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BY ANNE CHAMBERLAIN
TAKE OnE: DALAT
dALAT 1: Dalat Flower Gardens
On the northern side of Xuan Huong
Lake in the heart of the city, Dalat Flower Gardens is well known for its variety of colourful flowers and plant species, include familiar plants like orchids, hydrangeas, roses, pansies, mimosas and peach blossoms, plus many exotic species. Enjoy the park’s lovely floral displays year-round, with summer its peak time. Visitors can buy beautifully arranged bouquets at the gardens. Open daily 07:30 – 16:00.
OnE EScAPE, TwO HOLidAYS:
Dalat offers a cool change in more ways
than one, it’s climate is spring-like and it’s architecture owes more to French Colonial style than the beach high rises of Nha Trang.
Nha Trang on the other hand is all tropical
cool, defined by it’s beautiful bay and stunning beaches. Lucky for you RCI members can enjoy both in one holiday.
dALAT 2: Hang Nga Crazy House Experience the surrealistic architecture of Hang Nga Crazy House, an imaginative, artistic private home. Sculptured rooms connect via slender bridges with vine-like hand rails rising from tangled greenery, combined with organic, lava-flow shapes, wild colors and spider-web windows. Crazy House is the work-in-progress of owner Mrs Dang Viet Nga (Hang Nga), a PhD in architecture from Moscow and designer of other Dalat buildings.
dALAT 3: Bao Dai’s Summer Palace Visit the home of Vietnam’s last emperor Bao Dai, who ascended to the throne in 1926 aged 12. He enjoyed the good life, and spent much time in Dalat. His summer palace comprised three imperial buildings, with Dinh 3 the best known. The restored palace with original furniture and fittings, portraits and sculptures of the royals offers a rich insight into his life. Open daily 07:00 – 17:00 on Le Hong Phong Road, a quarter mile southwest of the city center.
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