Buon Ma Thuot or Ban Me Thuat is located deep in the Central Highlands, about 360 km from Sai Gon. is the capital city of Dak Lak Province, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Its population is approximately 300,000. The city is the largest in Vietnam's Central Highlands region and is famous as the regional "capital of coffee" Buon Ma Thuot by far is relatively off the beaten track. But the area is certainly worth the trip.

Buon Ma Thuot offers the travelers the fresh nature beauty characterized by temperate climate, waterfalls, rivers, lakes and national parks. Buon Ma Thuot is home the a number of ethnic minorities of which the century-old traditions are well kept. Traveling in this area the visitor should not miss a memorable night sharing the traditional dance with a local ethnic group by the fire.

You can have a trekking trip through the ethnic villages which are surrounded by peaceful and fresh nature. You can also visit Ban Don Village where wild elephants are still being domesticated and enjoy an adventure with an elephant ride through the green forest.
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Jun Village: By the side of Lak lake is the sizeable the M'nong Rlam village of Jun with over 30 long houses. Different from the M'nong Gar who live in on-ground houses, the M'nong Rlam live in longhouses which are built on stilts like the Edeh. Their method of building long houses has remained simple and consists mainly of binding bamboo and thatch for the roof and walls and constructing support pillars and framing with wood using tenon-mortise technique. None of the metal nail is used and the houses are cool and well-ventilated, thanks to the building materials of thatch and bamboo.

Lak Lake: Lak Lake is one of the most famous landscapes in the Central Highlands. The Lake covers more than 500ha at an elevation of 500m above sea level. 

It is on the National Road 27 – about 50km from Buon Ma Thuot. It was this lake that gave its name to DakLak province . "Dak" in  M'nong  language means water, river, stream or lake.  "Lak" is the  name  of  a  young man  with
over whelming courage and strength who found the water resource for the villagers in the area.  So DakLak means LAK LAKE in the M'nong language.

Thuy Tien waterfall: It is about 7km from the heart of Tam Giang hamlet (Krong Nang District) to the North-east, Thuy Tien waterfall, a well-known landscape, possesses a poetic beauty impressing deeply in visitor’s soul. Coming to this place, visitors will enjoy the sound of murmurous spring in wide-majestic forest. From top of the falls, the water is pouring as a force-full picture of the Highland sight.

Krong Kmar waterfall: Going upstream to the Cu Yang Sin range, 3km from the heart of Krong Bong district, you will run into a beautiful landscape of Daklak - Krong Kmar falls. Originating from the highest top of majestic Cu Yang Sin range seems as the roof of the Highlands. Krong Kmar spring is pouring down to the foot of mountain forming Krong Kmar falls with a wild and poetic appearance. If anybody comes once, he would remember it forever

Yok Don national park: For quite along time now, when tourists come to DakLak, they usually go to Buon Don. This is the very land possessing a large area of preserving nature environment, including Yok Don National Park: This is the biggest National park has an area of 58.200 hectares without mention about 10.000 hectares of surrounding zone.

Yok Don Nation Park gains so many interesting things there, attracting tourists as well as researchers come to study of diversification and unique of natural sources. Those thick and interminable forests on Highland with characteristics of tropical forests in the Southern-east Asia. According to the first investigation that the Park possesses 464 floras of which majority of Michelia. In the dry season, the Sun shines intolerantly but this place is still cool as the land of fog-Da Lat and Orchid are still fine perfume.

Dray Nur waterfall: Located about 25 km from the center of Buonmathuot city on the South, Dray Nur waterfall is the most impressive waterfall in the Central highlands. Dray Nur waterfall is a combination of 2 rivers named Krong Ana (female river) and Krong No (male river), these mix each other creating the legendary Serepok river in the Central highlands. Dray Nur water fall has over 250 meters of length and 30 meters of height, linking two banks of Daklak and DakNong provinces.