Dinh Vua Mèo

Beautiful peace of architecture. Mix of Vietnamese (wood walls), chienese (windows ornaments) and French (glass windows and fireplaces) architecture. Quite big mansion with 2 towers (don't enter top floor, wood seems to be not safe anymore). Compliex is quite empty, but it's wort to visit the building and meet the history of powerful man in the north. I recommend visiting, many shops and Coffe spots, toilets avalible. Big parking for cars and bikes.

Was a nice stop on our four day tour. It's an older structure somewhat preserved, it helped having someone with us to explain the history otherwise would be difficult. Make sure to go to the top and they have a fake armory with toy guns you can use.

We really enjoyed our visit with a guide. We saw many people make a quick pass through, but they missed so much information! There isn't any signage to help you learn about the history.

Beautiful place!! If you are traveling to North Vietnam you should totally stop here, it's a cute little palace with great views of the mountains and very touristic. I would spent the whole day here!

King of Ha Giangs residence. Cool to see, lots of amenities close by as well.

A charming reminder of humbler times and a humbler king. The architecture of the palace is quite different from most palaces in Vietnam. There is a uniqueness to this place given its position between 2 cultures (Vietnam and China.) The palace is located in the middle of a valley of high peaks and by a very lively plaza.
Great location and visit!
30k VND entrance per adult.

Interesting spot for visiting. The structure was mix between Hmong and China. The yin yang tile roof, front part build by wood. Behind is stone defense fortress. Ticket is 20.000d about 1$. Parking are free.

Sorry I can't give an informative experience of my visit. After travelling all day by motorbike too get there I was just plain tired. Looking back what shame! But It was all part of " great journey ". Will research some more when I return home, or even return again. 🤔

This place is AMAZING! To see the history and able to have your your guide explain the history of this place you can’t go wrong visiting this and seeing how gorgeous and historic it is.

In the history this was the house of King Meo people in Vietnam.
The peaceful place cover with mountains and trees. The air is very fresh and cool.

Really nice small palace in the hills, if you can select an slot between the bike groups

This is an ancient and unique place of Vietnamese people on the high mountain. There’re Beautiful spaces and many artifacts still preserved today. This place is also beautiful to take pictures of and look like old China

To be shared a fantastic story about Vua Mèo and his contribution to community.

A historic stop along the scenic ha giang route. Home to the last royal family to have ruled the highlands of Vietnam.

Neat small palace of a H'mong king. Takes about ten to fifteen minutes to walk around and they charge you like 20,000. There's some shops and a toilet here.

An impressive "castle" that's well worth going!

It’s great for the people who are interested in historical spots.

The palace is located on the valley that was carefully selected according to feng shui. This is a national monument, recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 1993.

Vuong's Palace is home to Vuong Duc Chinh and his son Vuong Chi Sinh. Vuong Duc Chinh was a mandarin under Nguyen Dynasty. He worked for Hoang Tu Binh, a land lord in the area. Vuong Chinh Duc succeeded Tu Hoang Binh when Binh were old.

Vuong Chinh Duc became rich from dealing goods, especially opium. Sa Phin is the middle point of opium from the Golden Triangle region of Myanmar Yunnan China to Indochina. Duc also set up his own army unit of loyal Hmong people and equipped them with weapons.

And, like the other land lords in the history of Viet Nam, he built his palace, a mansion of his own as a way to enjoy his wealth and assert power.

When embarking on building a mansion for his clan, Duc invited a geomancy reader from China to survey the region and throughout the valley Sa Phin. The geomancy man chose this area, because the terrain here emerged as a turtle shell, which represents long life and wealth

Over a long time of wars, many of the architecture works around were completely dissolved, but the King is still there, not a piece of bombs, bullets which fell into. There are opinions that the palace is located between the small valley, surrounded by a rocky mountain with sheer cliffs. Bullets were either stopped by this side or otherwise missed to the other side of the valley.

After selecting a piece of land like that, Vuong Chinh Duc spent 8 years and about 150,000 coins of silver. Most construction workers were from China and the most skillful craftsmen of Hmong. The wooden parts were sophisticatedly engraved which represented his wealth and prosperity.

Through the lines of ancient Sa Moc trees which stand pensively in front of the main gate, The palace were built with 4 horizontal and 6 vertical rows, 2 stories and 64 rooms. Over a long period of time, the building has partly been spoiled but still remains in its original figure.

At the back of the building are two horizontal rows on the two sides, linked together by doors. To protect his mansion, Vuong Chinh Duc also built stone walls with holes and post for his men to guard all day and night.

There were also a food store, underground room to keep opium, weapons and materials of living. Especially, the semicircular swimming bath is chiseled from a giant block of stone which was for the King to have his bath with goat milk. That's why how difficult the road was that the King still had 555 cigarettes available.

There have been many stories mysterious even fabulous relating to Vuong family, for example, the walls are inserted gold inside...

But there is one truth about this family, when the Japanese came to Vietnam to overthrow the French, the secret guerilla of Vuong Chinh Duc and Vuong Chi Sinh helped Vietnam communists drive the French off in Ha Giang area.

After the success of the August Revolution, President Ho Chi Minh invited Vang Chi Sinh to take part in the first parliament.

Amazing fort / palace of ancient king / opium lord. Not too many tourists when we visited.

Must visit place in Dong Van area. King Meo Place with typical tradional architectue, remained ancient structure.