Hang Nga Crazy Guest house Tip in Dalat City

A free-wheeling architectural expedition of surrealism, Hang Nga Crazy House is a joyously designed, insanely artistic personal house. Picture sculptured spaces connected by super-slim bridges rising out of a tangle of greenery, an excess of plunging lava-flow-like shapes, wild colours, spiderweb windows and a nearly organic quality to all of it, with the stroking hand rails looking like jungle vines. Believe Gaudi meeting Tolkien and dropping acid together.

The brainchild of owner Mrs Dang Viet Nga, the Crazy House has been an imaginative work in development considering that 1990. Hang Nga, as she's understood locally, has a PhD in architecture from Moscow and has designed a number of other structures around Dalat. One of her earlier masterpieces, the 'Home with 100 Roofs', was taken down as a fire risk because the People's Committee believed it looked antisocialist.

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Hang Nga began the Crazy House job to lure people back to nature, and though it's ending up being more over-the-top every year, she's not most likely to have anymore trouble with the authorities. Her father, Truong Chinh, was Ho Chi Minh's follower, working as Vietnam's second president from 1981 up until his death in 1988. There's a shrine to him in the ground-floor lounge.

A note of care for those with young kids: the Crazy House's maze of precarious tunnels, high walkways with low guard rails and steep ladders are definitely not child safe.