Da Lat, part III: The Houses
Posted: July 31, 2014 Filed under: Life, Travel | Tags: photography, travel, vietnam 2 CommentsDa Lat may be the City of a Thousand Pines and the City of Flowers and the City of Eternal Spring, but what I love most about it is the architecture, which is why I saved it for last. You see, it used to be a resort town back in the French colony period, and the wars didn’t touch much of it, so it is full of French-style villas. Our hotel, for example, used to be the summer house of the Governor General of Indochina back in the day. Even the more currently built houses followed the same style, so the whole town looks like something in the south of France or Switzerland.
Our hotel
This is the “Crazy House”, a house built like a growing tree trunk. Total tourist trap though
My dream house. If I ever won the lottery, I think I’d know what to do with the money now…
It’s so interesting to see classically designed architecture in such dense forests!
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