Qualla: Pleiku Lake https://qualla.com/pleiku-lake en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/pleiku-lake-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pleiku Lake https://qualla.com/pleiku-lake Pleiku Lake: Introduction https://qualla.com/pleiku-lake/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. For a long time people here called it the lake without a bottom. Drop a weighted line into any of its basins and it kept going, past whatever length of cord you had brought. When echo sounders finally traced the floor, they found not one hole but three: the throats of three old volcanoes, joined below the waterline, two of them linked by a broad underwater strait. Silt has flattened all of it since. Bien Ho now averages about nineteen metres in its two main basins and roughly twelve in the third, and the name has outlived the fact.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/pleiku-lake-wp/w6kz-pleiku-lake-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pleiku Lake: Three Craters, One Water https://qualla.com/pleiku-lake/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Gia Lai plateau is built of basalt, laid down by eruptions that ended a few million years ago and left cones and craters scattered across it. Bien Ho occupies three of those craters. Their rims still stand proud of the surrounding tableland, so the lake announces itself from ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/pleiku-lake-wp/w6kz-pleiku-lake-three-craters-one-water.mp3 0:06 2 full Pleiku Lake: A Sea on the Mountain https://qualla.com/pleiku-lake/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Vietnamese speakers call it Bien Ho, sea lake, and the Jarai call it T'Nung, which carries the same idea: a sea up in the mountains. Anyone who dismisses that as poetry has not stood on the rim in the wet season. The plateau offers no shelter, wind runs unbroken across 228 hectar...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/pleiku-lake-wp/w6kz-pleiku-lake-a-sea-on-the-mountain.mp3 0:06 3 full Pleiku Lake: What the Jarai Remember https://qualla.com/pleiku-lake/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Jarai stories about this lake are not scenic. In one, a village stood here, prosperous and loud with gongs, until its cattle began dying. The people hunted deer for a sacrifice to Yang, and while they were still feasting the ground convulsed and dropped the whole settlement i...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/pleiku-lake-wp/w6kz-pleiku-lake-what-the-jarai-remember.mp3 0:06 4 full Pleiku Lake: Kingfishers and Carp https://qualla.com/pleiku-lake/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Small pine woods run down to the shore, and the shallows carry lotus, water lily and stands of reed. Kingfishers work the margins; whistling ducks and wild geese dive among the lau reeds; birds known locally as ko tuc and ko vong move through the flowers on the surface. Flocks re...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/k/z/pleiku-lake-wp/w6kz-pleiku-lake-kingfishers-and-carp.mp3 0:06 5 full Pleiku Lake: The Modern Shore https://qualla.com/pleiku-lake/ Photo credit Jensre, CC BY-SA 3.0. Highway 14 brings you out of Pleiku and onto the rim in about seven kilometres, and the lake arrives all at once - no gradual widening of a valley, just raised ground and then water. A statue of the bodhisattva Guanyin stands 15.3 metres tall by the shore, backed by five stone pi...

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