Suoi Tien Theme Park

This guide to Suoi Tien Theme Park traces its start as a small reptile farm breeding snakeskin for export, and the man known as Labor Hero, Dinh Van Vui, who looked at that pond of crocodiles and pythons and saw something else entirely. It follows the deliberate choice of Vietnam's reunification day in 1995 to reopen the site as a cultural park built around the dragon, unicorn, tortoise, and phoenix of Vietnamese folklore. Walk past the concrete statues of the legendary dragon father and fairy mother said to have parented the Vietnamese people, rendered the size of buildings.