Crazy House in Dalat (Vietnam) Bashny.Net

In fact, it is an art gallery and a hotel called the Hang Nga. But the locals call it simply "The Mad House» (Crazy House).




The architectural style is defined simply not realistic, there is a cave, a giant spider web made of wire, concrete "tree trunks", and even a statue of a nude female figure, which is quite unusual and very rare in Vietnam, concrete giraffe, with a built-in tea room, etc. .p.





Most visitors come to a complete surprise finding such anti-cultural masterpiece in Dalat, and the majority of the Vietnamese little afraid of this place, but enthusiasts of avant-garde and the curious continue to pay an entrance fee US $ 0.20, to see and to photograph it. The money from the entrance fee are additional art projects.













The creator of the gallery, Mrs Dang Viet Nga, it is called "Hang Nga", he was born in Hanoi, and lived in Moscow for 14 years, where she defended her PhD in architecture. With it interesting to talk to, she wears the dress exactly according to the fashion hippie 1960s, angrily cursing and around it there is something mysterious.









The People's Committee of Da Lat is not always appreciate such creative projects. The old architectural masterpiece Dalat "House with 100 roofs" was destroyed as a "fire hazard" as the People's Committee considered that it looks like "anti-socialist". However, there is little chance that the Hang Nga will have any trouble with the authorities - her father, Truong Chinh, was the successor to Ho Chi Minh. He was the second president of Vietnam from 1981 until his death in 1988