Da Lat Day trip
A full Da Lat Day trip will take you to visit the well-known architectures in Da Lat City. In this trip, we will visit landmarks of Da Lat City such as Da Lat Clay Sculptures Tunnel, Crazy House, Domaine De Marie Church, French Old Village, Da Lat railway station, Linh Phuoc Pagoda, Da Lat Teacher’s Training College.
Code tour: Vietnam Day Trips 39
Da Lat Day trip
Code tour: Vietnam Day Trips 39
Pick-up / Drop-off: at your hotel in Da Lat City
Tour itinerary:
We pick you up at your hotel in Da Lat City center for a day tour to visit:
In the morning:
• Da Lat Clay Sculptures Tunnel: is a carved dry ditch about 1.2 km long beside Tuyen Lam Lake. Here, visitors seem to be stay in the fairy world with countless unique art sculptures; and especially the clay house is full facilities. All of them were made of red soil in Da Lat which was mixed with stone powder and cement.
• Crazy House: No hotel or lodging could be more bizarre than this crazy house. The deformed walls, the forest climbers are carved around the house and twisting stairs. This building is taken from the surrealistic art of Savaldor Dali ( Spain ). The beds are placed in rooms like calcined cauldrons, while the window frame is covered with grille as a spider web. Overall, the mansion looks like a huge candle which is melting in the heart of the city.
• Domaine De Marie Church: The design of this church is a unique architecture which bears the European architecture style of 17th century and the traditional architecture style of the locality. The most unique point of this church is that its roofs are similar to the roofs of the communal houses of ethnic minority in Central Highlands.
• French Old Village: You will be delightfully surprised when you see a complex of French villas with ancient architecture found only in Northern France ( Normandy ). There have thirteen villas all together. Each villa has a different style, set within a forest of flowers and pines.
Have lunch & take the rest at local restaurant.
In the afternoon:
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• Da Lat railway station: was designed by architect Reveron with Ang-normand architecture style with was affected the modern style. Then architecture Moncet designed some more details and supervised the construction. It was built in 1935 and finished in 1938. This is the unique and beautiful construction of Dalat.
• Linh Phuoc Pagoda: was built from debris of glass, pottery bowls and porcelain between 1949 and 1952 in a remote residential area of Da Lat City. The pagoda has been led by many Buddhist monks and was renovated by Monk Thich Tam Vi in 1990. It is now like the sanctuary of a worshipping place and the unique architecture of Asian pagodas.
• Da Lat Teacher’s Training College: the former name is Lycee Yersin. This is the architecture with the combination of Western and Oriental architecture style. It was designed by architects Moncet and Ernest Hebrard. According to the International Union, this construction is one of the World’s typical 1,000 constructions in 20th century.
Return to your hotel and ends of the trip
✓ Inclusion: Land transport, all entrance fees, car, Lunch, English speaking tour guide, bottle of water.
✓ Exclusion: Personal expenses and other things are not mentioned