Natural feature
Thuy Tien Lake
Half-built dragon rising from a jungle lake, its rusted belly once holding sharks and crocodiles.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Thuy Tien Lake in Hue follows the strange financial life of a half built dragon water park, from a two thousand one groundbreaking meant to give the city a modern rival to its old sights, through a bankrupt opening and a Hanoi buyer whose promised rescue money never arrived. Along the way it visits the tanks that once held sharks and, for a time, live crocodiles, and the backpackers who got them moved out. Best heard standing at the water's edge, looking toward the unfinished waterslides.
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