Friday, February 26, 2010

Crazy house in Dalat

Situated at 3 Huỳnh Thúc Kháng Street, about 1km southwest of Dalat Center, Moon Fairy Villa or Spider Web Castle ( people call Crazy house) are the two names for the architectural work of Dr Đặng Việt Nga. One of many foreign tourists has noted that it is really ‘the most extraordinary, most imaginative, most unique castle’ in Vietnam or even in the Southeast of Asia.

On getting through a small arch, tourists will immerge into a legendary world where rooms are funnily hollowed into legendary tree trunks, huge mushrooms grow beside a variant bungalow or couple of giant deer keep staying together, one is lazily drinking water and the other is raising high its head watching, two upright-down guava trees look like a talkative couple having argument, a banian bonsai looks like a newborn deer looking for his mother, statues of innocent children or thoughtful adults stand in harmony, a little bridge crosses a shallow stream, and etc.

All seems to mean a picture of life, full of risks and contrary feelings, where spider web threads of life mean close relation between human being and the nature.

On visiting this place, tourists will be amazed to have a look at the ‘seft-introducting’ room, where portraits of successive hostesses and praiseful review from newspaper are displayed in s disorderly manner, which means fantasy and uncertainty of our life.

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