Our favourite site of Jars was Site 3, about 10km south of Site 2, again on a hill-top. To get to the site, you have to hike about 1.5kn through rice paddies…
Andup a steep hill past some friendly water buffaloes:
At the top of the hill you see this:
Yes, it was pretty hot at this point…
Beautiful.
You can read about Site 1 here and Site 2 here.
yup, those stones look so mysterious. i wonder how those ancient people moved them there. it reminds me of a smaller version of Stone Henge or Easter Island.
i saw Balancing Rock outside of Glen Innes in Australia and asked my Aussie husband (we call him 'BALD') how it got that way. and it seems it just a natural phenomenon. there's certainly something quietly powerful about ancient looking stone in a natural setting.
Short – yes it was a bit like Stonehenge and kind of random like Easter Island (Neil has been there). And you are right – Hanging Rock is quite powerful. I loved the Plain of Jars though people told us we would be underwhelmed, we most definitely were not…
it doesn't look underwhelming at all! quite the opposite. you've taken excellent pictures too.