8 things left by Brobdingnag giants in Vietnam
A giant turtle, titanic loach and a butterfly, and an oversized mushroom are amongst the supersized animals and plants that could have been left by the giants from the land of Brobdingnag during their visit to Vietnam in 2011.
They are listed by Dat Viet newspaper as follows.
1. Giant turtle in Hanoi
On the morning of December 12, 2011, 60-year-old Nguyen Ba Toan caught a 22-kilogram turtle when he was fishing under Chuong Duong Bridge in Hanoi.
The 22-kilogram turtle. Photo: Kenh14
The turtle is one meter long and 50 centimeter wide. It is said to bear resemblances to the giant old turtle in Sword Lake.
Many neighbors have visited Toan’s house to see the giant creature. Some offered hundreds of millions of dong for the creature, but Toan and his wife turned them down
Two days after catching the animal, they decided to sell the creature to a Chinese national for VND180 million (US$8640).
2. Titan loach in Ha Tinh
In mid-September, Nguyen Thi Huong of Nghi Xuan District in the central province of Ha Tinh captured a loach, a type of fish, which was more than 1.5 meters long, and weighed 10 kilograms, on her fishing trip.
The loach that is 5 meter long. Photo: BDVN
Huong said it was not until she took the large creature back to land that she realized it was a loach.
Locals flocked to her house to see the big creature as soon as she got home.
3. Enormous butterfly in Nghe An
On August 26, Le Dinh Dinh in Hau Thanh Commune, Yen Thanh District, in the central province of Nghe An found an enormous butterfly with a wingspan of 40 centimeters in his garden.
The giant butterfly. Photo: NLD
The butterfly, whose wings had white dots and brown patterns, perched upon a dragon fruit tree in Dinh’s garden and stayed there until the next morning, despite the curious stares of Dinh’s neighbors.
In late July, a woman in Quang Nam Province also found a giant moth with a wingspan of 50 cm wide in her garden, which experts said belonged to a night butterfly species known as Attacus Atlas, the biggest butterfly species in the world.
4. Lemon as big as a piglet in Da Lat
At the Da Lat-based Muoi Loi garden of Bui Van Sang, lemon trees whose fruits are as big as a piglet can easily be found.
The lemons weigh an average of 3.5 kilogram, have a 20-cm diameter, and are 40 cm wide.
Sang and his piglet-sized lemons. Photo: VNN
Sang said the lemons originated from India, Myanmar, and the Mediterranean, adding that he has treated the trees with special techniques so that each one stands nearly 1 meter high.
5. Jumbo gourd in Ninh Thuan
In early March, Truong Thanh Le of the central province of Ninh Thuan found a giant gourd that weighed as much as 35 kilograms in his garden.
Le and the jumbo gourd in his garden. Photo: GDXH
The gourd is 0.7 meter long and, its largest circumference measures up to 1 meter.
Le said the gourd was grown in his garden at Phuoc Khanh Hamlet, Phuoc Thuan Commune, Ninh Phuoc District.
He had taken care of the gourd and it had gradually grownto such a big size, he said, adding that he would keep it for seeding purposes.
6. Enormous lotus-shaped winged yam
On the morning of April 22, several dozen locals flocked out of curiosity to the house of Pham Thi Ngoc Anh, in the southernmost province of Ca Mau, to have a look at the giant winged yam that was shaped like a lotus.
The enormous lotus-shaped yam
Anh said it took her and her family more than an hour to unearth the yam, which weighed 30 kilograms.
7. Oversized cassava in Bac Giang
In April, 64-year-old Nguyen Cao Khai, of the northern province of Bac Giang, yielded a mammoth ginseng-shaped cassava that weighed 45 kilograms, and was 1.7 meter wide.
The cassava weighing 45 kilograms. Photo: KHDS
Khai said he had planted the fruit two years ago, and had not watered or fertilized it since.
Earlier he had also unearthed a 30-kg cassava.
8. Huge mushroom in Binh Duong
On June 6, Truong Anh Dao of Binh Duong Province was returning to her home with her sister from their morning exercise when she found a bizarre mushroom in an unused brick kiln.
The giant mushroom. Photo: Binh Duong Newspaper
“I was walking when I found a giant white object behind a bush,” Dao recalled.
“My sister insisted that it was a conical hat someone had left, but when I approached it, I realized it was a giant mushroom.”
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