Non Nuoc Stone Carving Village

This guide to Non Nuoc Stone Carving Village in Da Nang traces three centuries of quarrying inside Marble Mountain, from the tough foremen called ong vo who led crews into the caves, to the 1990 government ban that stopped the digging outright. You'll hear how the craftsmen kept working by trucking in stone from other provinces and abroad, and about Huynh Ba Quat, who brought the trade here in the late sixteen hundreds, and the Nguyen emperors who later commissioned the same families. Listen for the chisels and grinders still running around you.