Dalat - the city of romance and flowers of Vietnam

If you want to find a tranquil, romantic and beautiful place in Vietnam to visit and especially to enjoy your honeymoon, Dalat is the best choice for you. The city is actually the city of romance of Vietnam. Going to the city, visitors will feel the tranquility and romance with hundreds of flowers. Let’s find out more about it. 

Dalat - The romantic city of Vietnam

Located in the central highland of Vietnam, Dalat has a perfect weather that is not so hot in the summer and not so cold in the winter that the weather in Dalat is quite similar to the one in the Mediterranean. The city is so great and beautiful that it was chosen as the place for Vietnamese Kings and the French colonists in the 19^th century to build resorts and villas.

Xuan Huong Lake next to the Love Valley

Xuan Huong Lake right in the center of the city should be the first place to visit. The lake stands next to the so-called Love valley is the two most attractive and romantic sites in Dalat that are certainly perfect for couples. Besides, Dalat is viewed as the heaven of flowers of Vietnam. Owing to its perfect weather and terrains, there are numerous kinds of beautiful and colorful local and popular flowers in Dalat. Therefore, a lot of small flower gardens across the city. Especially, a big flower festival is held in the city every year attracting tens of thousands of visitors come and enjoy beauty of the flowers.

Beautiful Pongour Fall

In Dalat, the mountains, lakes and falls are also the best things to explore. Langbian Mountain, Prenn and Pongour Falls, Tuen Lam and Xuan Huong Lakes can not be missed when coming to the city. Dalat also owns a rich culture of the local people. Gongs of the local people have been awarded as the world intangible heritage. People will have a great chance to ride horses or elephants to go around the city. This is sure to be a unique and unforgettable experience for visitors.

Perfume Pagoda - the holiest site of Vietnamese religion

Buddhism is the main religion in Vietnam. Therefore, visitors can easily find out a numerous number of pagodas and shrines dedicated to Buddhism in the country. However, different from Thailand where Buddhism is also the principal religion, the architectures of pagodas in Vietnam are totally different. While in Thailand, people will see many pagodas like the Golden Temple, in Vietnam people must see the Huong Pagoda, the most outstanding symbol of Vietnamese Buddhism architectures.

The Yen river on the way to the Huong Pagoda complex

Just a 30-minue drive from Hanoi, Huong Pagoda is the holiest site in Vietnam. Huong Pagoda is actually a great complex of numerous Buddhism temples on a mountain called Huong or Perfume near to the Yen River. It is said that the first temple in Huong Pagoda was constructed nearly 600 years ago on the top of the mountain. The temples used to be the chief religious sites of Northern Vietnamese monks.

The main holy site of Huong Pagoda in the Huong Cave

Annually, the Huong Festival is held and it lasts from the middle of January to the middle of March. The festival is the longest one in Vietnam and attracts the biggest number of pilgrims across the country. The scene in the Huong Pagoda is like a peaceful heaven for visitors to explore. On the route to the Huong Mountain where the temples are placed, people have to take a trip along the beautiful and tranquil Yen River. The green water of the Yen River is so clear. Travelers will have a chance to sit on the small boat getting alongside the river and contemplate the harmonization between the river and mountain. In order to reach the temples on the Huong mountain, visitors nowadays can have two options of hiking or chairlift. Most of the Vietnamese travelers will choose the first option of climbing up to the temples. It is because of the fact that the Buddhism teaches people to experience the hardship and then the accomplishment will be fully and happily enjoyed. The trip from the foot to the top of the mountain is about 4 kilometers. Huong Tich cave on the mountain is where the main temple is placed. Around this main holy site are numerous temples and shrines for visitors to explore their unique architectures and shapes.

One of the temples in the Huong Pagoda complex

The trip to the Huong pagoda to Vietnamese people is not just a traveling, but it also a real hardship to challenge people. The beauties of the river, mountain and sceneries in addition to the tranquility and peace of the holy site will certainly make every feel perfectly great. 

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