Thuy Tien Lake is a famous tourist destination of the ancient capital of Hue (Photo: Baolonq)

After appearing on domestic and foreign newspapers, Hue’s Thuy Tien Lake Park has reached the top of the world’s famous haunted and mysterious abandoned lakes. This is one of the interesting destinations when traveling to Hue , attracting many adventurous tourists.

The address of Ho Thuy Tien Hue tourist area is located on Thien An hill , in Thuy Bang commune, Huong Thuy town, about 10km southwest of Hue city center.

Hue Thuy Tien Lake Water Park was built in 2000, and was completed in June 2004 with an area of ​​49.9 hectares, with many items such as aquarium, ecosystem, water music area… with great power. contains 2,500 seats and is gradually put into operation. 

However, after completion, the project did not achieve the desired business performance and was forced to close. After being transferred investment and management rights, Ho Thuy Tien tourist area in Hue became an abandoned park for a long time.

Until 2016, Huffingtonpost.com (USA) had an article providing desolate and ghostly images of this tourist area. Since then, Ho Thuy Tien Park in Hue has become famous as a somewhat mysterious and scary tourist destination.

2. Directions to Hue Thuy Tien Lake

Ho Thuy Tien Water Park in Hue is not far from Khai Dinh Pagoda. Getting here is quite easy, you can go by motorbike or taxi. 

From the center of Hue city, tourists travel along Le Duan street toward Da Vien bridge. When arriving at Phan Chu Trinh, turn right onto Dien Bien Phu street. When you finish Dien Bien Phu street, you continue to turn right to Le Ngo Cat and then turn left to Minh Mang – Khai Dinh. Next, turn right onto Thuy Tien, go about 1km further to reach Thien An hill. Here, visitors can park their car below and then walk to Thuy Tien Lake.

In addition, to travel safely and quickly, visitors can choose the transportation service of Xanh SM taxi.

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In Hue, XANH SM is providing diverse services to customers: standard taxi, airport shuttle taxi or Thuan An beach tour from only 200,000 VND, package tour to mausoleums in the inner city from only 550,000 VND. VND, one-way package to famous destinations such as: Lang Co Bay , Linh Ung Pagoda .. only from 350,000 VND, two-way package with 50% discount on the return trip.

Customers can quickly book a car through 04 ways:
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(2) Wave the car on the street like a traditional taxi
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(4) Book a car through the beVinFast service on the beVinFast multi-service consumer platform

Thuy Tien Lake seen from above (Photo: Collected)

Besides finding the shortest route, choosing a place to stay also plays a very important role so that visitors can have an interesting trip of discovery. Melia Vinpearl Hue is an ideal choice for tourists because of its perfect amenities and services, and its location near the famous entertainment areas of the ancient capital of Hue.

3. Attractive activities to explore and visit Thuy Tien Lake

Due to being abandoned for a long time, the campus of Ho Thuy Tien Hue water park has been degraded and rusted quite a lot. It all evokes in visitors the feeling of discovering a mysterious and magical world, like stepping into a horror movie scene.

3.1. Check-in the dragon symbol in Thuy Tien Lake in Hue

One of the places that many tourists check in at Hue’s Thuy Tien Lake abandoned park is the dragon’s mouth facing the lake. The dragon statue is extremely majestic, mysterious and somewhat scary. Just choose the shooting angle cleverly, you will get countless beautiful, unique photos with mysterious yet romantic colors. 

The dragon symbol is the most popular check-in location at Hue Thuy Tien Lake (Photo: Collected)

3.2. Explore Ho Thuy Tien Hue Aquarium

The aquarium amusement park was invested and elaborately built, and is the highlight of the park. However, over the years, only ruins remained with walls full of moss and dust. According to reviews of Hue Thuy Tien Lake by previous tourists, you can try setting foot inside the aquarium. Here, there are only intact fish tanks and patchy walls covered with drawings, making the space more magical and desolate.

The magical scene here (Photo: Collected)

Moving up the spiral staircase, you will reach the dragon’s head. Here, you can look far away to fully admire Thuy Tien Lake and in the distance is the green Thien An hill. Although somewhat scary and mysterious, this is also the unique attraction of this project.

3.3. Visit the lake and water music stage

Tourists should try walking through the forest to reach the water park not far from the aquarium. There is a system of slides covered with moss and a turbid, somewhat creepy lake.

The lake is an attraction not to be missed when coming to Thuy Tien Lake (Photo: Collected)

An equally interesting and mysterious destination is the water music stage. The rows of seats with a capacity of more than 2,500 seats are now covered with weeds, the stage is full of moss… Looking at this dilapidated scene, it is hard to imagine that this place once held concerts. musical performance with thousands of viewers.

3.4. Take photos next to the only vintage blue car in Ho Thuy Tien

Right on the pine hill near Hue’s Thuy Tien Lake is an ancient artifact that attracts many young people to admire and check in, which is an ancient car made from stone. The shape and blue color of the car are exactly like the cars of the Western aristocracy of the last century.

Don’t forget to check-in next to the ancient green stone car (Photo: Collected)

To make the visit and discovery of Hue Thuy Tien Lake more complete, visitors first need to choose a satisfactory resort address. Melia Vinpearl Hue with full amenities and good service quality is one of the top choices of tourists from all over when coming to Hue