Dalat When To Go, What To See

The highland town of Dalat charms visitors with its cool climate, pine-covered hills and colorful flowers. Just skim through this article to explore What to see and When to go that suit your Dalat trip plan.

The city of flowers, love and longing, Dalat is a dream destinations for romantics tours. Located at a height of 1,500 m above the sea level on the Lang Biang Plateau, Dalat is endowed with a temperate climate. The city is encircled by ranges of high mountains and lush pine forest. Average temperatures hover around 18oC to 20oC. The lowest temperature recorded here was 5oC and the highest 30oC.

The city is encircled by ranges of high mountains and lush pine forest

What to see and Where to go around Dalat.

Guidebooks often refer to the city as "Little Paris" thanks to its romantic natural scenery and old French colonial architecture. Traveling from D'ran to Dalat at dawn when mist hangs over the pines, visitors feel as if they are lost in fairytale world. As the mist dissolves, trees and grasses shine in the morning sunlight. The Lang Biang Plateau resembles a magical land where clouds, heaven and earth meet.

Dalat's tourist sites are located both in the city center and acattered around its outskirts. Xuan Huong lake is nestled within the heart of the city. Not-to-be-missed tourist destinations in Dalat include the Valley Of Love, the Lang Biang Palateau, the Hill Of Dream, Cambri Falls, Lake Of Laments and the Dalat Flower Villages.

Dalat the City Of Thousands Flowers

Dalat is known for its flowers, which fill the air with fragrance all year around. The annual Dalat Flower Festival is a big event that attracts legions of domestic and foreign visitors. At the peak of the festive season, the city is adorned with carpets of radiant flowers. Xuan Huong Lake, Prenn Falls and Le Dai Hanh Flowers Street are drenched in sculptures made out of flowers. If asking "Dalat when to go?" then the answer is that "It is a joy to visit Dalat during the Annual Flower Festival happening around the end of December and admire the creative flower arrangements".

The Dalat Flower House is packed with blooms: orchids, roses, chrysanthemums and lilies in every shade of red, pink, yellow and orange... Dalat is associated with golden mimosas and orange marigold trees, two flower ambassadors of the city. While the visitors are struck by the artistic creation showcased during the Flower Festival, when marigold trees bloom it is nature's turn to shine. This wild species grows along alleyways and in the mountains. By the end of October, Dalat is invaded by golden blooms. The Marigold trees herald the end of the rainy season. Marigold trees have smaller and thinner petals than sunflowers. But they grow in big cluster, creating golden carpets. They resemble little suns to warm our eyes on chilly winter days, and fill our hearts with nostalgia.

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Destinations for Tourist around Dak Nong

Where to go around Dak Nong for Tourist

Capital: Gia Nghia Town
Ethnic groups: Viet (Kinh), E De, Nung, M'Nong, Tay
Highlights: Dray Sap waterfall, Dieu Thanh water fall, Ba Tang waterfall

Tourist Destinations of Dak Nong

Dray Sap Waterfall
Some 30 kilometers from Buon Ma Thuot City lies Dray Sap Waterfall, which means "the Misty Waterfall". This name is derived from a legend of love story between a boy and a girl who lived in this area. Everyday, H'Mi - name of the girl used to go to the milpa with her lover. One day, while resting on a flat stone, they saw a monster, whose head was as big as a mountain, eyes like bronze urns. Its body was glittery with silvery scales. Suddenly, the monster dived down from the sky and his trunk plunged into the ground, stirring up a colossal column of water. The monster spread out its large wings, flew around several times, making a fierce rain then flied away. In terrible shock, the girl disappeared into the mist. The boy was transformed into a big stump, whose roots stuck into the rock. This place was then called the Dray Sap, or Misty Waterfall.

The rains impetuously rumble down and all of a sudden stop. The sunshine filtered through foliages, making the waterfall look more miraculous. This stream looks like a mixture of water and clouds. Tourists will feel at ease here.

Nature has endowed Dray Sap Waterfall the rugged beauty of mountain and forest. The legend of the love story adds more colours to this waterfall. Save your time to visit Dray Sap Waterfall, to enjoy the pure air at night, to welcome the dawn, to hear the chirping of birds, and to have a sense of how beautiful life is!

