If Hue is famous for many unique constructions, including must be mentioned the famous An Bang Cemetery. Tombs of hundreds of millions to several billion VND are mushrooming after rain. Why does a fishing village once have an extremely poor period and must lead each other to beg to become so luxurious? Behind the most lavish tombs in Vietnam are stories that not everyone knows.

An Bang Cemetery is famous not only in Vietnam but also in the world and is referred to by domestic people and foreign newspapers with fine words such as "An Bang ghost city", "city of the dead", " villa area of

1. An Bang cemetery interesting facts

1.1. The story in the pass

An Bang village is originally a poor fishing village, the life of the people here mainly depends on the fishing and fishing near the shore, so the people's life is still deprivation and misery

1.2. The dire competition to build tomb

The competition to build a big and beautiful tomb is very fierce, many families have finished building for a long time, immediately demolish the old tomb area to make it more spectacular and more beautiful. Many people, though still alive but have been built graves, so many steles only show the year of birth but not the year of death because its owner is still healthy.

1.3. The strange jobs

The increasing number of tombs has created quite stable jobs with relatively good income for masons, porcelain mosaic workers, and carvers in the area. Many people from neighboring districts also get jobs such as towing cars, carrying materials, or building an auxiliary lake to build a mausoleum.

Not only that, other services such as lighting incense, turning on electricity at night, cleaning, and protecting the tomb also give people an income of 2 to 3 million VND / person per month. On Tet holiday is due to high demand and high work, so the wage level is also increased significantly. Because of these reasons, the cemetery of An Bang village was dubbed the place where "the dead raise the living".

1.4. The most valish tombs in Hue and Vietnam

Because of its enormous size and sophisticated architecture, the cost of making tombs in An Bang is very high, an average of 50.000 dollars/ tomb. There are "super tomb" costing 200.000 dollars, which takes more than half a year of construction with dozens of workers to complete.

2. An Bang cemetery location

3. An Bang cemetery structure

4. How to get there