Da Nang Fresco Village @ Vietnam

My visit to the Painted Animation Lane at Taichung was an eye-opener as it brought me down a memory lane when I was pretty obsessed with comic books! Therefore, when I saw a fresco village at Da Nang, we decided to check it out! 

Here's the unassuming entrance to the "village", according to Google Map. Nothing that confirmed I was at the right place and I guess the only way would be to step into the quiet lane! Thank god it was daytime.

We should be at the right place! Just wondering if the rickshaw / trishaw was a prop for the painted mural. For sure the stack of sugarcanes wasn't a prop since they were real! 

Pathway of brightly painted flowers underneath a set of windows that were colored in rainbow shades. Wondering further in to see if there's anything that will surprise us.

Just wondering if this was supposed to be a 3D painting.

It looks like something I encountered before at a trick eye museum. 

An altar in the middle of nowhere; it didn't appear to belong to a house and for a Chinese, I would assume this was for the earth deity or for the roaming ghosts.

More unexciting paintings.

Boring so far and not well maintained.

So many motorbikes parked and half covering the side walls were not exactly conducive to checking out the paintings too! By the way, do you know what fresco means? You might assume it's a bastardisation of alfresco but it's a "mural technique where water-based pigments are applied directly to wet plaster"! 

Finally, something that kind of represented the country.

An elderly hawker wearing a non-la.

Eye-catching, as rainbows always are. 

Although I think this could be a flower plantation? 

Another motorbike blocking the wall painting. It's inevitable given how popular motorbikes are in Vietnam; it was mentioned that for a population of 100 million people, there are over 77 million motorbikes! 

This mirror would give a scare to someone at night.

Who the hell put it there?! 

More wall murals. 

So far, 90% of the fresco paintings hardly impressed; this fell in the 10% of the those that were better and at least captivated my eyes and mind with its vibrant colors and the imaginative story of two butterflies falling in love at first sight.

Coming to the end, I figured. There were a fork to the lane and both didn't seem to have any further fresco painting. Oh well, I didn't think this Da Nang Fresco Village deserved a 4.0 on Google Maps but something good did come out from it as we chanced upon a hair salon shortly after where Alex had an amazing haircut experience costing just 70,000 dong! 

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Address

75 Đ. Nguyễn Văn Linh, Phước Ninh, 

Hải Châu, Đà Nẵng 550000, Vietnam

Map

As above.

Click here for my 8 Days' Itinerary to Danang (The City of Bridges) & Hoi An (The City of Lanterns) in Vietnam