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Da Lat, or Dalat [1] (Vietnamese: Đà Lạt; Vietnamese pronunciation: [ɗâː làːt̚] ⓘ), is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province and the largest city of the Central Highlands region in Vietnam. The city is located 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level on the Langbian Plateau. Da Lat is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Vietnam ...
The Lâm Viên Plateau (also called Đà Lạt Plateau, Lang Biang Plateau) [1] is a plateau in southeastern Vietnam.At its centre is the city of Da Lat.Several mountains in this area rise to over 2,000 m (6,562 ft), the highest being Chư Yang Sin Summit [] (Ede: Čư Yang Sin; Vietnamese: đỉnh núi Chư Yang Sin) at 2,442 m (8,012 ft).
In 2010, "Block C" went into construction which would add 5,000m² to the Cho Da Lat complex. [3] Although the structure stood as the most prominent in the city for decades, the rapid development of Dalat as a tourist destination as well as a point of commerce soon made the market one of the smallest in a neighborhood of high-rise hotels. [ 4 ]
Linh Phước Temple (Vietnamese: Chùa Linh Phước, Chữ Hán: 靈福寺, IPA: [t͡ɕûə̯ līŋ fwə̂kˀ]), also known as Ve Chai Temple, is located at No. 120 Tu Phuoc, Trai Mat District, Vietnam, 8 km from Da Lat city center, on Highway 20. The 49-meter-long dragon temple is made of 12,000 bottles; the dragon's head is 7 metres high. [1]
The temple is located outside the centre of Da Lat. From the district of Hòa Bình in the city centre of Da Lat, the temple is located at a turnoff on the road from the city centre towards Prenn Hill, the temple is near the Tuyền Lăm Lake, located on Phượng Hoàng Hill. [1]
Linh Sơn Temple is located on top of a small hill at 120 Nguyễn Văn Trỗi Street, in the second ward, approximately 700 m northwest of the centre of Da Lat. The temple was built starting in 1938 and it was completed and opened in 1940.
French novelist Morgan Sportès, in his depiction of Indochina during WW2, has described it as reminiscent of the Negresco Hotel, in Nice. [3] When economic circumstances changed, later in the 1920s, most plans for government structures in Dalat were abandoned, leaving the town with a Palace Hotel as its monumental centerpiece.
The St. Nicholas Cathedral (Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Chính tòa Đà Lạt, French: Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas) also called St. Nicholas of Bari Cathedral (Nhà thờ Chính tòa Thánh Nicola Bari) is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Đà Lạt, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City (alternatively still called Saigon), located in Da Lat, the capital of Lam Dong province ...