The Crazy House in Dalat is definitely the weirdest house you will see in Vietnam. You can visit this house or even better, stay here overnight. Because besides a tourist attraction, it is also a guesthouse. The actual name is Hang Nga Guesthouse. Mix Gaudi with Alice in Wonderland and you will end up with this weird house. It opens an exploration to surrealism in an crazy artistic private home. Image sculpted rooms connected by bridges, tangling of greenery including jungle vines, lot of colors and spiderweb windows.

Crazy House in Dalat Hang Nga Guesthouse

If you are brave enough you can stay a night at the Hang Nga Guesthouse and discover the place at night when all the tourists are gone. Otherwise it is worth a visit for maximum half an hour to one hour to see everything and to get lost in the maze of pathways through the different levels and sections of the compound. The entrance fee is around 40,000 VND ($1.7). The Crazy House is easily accessible, just over 1.5 kilometers outside Dalat city center. Every taxi driver knows the house. Certainly with children, the house is great to visit.

Hang Nga

Crazy House is the work of a Vietnamese architect and artist called Mrs Dang Viet Nga. Hang Nga has a PhD in architecture from Moscow and has designed more buildings around Dalat. One of her first works was the ‘House with 100 Roofs’. This building was burned down because the People’s Committee thought it looked anti socialist.

Hang Nga Dalat Hang Nga Crazy House Dalat

Hang Nga started the Crazy House project to bring the people back to nature. She found that the nature and the environment have been destroyed too much by humans. For this reason she wanted to bring people back to nature, to be more friendly with it and to love it; not just to make full use of it. Her dad was Trường Chinh. He was Ho Chi Minh’s successor, serving as Vietnam’s second president from 1981 until his death in 1988. You can find a shrine to him in the lounge on the ground-floor.

Staying overnight

You can visit the house, but you can stay overnight. Because besides a tourist attraction, it is also just a guesthouse. There are ten themed rooms, such as the tiger room, eagle room and the thermite room. All rooms are decorated according to the theme and decorated with handmade furniture. The rooms are connected by narrow bridges, surrounded by a swirling of greenery. Overnight stay costs about 35 dollar per night for a single room and about 60 dollar per night for a double room.

Hang Nga room Hang Nga Guesthouse room