A Crazy Day Out

During May this year Moon and I visited the romantic city of Da Lat in Vietnam.

One of the places we came to visit in this small city was 'Hang Nga Guesthouse' which in English translates to Moon Guesthouse. It's also popularly known as Crazy House. The owner of the hotel calls herself Hang Nga. She's an architect by trade and has made the building of this hotel her 'Life' project.

You can stay at this hotel and experience its wonders at small cost.

The hotel has been made to appear weird and wonderful with a naturalistic theme. Each room in the guesthouse has an animal theme.

Fancy sharing a night in a room with a glowing red-eyed tiger?

I loved her 'crazy' furnishing style and colours. One thing for sure, Hang Nga has a passion for mirrors by the bed... She's got a rather naughty mind! I like that!

See what I mean by mirrors and beds. Every bedroom in this guesthouse featured a mirror viewing the bed. This particular guest room was split on two levels. The toilet, shower and relaxing area was downstairs and to get to this bedroom you had to climb up narrow winding stairs.

I love the twists and turns in the wooden structures of her house with outside corridors and passage ways.

Her guesthouse is still under construction and is an ongoing project. At the present Hang Nga believes she will finish sometime around 2010. One of the impressive things about this place is that integrates the trees and plants well with her buildings. She has aimed for a harmony with nature. In that respect I believe she has done really well.

A part of her guesthouse structure features a giraffe. And here I'm standing behind it! I just love it! I really do!

Hang Nga has designed into the walls anatomical features of both animals and humans. Like this Cacophony of boobies!

The dining room is perhaps the nearest you are going to see in this house that has any resemblance to being normal. Even here the design and layout remains impressionable. Now to let you into a little secret! The picture on the wall is her father, Truong Chinh, who was the president of Vietnam from 1981 to 1987. To think that we met the daughter of a former president of Vietnam! Many tourists and visitors to the guesthouse are oblivious to this interesting information. We found Hang Nga very approachable and friendly. She is seen working many days in the guesthouse ticket office and even when she isn't there, you can find her at her design studio.

Mirror mirror on the wall! Who's the Craziest of them all? Is it Hang Nga the owner of Crazy House in Dalat, or is it My Hang Nga? Well, I'll leave that assessment with you readers. What I do know is that I found this guesthouse to be a wonderful inspiration and not at all crazy! Walking through the many passage ways and rooms of this house with my Dear made me feel Crazy in love with my Crazy Hair Dear... But it's crazy only because She is crazily the most beautiful woman this crazy world of the Earth and Moon has made for me!

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dianeoart wrote on Oct 21 Nice tour....I really enjoyed this place, great blog. :)

jansen68 wrote on Oct 21 What a beautiful place! Thanks for sharing!!!

absynthedeath wrote on Oct 21 Yet again, I read a blog where I realize that there is another place to add to my list of places I want to visit and people I want to meet! That red-eyed tiger might have been a bit scary trying to sleep at night, though.

arolkayalkfay wrote on Oct 21 So many wonderful places to visit. Thanks for the tour.

aramink wrote on Oct 21 What a cool place! I love seeing unique things and places to stay. I would definitely try to book a room here if I was traveling in the area.

herbaliva wrote on Oct 22 Wow, I have never seen anything like it.