Đại Nam Văn Hiến is a tourism complex in Bình Dương Province, Vietnam. Open on September 11, 2008, Dai Nam Tourist – Cultural – Historical Zone includes the first safari in Vietnam and the largest artificial sea in Southeast Asia[1] .
The construction of the largest tourism site started in about 1999, on a 450 hectare plot of land, about 40 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City. The Paradise now includes the Đại Nam Văn Hiến Temple, an entertainment site, zoo, shopping area, hotels, and cuisine sites. The 12.5ha open zoo is part of the 450ha Lac Canh Đại Nam Văn Hiến Entertainment Complex. The park is home to rhinos, white lions, tigers, elephants, bears, ostriches, chamois, zebras, gnus, squirrel-monkeys, and foxes, many of which are not typically found in Viet Nam.
Dai Nam Park encompasses a shopping center, hotel, movie theater, theme park, campground, water park, zoo, rides and numerous temples. Its cost for building Dai Nam about VND 3,000 billion.
Đại Nam Văn Hiến includes a 5,000 square-meter temple – a replica of the main temple in Hue – with a lotus-shaped flag tower and 13.5 kilometer wall. Outside of the complex lies Bao Son, which at 63 meters tall and 250 meters in length is the biggest man-made mountain in Vietnam. The five peaks and the Bao Thap Tower are a scaled-down version of Ngu Hanh Son Mountain in Da Nang on the central coast. Inside Bao Thap Tower are nine theme-based altars, one on each level, to venerate the country’s founders and important figures of Vietnam’s history like Ho Chi Minh, Tran Hung Dao and the Trưng Sisters, who lived from 12-43 AD.