Vietnam: Dalat Palace Hotel (2007)

When construction of this monumental hotel (then known as the 'Lang Bian Palace') was completed in 1922, it immediately became the nerve-center for 'proper' French colonial society in this chilly mountain resort.

It survived the French-Indochina and American Wars, but fell into disrepair after 1975.

When Vietnam re-opened to foreign visitors and investors in the late 1980's among those who came to Vietnam was Larry Hillblom, the co-founder and the "H" of express-delivery company DHL.

He fell in love with Vietnam and the Palace hotel, spending $40 million of his fortune to restore the run-down 43-room hotel.

Tragically, Mr. Hillblom died when his vintage seaplane crashed on a flight from Pagan Island to Saipan on May 21 1995.

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[thangco11]

@VOLUPTASxx there were 7 ghost houses in Dalat with bad luck and this guy bought all these house and then died in a crash ( a mystery ?). in my neighborhood in US there is a house that any one move in will have financial problem and have to move out quickly something in this world is unexplained by science.

[VOLUPTASxx]

Actually they never found his body, and he wasnt flying from Pagan. He was flying from Saipan to Tinian, but he and the pilot trainer crashed on Tinian. The trainer was killed, but Hillblom jst messed up his eye. But somehow he ended up in Pagan.

[777Thinking]

Peaceful and elegant.

[WATINTHEWORLD88]

Thxs for this video

[Jimmyeva01]

thang ca'n ngo^' viet cong nay quay khach san nay lam gi vay? noi nay tao dua gai mai dam vo day lam tinh hoai ma