Discover Vietnam’s Central Highlands

📍 Pleiku Airport to Kon tum city (50km): approx 1 hour

On arrival at Pleiku Airport, welcome by your local guide, for the 1-hour transfer to Kon Tum Town for check in at the hotel. 

 

Then, depart for an exploration of Gia Rai hill tribe villages. The Gia Rai hill tribe group believes in the existence of genies and hold rituals connected to this faith. The group is a matriarchal society, in which the women are free to choose who they marry. The husband lives with the wife’s family and inheritance is passed on to the daughters. Each village has a communal house called a rong, a central stilt house with a tall, steeply pitched thatched roof.  

 

On arrival, walk in the country of the animists to discover their culture, their cemetery decorated with funerary statuettes and the water point next to the rice terraces.

 

At the end of the afternoon return to Kon Tum. Evening at leisure. 

 

Overnight in Kon Tum.

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Departure to the villages of the Sedand ethnic group: Kon Du, Kon Bil in the Konray district (40 km from Kontum). This area boasts beautiful bucolic landscapes scattered with local villages  made of local natural materials.  

 

Return to Kontum for lunch.

 

In the afternoon, visit Kontum Cathedral before crossing the Konklor suspension bridge to reach the village of the Bahnars minority ethnic groups. Here see daily activities and visit the local community house in the villages of Kon K'Tu, Kon Jo Dri.

 

Tonight, spend a fantastic evening with a local hill tribe host family, enjoying traditional gong performances and dances by the Bahnar people.

 

Overnight at a host family in the Kon Ko Tu village.

 

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch, 🍗 Dinner

📍 Kon Tum to Buon Ma Thuot (280km): 5 hours

This morning, depart from Kon Ko Tu Village and Kon Tum Province to Bouna Ma Thout via Pleiku. En-route visit the Bien Ho tea plantation, visit T'nung Lake and Minh Thanh Pagoda.

 

Local lunch before continuing to Buon Ma Thuot passing through beautiful landscapes of arid hills of red earth, coffee trees and small villages of hill tribe groups the Ede and Gia Rai.  

 

Arrival at Buon Ma Thuot - the capital of coffee, then check into the hotel. Not a well known tourist destination, the city offers a pleasant off-the-beaten track vibe.

 

Overnight in Buon Ma Thuot.

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast, 🥘 Lunch

📍 Route can change subject to client interests.

This morning, depart to visit the Draynur waterfall towards the vicinity of Lak Lake - a large natural lake surrounded by beautiful villages of the M'nong ethnic group towards the villages of M'lieng, Jun and Le. Once at the lake, take a canoe excursion on the lake to experience the areas in more depth and appreciate the beauty.  

 

En-route from Lak Lake, stop to visit a pottery workshop and discover the artisanal techniques of the M'nong hill tribe.

 

Following, drive to Buon Ma Thuot airport for a flight to your next destination (depending on your flight details).

 

Inclusions:

☕ Breakfast