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What to do and see in Da Lat, Lam Dong Province: The Best Museums
This former colonial resort provides a respite from Southern Vietnam's year-round swelter. The town is full of beautiful French-era buildings and surrounded by pine trees and farms growing exotic vegetables and flowers. It's worth the trip just to escape the heat for a few days.
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1. Trickland 3D Museum
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5.0 based on 8 reviews
Trick Land is the first 3D painting museum in Dalat, Vietnam. All paintings are done by Vietnamese artists. Welcome to an interesting and wonderful place where you can touch painting with your hands, become the main character of the painting, take pictures with it and feel it.
2. Lam Dong Museum
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4.5 based on 42 reviews
Reviewed By keivaj2018
Fascinating museum about Dalat and the local region of its with displays of regional Cham excavations, local ethnic groups, some fantastic incredibly ancient stone xylophones, lingaphones and several old photographs from the French times. There's additionally a lovely 1930s villa up the hill hooked up with the final king of Vietnam with period home furniture & fittings.
3. Da Lat King Palace I
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4.5 based on 66 reviews
Reviewed By _fntham - Clarendon Hills, United States
We learned a lot of history touring the palace and even paid a fee to dress up in their costumes for pictures as Emperor and Empress of Vietnam! Palace is well kept and the grounds well tendered. We enjoyed this place.
4. XQ Da Lat Art House
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4.5 based on 36 reviews
Reviewed By paulrP5054CI
Not really the thing you would expect to excite an older Aussie male but my mother was a seamstress and designer of fabrics and I decided to visit in her memory. There are actually two XO exhibits - one out of town near the Love Valley and this one in town. Not sure about the other one but this house would have blown my mother away. As everyone else mentions, the artistry and expertise is absolutely astounding, so much so that you really have to get close to realize that the frescos are actually embroidered, not painted. Some of the works are metres long and high and one can only imagine the amount of work and time that needed to be spent to create such masterpieces. Several rooms and floors to explore and there was at least one woman working on a new piece while I was there. Not at lot of english signage or spoken, so take your translator (virtual or real) with you. They also sell some small pieces of work and some lengths of silk, so take some spare cash with you as while not cheap but VIet standards, there are some really good deals on the cloth to be had. If you are bored, take the long (2km) walk out of town and along side of the lake - beautiful weather to do so, great views along the way and the XO Art House is really worth the effort.
5. Lam Ty Ni Pagoda
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4.0 based on 27 reviews
Eccentric Zen artist and poet Thay Vien Thuc is the main attraction at this popular pagoda; part monk and part sideshow, he creates personal on-the-spot paintings for any visitor willing to pay.
