Hang Nga, the daughter of the President, studied architecture in Moscow and after working for awhile took up her life’s work to create this magical place to remind people of  nature. It has guest rooms with animal themes and guests can watch TV in the living room below in the evening. She is now old, the building continues while she lives in a private side of the fantasy house, in the upper left photo, directing construction.  When first built the local people and communist party wanted to demolish it for being nonconformist. They had just demolished a building with 100 roofs for that reason. She wrote a letter to Hanoi’s central government and it eventually was approved. She had gone into debt with banks and friends to get it built. Truly heroic. 

We had a chance to have dinner with the lovely couple above. She was a local TV news reporter then producer, he a higher up at the airport. They have two AIR BnB rooms for retirement income. After our tribal visits, their nice home was a fun change. The college students below gave me a tour of their college. They had to pick their major ,  teaching, before Freshman year. It was second choice after failing the police exam’s math questions for one. College kids will politely stop tourists tto pracice English in parks.