Hoa Lo Prison in downtown Hanoi has been listed as one of five "macabredestinations" in Southeast Asia, according to CNN Travel.
In thearticle titled Dark tourism: 5 macabre Southeast Asia destinationsposted on CNN's website, the piece describes the multimedia approachused to depict the horrific past of the former prison.
The prisonwas built by the French in 1896 to jail Vietnamese patriots. It wasalso used to hold US pilots grounded by the Vietnamese armed forcesduring the American air war against North Vietnam in the 1960's andearly 1970's.
The prison was dubbed by American inmates as "Hanoi Hilton".
"Dungeon-dimlighting and effigies of shackled prisoners are combined withexpressionistic etchings of inmates on the courtyard walls, grainy filmfootage of aerial combat scenes and an actual French guillotine used tobehead Vietnamese prisoners, to provide a level of physical andpsychological immersion that feels like incarceration," the articlesaid.
Other "macabre Southeast Asia destinations" that werementioned in the article included the Bangkok Forensic Medicine Museum,and the Tsunami tombstones in Ban Nam Khem - both in Thailand.
The Killing Fields in Cambodia and the Penang War Museum in Malaysia also made the list.-VNA
In thearticle titled Dark tourism: 5 macabre Southeast Asia destinationsposted on CNN's website, the piece describes the multimedia approachused to depict the horrific past of the former prison.
The prisonwas built by the French in 1896 to jail Vietnamese patriots. It wasalso used to hold US pilots grounded by the Vietnamese armed forcesduring the American air war against North Vietnam in the 1960's andearly 1970's.
The prison was dubbed by American inmates as "Hanoi Hilton".
"Dungeon-dimlighting and effigies of shackled prisoners are combined withexpressionistic etchings of inmates on the courtyard walls, grainy filmfootage of aerial combat scenes and an actual French guillotine used tobehead Vietnamese prisoners, to provide a level of physical andpsychological immersion that feels like incarceration," the articlesaid.
Other "macabre Southeast Asia destinations" that werementioned in the article included the Bangkok Forensic Medicine Museum,and the Tsunami tombstones in Ban Nam Khem - both in Thailand.
The Killing Fields in Cambodia and the Penang War Museum in Malaysia also made the list.-VNA
