Hang Nga Crazy House Tip in Dalat City

A free-wheeling architectural exploration of surrealism, Hang Nga Crazy House is a joyously created, outrageously artistic private house. Picture sculptured rooms linked by super-slim bridges rising from a tangle of greenery, an excess of cascading lava-flow-like shapes, wild colours, spiderweb windows and a practically organic quality to all of it, with the stroking hand rails appearing like jungle vines. Think Gaudi meeting Tolkien and dropping acid together.

The brainchild of owner Mrs Dang Viet Nga, the Crazy House has actually been an imaginative operate in progress since 1990. Hang Nga, as she's understood in your area, has a PhD in architecture from Moscow and has designed a number of other buildings around Dalat. One of her earlier work of arts, the 'House with 100 Roofings', was torn down as a fire threat since individuals's Committee believed it looked antisocialist.

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Hang Nga began the Crazy House task to attract people back to nature, and though it's becoming more outlandish every year, she's not likely to have anymore difficulty with the authorities. Her father, Truong Chinh, was Ho Chi Minh's successor, serving as Vietnam's second president from 1981 up until his death in 1988. There's a shrine to him in the ground-floor lounge.

A note of caution for those with young kids: the Crazy House's maze of precarious tunnels, high sidewalks with low guard rails and high ladders are certainly not youngster safe.