VietNamNet Bridge – They have unique architecture and there are built at billions dong. And of course, they belong to a wealthy family, or a “tycoon.”

Expensive tombs at the most luxurious cemetery in Vietnam

The population of the tombs is so magnificent and they look like mansions on the sand dunes in An Bang village.

The cemetery of An Bang village, in Vinh An commune, Phu Vang district, Thua Thien - Hue province, has been famous for a long time for expensive tombs, which were built at the cost of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

This place is known as the "city of the tombs" or the "ghost town" or the most sumptuous cemetery in Vietnam.

The white sandy beach here has gradually disappeared along with the appearance of tombs. Once visiting the cemetery, one will be overwhelmed like standing in front of a big garden of giant colorful mushrooms which are in various sizes, shapes and colors. But instead of growing in the forest, these mushrooms grow on the coast. The tombs are not isolated on the hillside or remote area but they stretch out along the sea, are interspersed with the houses of the living.

Although it is a cemetery, there is no gloom or the smell of incense smoke here. On the contrary, there is a feeling of joy bursting forth like looking at a painting with bright colors.

A luxury tomb here must meet the following criteria: having deep and firm foundation, luxury construction materials, being concrete and fully decorated animals in the four spiritual animals (unicorn, turtle, phoenix and dragon), having dragons along the steps, high hexagonal towers and elaborately carved sculptures.

A villager said, the little and old graves in this cemetery have been rebuilt. Many tombs that are worth over VND1 billion ($50,000) have been built in the last five years.

Dragons flanking the steps leading up to a tomb, in the style of a tomb of the Nguyen Dynasty emperors.

This is a nearly 800m2 tomb of a family in the An Bang cemetery. This is one of the most lavish tombs in the "tomb city."

The houses for the living are smaller and older than the homes of the dead.

Luxurious tombs in a poor fishing village

Tan My village in Quang Ngan commune, Quang Dien district, Thua Thien Hue province, is also known for hundreds of big tombs worth billion dong.

Like An Bang, tombs are built by the source of remittances sent from abroad.

The tombs here are built on hundreds of square meters of land and covered by glazed terra-cotta like Buddhist temples in Hue, with a lot of decorative works and the four supernatural creatures.

Each family has a shrine, consisting of any small tombs. To complete such a shrine, it takes several months or a year.


















Tombs worth millions of USD in Tay Ninh

The panorama of the cemetery.

The Son Trang Tien Canh manor is located in Truong Tho Hamlet, Truong Hoa commune, Hoa Thanh district, the southern province of Tay Ninh. The manor is back against the mysterious Ba Den Mountain and faces the romantic Vam Co Dong River.

Son Trang Tien Canh is built by a Malaysian on an area of about 100 hectares with a total budget of $120 million. By the huge investment amount in the cemetery, people usually refer to this place as the s cemetery of tycoons.

The most beautiful plots of land in the manor are priced between VND650 - VND750 million ($30,000-35,000)/grave, excluding construction costs. The graves here are usually built of granite or other kinds of very expensive rocks. Many people also burry valuable and unique assets with the dead, hoping that the dead can quickly go to the heaven.

This is one of the biggest tombs in the cemetery. The owner paid $60,000 for 100sq.m of land. He also paid nearly VND16 billion ($800,000) for granite, sedimentary rock and other kinds of stone to build his tomb.

This tomb is built on 200m2 in the prime location of the Son Trang Tien Canh cemetery. It is built by green granite and gray stone and is decorated by statues of a dragon, a tiger and a phoenix.

Expensive tombs in Hanoi

These tombs are located in the Vinh Hang cemetery park in Ba Vi district, Hanoi. This is the first private cemetery, developed by the Ao Vua JSC.

Situated on 36.88 hectares of land in the two communes of Phu Son and Vat Lai, the cemetery can accommodate thousands of tombs.

Each tomb is located on its own campus, with trees, lawns, entrances, walls ... as villas. There are also grave that have tables and chairs.

Close-up on a tomb with a unique architecture.

This massive tomb with modern architecture stands out among hundreds of other small shrines.

 

In front of the tomb are two soldier statues to guard the sleep of the deceased.

The massive shrine is divided into two parts: the front and the back. The back parts are the altar and the tomb.

Compiled by Le Ha