Saturday, October 6, 2007

The Castle of the Spider's net


(Hang Nga villa) on the way to Bao Dai Palace, turning right on Huynh Thuc Khang street. It appeared in Dalat in 1990 and it was considered as a peculiar building owned by Mr. Dang Viet Nga (an architect, a doctor) who once studied in Eastern Europe.

The building was designed like a fairy tale with spiders net, a couple of giraffes, a stylized bungalow, a child on his way to school, a couple of old men having an argument... The owner’s opinion is to symbolize a real life with different problems. Each room has the name of an animal or a fruit to express the closeness between nature and human as: room of the bookworm, room of the kangaroo, room of the tiger, room of the ant, room of the gourd...The building was designed like a fairy tale with spiders net, a couple of giraffes, a stylized bungalow, a child on his way to school, a couple of old men having an argument... The owner’s opinion is to symbolize a real life with different problems. Each room has the name of an animal or a fruit to express the closeness between nature and human as: room of the bookworm, room of the kangaroo, room of the tiger, room of the ant, room of the gourd...

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Welcome to Dalat, Vietnam

Vietnam’s Dalat—nicknamed “The City of Love,” “Le Petit Paris,” and “City of Eternal Spring”—has long been popular with Vietnamese and expatriate artists and writers who have taken up residence in villas around town. The area, originally inhabited by the Lat and Ma hill tribes which now live in nearby Chicken Village and Lat Village, increased in popularity during the French colonial era. More than 2,000 beautiful French villas dot the area.

Dalat is known all over Vietnam for its flowers. Set next to Xuan Huong Lake, the Dalat Flower Gardens were established in 1966 by the Vietnamese government, and are refined continually. Among the tastefully arranged flora are orchids, hydrangeas, fuchsias, and ferns. Plants and flowers are also for sale, including special fern fibers used to stop bleeding in traditional oriental medicine. Across the road from the Flower Gardens are nurseries with various types of bonsai trees, artfully laid out around the lake.

Đà Lạt được mệnh danh là thành phố của ngàn hoa, thành phố của sương mù, nơi có những câu truyện tình lãng mạn đã được giới thiệu trên thơ ca. Đến với thành phố của ngàn thông reo, các bạn sẽ cảm nhận được cái lạnh, cái trong lành của Đà Lạt, một thành phố giữa rừng, một rừng giữa thành phố. Trước khi tới với Đà Lạt, các bạn hãy đến với "Dalat My Love" để chuẩn bị cho mình chút hành trang nho nhỏ để chuyến đi du lịch Đà Lạt của bạn được trọn vẹn và niềm vui được nhân lên.

Với các bạn đã từng tới Đà Lạt và từng mang trong mình tình yêu Đà Lạt, Dalat My Love sẽ giúp các bạn có những giây phút tuyệt vời tưởng chừng như bạn đang sống giữa Đà Lạt.