The Heritage Tourism in Dalat Vietnam

Dalat attracts tourists by not only its natural landscape but also its typical heritages which have been preserved in the city. 

Heritage of French architecture in Dalat

Dalat is considered as “Le petit Paris” thanks to its public constructions (of about 1,500 villas in the city) which were built in different historical periods, of which most are of French architecture with typical villas, palaces which modeled different constructional style of many areas of France.

Dalat is also a place of many French heritages in Vietnam with various famous constructions, such as Yersin Secondary School (now Dalat Teacher Training College), Dalat Railway Station, main Cathedral, Domaine Church, Geography House, palaces of French officers, and Nguyen Dynasty in Le Lai St, Tran Hung Dao St, Nguyen Du St and some other streets in the city. Each construction reflects its owner’s hobby and lifestyle of his/her region of France. Tourists are absolutely attracted by European constructional styles, which are both luxurious and ancient, of all the villas in Dalat with various types of architecture as well as their garden surrounding.

Photo series of MPK photographer https://www.dalattrip.com/heritage-of-ancient-european-architecture-in-dalat-city

 

Woodblocks of Nguyen Dynasty

Traveling to Dalat, most tourists love to visit The National Archives Centre IV in Da Lat City – Tran Le Xuan Palace to admire precious books and documents made from woods under Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam. This is the largest place preserving woodblocks of Nguyen Dynasty with 34,618 sheets. They were all finely carved on wood as manuscript of books and documents issued by National History Department of Nguyen Dynasty in 1920s as well as records at Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam (Hanoi) brought from Hanoi to Hue in 1940s by order of Minh Mang King. In 1960, these priceless woodblocks were brought from Hue to Dalat Warehouse Representative for preservation. At present, all of them are kept at National Archives Centre IV and introduced at Tran Le Xuan villa at No.2 Yet Kieu street, Dalat city, Vietnam.

Woodblocks of Nguyen Dynasty is the first document recognized Document Heritage of the World by UNESCO (July 31st 2009). About Tran Le Xuan Palace https://www.dalattrip.com/tran-le-xuan-palace

 

Lam Dong Museum – The typical cultures of Ethnic minorities in Central Highland

This is the most interesting address of your journey to discover the Southern Central Highland region. Coming here, you will not only have a chance to discover typical native cultures of ethnic minorities of this land, but be also able to admire many precious heritages of different historical periods of Lam Dong province, such as the followings.

Collection of gold pieces which were engraved or embossed with male/female saints with sacred animals or documents written by ancient Sanskrit (ancient India).

Huge collection of Linga – Yoni made from various materials, such as gold, silver, bronze, etc., of which, a Linga – Yoni collection has been recognized by Vietnam Guinness as the greatest collection in Vietnam (December 26th 2004), and maybe the greatest in Asia. Golden sheet as well as Linga – Yoni collections are all found at Cat Tien monument which was built about 1,000 years ago. Up to now, the presence as well as disappearance of its owner has still been a secret. (Linga – Yoni is the main object of worship ceremony in temples of inhabitants of Brahmanism and Hinduism).

Visiting Lam Dong museum, tourists will have a chance to admire “the most ancient stone musical instruments” which were discovered deep under the ground of Southern Central Highland. According to a recent survey, Lam Dong is the place of many stone musical instruments in Vietnam, and Lam Dong Museum keeps the largest collection of stone musical instruments (with over 100 pieces in different collections). These collections’ age is about 2,500 to 3,000 years old. About Lam Dong Museum https://www.dalattrip.com/lamdong-museum

Besides, various outstanding ancient and cultural collections of UNESCO ancient ruin clubs in Dalat will please tourists who love to discover cultural heritages of this land.

 

By DBN

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