Tay Nguyen a land waiting to be discovered

(Vietnam Logistics Review) The time from November to March is an ideal time to experience an untamed imposing Tay Nguyen.

When taking about Tay Nguyen, we are likely to talk about an untamed land with tough winding trails. But there are something more to attract tourists who love to discover new things.

With the area of over 50,000 km2 (16% of the country’s area), Tay Nguyen has 5 belonging provinces Dak Nong, Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Kon Tum and Lam Dong. This is an area of unique diversifying tourism resources. In Tay Nguyen, tourists have a chance to experience imposing nature, to discover primeval forests with a diversity of trees and animals. The progress of geological forming gave a diversified terrain of high mountains, highlands, plateaus and valleys. There are 4 main river systems: Upper Xe Xan, Ba Serepok and Dong Nai, forming plenty of lakes and falls among green forests like Trinh Nu Fall (Dak Nong); Thuy Tien, Dray Nur, Dray Sap (Dak Lak); Xung Khoeng, Phu Cuong (Gia Lai); Dambri, Pongour, Prenn (Lam Dong). Typically beautiful lakes are To Nung (Gia Lai), Lak, Ea Nhai, Ea Sup (Dak Lak) and Tuyen Lam (Lam Dong)…

At the end of the year, Tay Nguyen weather turns to be a little cooler and windy- a weather ideals for tourists’travelling. The time from November to March each year is the most beautiful time in Tay Nguyen with sunny, dry weather. At the time, the area seems to dress up with different colors: in November, a time of bright yellow wild sunflowers; in December and January- the time when rubber trees change their leaves: brown yellow, then red and then green; in March, the time of white coffee flowers blooming in cool weather. It is sure that tourists would love it. Tay Nguyen’s basalt soil is suitable for variety of industrial plants and trees as rubber, coffee and tea. So do not forget to try some cups of coffee here. Coffee in different places has different tastes and aromas and you can choose yourself the most suitable one. In Tay Nguyen, people drink coffee from dawn till dusk, as a usual drink.

Tay Nguyen is also a home of 47 ethnic people with various cultural features. Tourists are able to experience “The Space of Gong Culture”, which UNESCO recognized as unique orally- transmitted and non-material works of human in 2005. Rong houses, long stilt houses, grave houses or statues of different sizes and shapes have witnessed the pioneers’ life. And sitting on a canoe floating on the lake as dusk fell, you can have feelings of Dam San when chasing the goddess of the Sun.

Coming to Tay Nguyen, then experiencing the life here, one can enjoy the unique of it: friendly simplehearted people, imposing nature, and peaceful life. A chance of joining a traditional festival of ethnic people’s here can be a unforgettable experience. Tay Nguyen’s community culture is a valueless treasure.

Tay Nguyen tourism has no match to its potentials: most of tourism activities are in existing famous places as Dalat or Dalat; loose connections in tourism, lack of strategies, lack of specific images and products, inadequate tourism infrastructures, long distance between places and inconvenient travelling. Tourists, especially foreign ones, will have difficulties in their journey. However, to those who love strong feelings, will find it a place to come.