
which have the shapes of 2 elephants kneeling and it is like a cave
with house, coffee plantations around, below the waterfall there is a
small lake made by water flowing for a long time, beside the lake there
is a big block of stone that look like a stone table of the heaven and
around there are big old trees.
A very long time ago, when the cham
ruled Di Linh, they forced the inhabitant to pay taxes in products of
the forest such as tusHotel of rhinoceroses, deer...And especially
elephant tusHotel . They chose big elephant tusHotel only, and the
chief of the tribe at the waterfall had found a pair of elephant
tusHotel which were higher than a person, a horse could not jump over
them. Then, the cham king was so happy, called that place Po Pla and
the waterfall was also called Po Pla. The name Lien Dam was transformed
from Liang dan-the name of a good youth man who had saved the villages
of Liang Trak Mur from cham invaders. One time when the chams broke
into the village, all villagers ran away, except for Liang Dam, who
picked a branch of a tree on the waterfall and pointed branch to the
enemy; as the branch broke the chams hurt themselves. When all the
chams had disappeared, Liang silently went to the waterfall and
vanished, the villagers couldn’t come in time to show their gratitude.
So the villagers named their tribe Liang Dan.