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Tomb city in Vietnam has thousands of tombs built like palaces and sophisticated ceramic mosaics

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This cemetery with thousands of huge, colored tombs/mausoleums of all shapes. Therefore, the local people call it City of Ghosts.

An Bang Cemetery - City of Ghosts is located in An Bang Village, Phu Vang district of Thua Thien Hue province in Central Vietnam

The cemetery, with its brilliantly colored structures built on white sand. It stretches along the side of the road for 3 kilometers length. Some of the mausoleums could be a mistaken for mansions. Regal stone lions abound and glittering mosaic dragons adorn the roof-ridges. Sophisticated and elaborate ceramic mosaic tombs with various shapes and colors.

Unbelievable: "You may get lost and can't find your way out when entering this tomb city"

Some 90 percent of the villagers have overseas relatives. They send money home and much of these money are only to build tombs.

The town of ghosts has a region of over 40 hecta, There are more than 3000 tombs. The normal cost of every tomb is about 30, 000 USD - 200,000 USD . There are many tombs covering a thousand sq meters for every. These graves in Hue have it all types of Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism, Islam.

In a bizarre variation of keeping up with the Joneses, the villagers compete to build increasingly lavish and elaborate tombs for their ancestors. And, even sometimes for family members who have not yet died.

The video was filmed on June 2.

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