The West Lake

838 hectares. According to a legend, this place was formerly a forest - covered mountain on which lived a fox spirit with 9 tails. The monster was later drowned under huge waves unleashed by a dragon -god and a lake was born. According to another legend, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Khong Lo was rewarded with a vast  amount of bronze by The emperor of China for his outstanding services; with the bronze, bronze he had an enormous bell cast. the sound of the bell carried so far that a golden Buffalo calf, believing this to be the voice of Its mother, Rushed down from the North. It trampled the ground so hard: that a lake appeared under Its foot