House on stilts revives in central highlands
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More than 1,000 local people and tourists gathered in the central highlands city of Kon Tum last Sunday to celebrate the new biggest Rong house (house on stilts) in Kon Klor village.
At the event, people sang and danced, drank can wine and participated in buffalo stabbing fest.
Kon Klor, name of the village as well as the Rong House, means a village of cotton trees as there were many of this kind previously alongside the Dak Bla River.
The house is 17.2 meters in length, 6.4 meters in width and 22 meters in height. Twelve pillars were made of expensive woods that could stand rainy and sunny season in the highlands.
Built in 2000 with the help of the People’s Committee, the Rong house had been a communal place for cultural and relational activities of the locals.
Until May last year, the house was burned down by a drunk junior-high school student in response to his friend’s challenge.
Later people in Kon Klor village contributed 3,500 working days to rebuild the VND1.8 billion (US$86,400) Rong house again.