Dray Sap Waterfall

Trinh Nu Waterfall - waterfall for tourist around Dak NongBefore discharging into the Serepok River, the Krong No stream snakes its way through rocky stones of many shapes and sizes, creating a magnificent natural landscape called Trinh Nu (Virgin) Waterfall. Legend has it that the name of the waterfall stemmed from a moving love story. A girl at the age of puberty had to commit suicide in the waterfall to ease her heart-rending love story, hence the name Trinh Nu Waterfall, one of the most famous tourist attractions in the Central Highlands.
Trinh Nu Waterfall is situated 1km from the town center of Cu Jut District. On the way to the waterfall, one seems to blend with nature. From a distance, the sound of the waterfall can be heard. Amidst the imposing natural landscape, tourists feel free from all the trouble of life.
Coming here, tourists have a chance to enjoy the natural beauties as well as the excellent services.

Dieu Thanh Waterfall
For a long time, Dieu Thanh Waterfall has won kudos for its pristine and poetic beauty. Dieu Thanh Waterfall is located on Dak Tit Stream, the natural border between Nhan Co Commune (Dak R'Lap District) and Quang Tan Commune (Tuy Due District). This waterfall has been stood in the middle of mountain and forest since time immemorial, despite various changes of the surrounding scene and natural environment.

Besides the biggest water column, which comes down from the height of 30m, Dieu Thanh Waterfall also comprises of some small other water columns, creating a thin mist that cools down the temperature at the foot of the rocky mountain. Under the waterfall, there are several deep grottoes and inside them there have many large and smooth rocks for tourists to take a short rest. The temperature here is always cool. When standing on the summit of the waterfall, you can admire a part of the magnificent mountain and forest of the Central Highlands.

Though Dieu Thanh is located in a calm place of jungle but it is still one of the interesting beautiful spots which not only attracts visitors in Dak Nong Province but also in other provinces such as: Dak Lak, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Ho Chi Minh City and so on. Especially on festivals or Tet holidays, a lot of people flock to this place.
 

Ba Tang Waterfall - As a tourist destination of Dak Nong
It is a beautiful spot, 8km from Gia Nghia Town. To reach this waterfall, go along National Highway No14 in the contrary direction to Buon Ma Thuot. The waterfall cascades down over three levels before reaching the stream below, hence its name Ba Tang (three-storey cascade). The waterfall is about 40 m high. The first layer is not too high, water falls down from the height of 1.5m to the bottom. The second one is about 20m from the first one. In this layer, the clear blue stream flows through rocks and from a height of 2m, the water overflows downward, creating white spume. The third layer, about 20m from the second, the biggest and the main one of this waterfall, is 20m high, overflowing in two sides of the stream.
The spring is quite wide; its two banks are covered by shady trees where tourists may take a rest and enjoy the natural beauty. Looking upward, it seems to us that there is a misty veil created by the powerful flow of the falling water in an ever roaring sound.

The waterfall is surrounded by old trees. There is a large, flat ground for visitors camping, and relaxing. Together with Dieu Thanh Waterfall, Ba Tang Waterfall creates a place "S for interesting trekking tours in Dak Nong Province

Gia Long Waterfall
Gia Long Waterfall is located in Dak Sor Commune, Krong No District. Gia Long is the upper waterfall in the system of Gia Long, Dray Nur and Dray Sap waterfalls of Serepok River.
Formerly, Emperor Gia Long had a nice road built to reach this waterfall. He also intended to build a suspension bridge across the waterfall. However, the bridge was never completed and no one knows why only two bridge's piers were dug, which still remain now.
The beautiful landscape of waterfall and clear and pure lake makes the site attractive to natural lovers. 

Some Tourist on Gia Long Waterfall

Pu Prang M'Nong Village tourist destination of Dak Nong
From Gia Nghia Town, following Highway 14 towards Buon Ma Thuot City for about 28km then turn left for 2.5 km, tourists will arrive at the Pu Prang Village (Dak Rung Commune, Dak'Song District) where still preserves many unique M'Nong cultural features, works of folk literature such as: the anthem, the epic...

Pu Prang Village preserves more than 200 epics of M'Nong ethnic group (also called Ot-Nrong). The epic collection has great human values (genealogy epic set). In the village, family of Dieu Kau artist has been studying, collecting, compiling and storing hundreds of Ot-Nrong of this region. The way to show the Ot-Nrong songs is to sing (sing at mountain field, nearby the cooking fire, in the festivals...). Ot-Nrong singing expresses high solidarity in family and community, associates with the education of community tradition and is indispensable to M'Nong people after hard working days.

Coming to Pu Prang Village, visitors will have opportunity to visit the graves of M'Nong peo-pie. These are traditional relics showing decorative art; symbols and patterns elaborately carved on wood reflect the beliefs of M'Nong ethnic group. Visitors will be able to join many festivals of the ethnic minorities here if visiting the village in March.

Destinations for Tourist around Dak Nong