Introducing Tam Dao Hill Station

‘La Cascade d’Argent’ (Silver Waterfall) to the French, and Thac Bac to the Vietnamese, Tam Dao Hill Stationwas a popular place of escape from the heat of the Red River Delta. Founded in 1907 by the French, most of the grand old colonial villas were destroyed during the Franco–Viet Minh War in the 1950s and the ruins have since been replaced by Soviet-inspired, concrete-box architecture. A somewhat belated effort to restore some of the colonial villas is now under way.