- Đại Nam Văn Hiến
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For other uses, see Dai Nam (disambiguation).
Main workship place in Đại Nam Quốc Tự, with Buddha Amitābha, Hung Vuong, and Ho Chi Minh, what has sometimes become entangled in social controversies
Đại Nam Văn Hiến is a tourism complex in Binh Duong, Vietnam. Open on September 11th, 2008, Dai Nam Tourist - Cultural - Historical Zone includes the first safari in Vietnam and the largest artificial sea in Southeast Asia[1] and is expected to be the biggest park and tourist destination in the country by 2010.[2]
Đại Nam Sea is 21.6 hectare, with a total water surface area of 20,000 sq.m and coast of 1.4 km long. The artificial sea has beaches, with artificial waves up to 1.6m high.
The construction of the largest tourism site started in about 1999, on a 450 hectare plot of land, some 40 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City. The Paradise now includes the Dai Nam Van Hien Temple, an entertainment site, zoo, shopping area, hotels, and cuisine sites. The 12.5ha open zoo is part of the 450ha Lac Canh Dai Nam Van Hien Entertainment Complex. The park is home to rhinos, white lions, tigers, elephants, bears, ostriches, chamois, zebras, gnus, squirrel-monkeys, and foxes, many of which are not typically found in Viet Nam.
Dai Nam Van Hien, a huge tourism complex in the southern Vietnam, was opened on September 11, 2008 in Binh Duong Province. Dai Nam Tourist - Cultural - Historical Zone is expected to be the biggest park and tourist destination in the country by 2010. This area is about 450 hectares located in Thu Dau one, inh Duong <= 50 Kilometer away from HCMC. Dai Nam Park is a huge complex, encompassing a shopping center, hotel, movie theater, theme park, campground, water park, zoo, and numerous temples. Its cost for building Dai Nam about VND 3,000 billion. Dai Nam Van Hien look like a small freat wall. The park is so large that people get around by bus and electric train. The 12.5 ha open zoo is part of 450ha Lac Canh Van Hien. An assortment of thrilling rides such as the roller.
Marvelous
The 5.000 square-meter temple isn't an exact copy of the main temple in Hue but it's still impressive with its lotus-shaped flag tower and 13.5 kilometer wall that also encloses a 5.000 room hotel. Outside is Bao Son which at 63 meters tall and 250 meters in length, is the biggest man-made mountain in VietNam. The five peaks and the Bao Thap Tower are a scales-down version of Ngu Hanh Son Mountain in Da Nang on the central coast.
Inside Bao Thap Tower are nine theme-based altars, one on each level, to venerate the country's founders and later heroes and heroines like HO Chi Minh, Tran Hung Dao and the waeeioe sisters Hai Ba Trung, who lived from 12-43 AD.
Fun and Games
Built as a spiritual tourism spot that preserves the traditional culture and history of VietNam, Dai Nam is also well worth a visit by fun-seekers. An assorttment of thrilling rides such as the roller coaster on square ralls, electric car racing, water plume ride and the swing across the waterfall are similar to the offerings at Dam Sen, Suoi Tien or Nha Trang's Vinpearland except that they are larger in scale to challenge action enthusiasts. A state of the art 4D cinema may be a good alternative if you don't mind the sudden drop in temperature to minus 12 degrees Celsius inside Snow World, which is just around the corner. The admission price of VND 60.000 ) kids under 140 cm will get in free ) includes free floats, chairs and shower. Dai Nam also house Vietnam's first zoo where visitors can get a close up view of formerly wild animals.
The 12.5 hectare zoo has 76 species of birds, reptiles and mammals, including many rare animals such as white peacocks, white tigers and white hippos.
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