{"id":3401,"date":"2018-07-22T00:44:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T08:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2018-07-22T00:58:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T08:58:14","slug":"crazy-house-a-royal-palace-july-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/?p=3401","title":{"rendered":"Crazy House & a Royal Palace July 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Da Lat Plaza hotel and restaurant are just generally much busier today than previous days. Breakfast was really quite busy as there appears to be a huge HUGE group of German tourists staying now? They are a feisty bunch to say the least! The day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agenda involves a place we heard about called the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCrazy House\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 here in Da Lat as well as a palace that was built in the 1930s for a now abdicated royal family. Given that we are here with a Brit I am going to say the standard for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPalaces\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is pretty high. More on that later…..<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Crazy House is just that. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like someone who was on a bad Ganga Trip decided to build a hotel. You can actually rent a room here, assuming that it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother you to have hundreds of tourists, who paid 50,000 dong ($2.50 usd), walking through all day long! It has high narrow stairways that lead to bridges several stories up in the sky.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The view of Da Lat from the top was quite spectacular!<\/p>\n

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There was an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcundersea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 room?? Quite well done and might be a fun place to rent your a function??<\/p>\n

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After that experience, we stopped at a bakery stand across the street and I had a really delicious piece of coconut cake and Troy had a brownie. Ritchie = Apple pie, Alice had ice cream and Vanna had banana cake. So we did right by them. Nothing was more than 39,000 dong so really delicious treats for $1.95 usd each. I really should have taken a photo!\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bao Dai Palace was next on our self guided walking tour. This is technically a royal palace despite the fact that it looks barely more than an American DOL from the outside.<\/p>\n

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It hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really been used in the last 70 years as far as I can tell from reading up on it and by evaluating the current condition. I guess when the emperor abdicated his throne in 1945 it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really get much use after that.<\/p>\n

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We had to put on booties over our shoes and a lot of areas were roped off, but it was pretty much open access to wander throughout. There is no effort put into upkeep at all. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s covered in dust and dirt and clearly taking a beating from the elements (sun, humidity etc). It cost 30,000 dong to get in ($1.50 usd) and despite the massive throngs of Chinese tourists we had to battle to get in and out, at that price, they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t probably generating enough income to really preserve the place! Plus it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not really \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpalacey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to say the least, but I guess compared to how the average Vietnamese person was living in 1935 when this was built, it was probably fairly posh?!\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

This is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153waiting room\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Displays of Royal linens and dishes<\/p>\n

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This is the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfamily room\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the queen and king used the couch, the two sons got the armchairs and the daughters got the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153other chairs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00f0\u0178\u2122\u201e\u00f0\u0178\u2122\u201e<\/p>\n

The princess\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bedroom (I guess they shared!)<\/p>\n

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The queen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bedroom<\/p>\n

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The stove…..\u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u00b3\u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u00b3<\/p>\n

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The kitchen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Da Lat Plaza hotel and restaurant are just generally much busier today than previous days. Breakfast was really quite busy as there appears to be a huge HUGE group of German tourists staying now? They are a feisty bunch to say the least! The day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agenda involves a place we heard about called the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}