Traveling at the beginning of the new year must have become a favorite trend of the travel community and the Central Highlands is one of the destinations with great attraction. This wonderful highland land not only has beautiful scenery but also extremely wonderful culture, people, and food. If you are not sure where to travel in the first days of the New Year, the Central Highlands is the perfect answer for you.
Vietnam has many attractive tourist destinations, but the Central Highlands is always one of the best options for those who prefer to celebrate the New Year in a faraway place. Highlands travel early you will have the opportunity to admire the natural scenery and the sites amazing, along with the discovery of the festival, a traditional culture where there is not unique. Coming to Tay Nguyen at the beginning of the year, you will feel like you are fully immersed to feel the “soul of the earth, the soul of the country” and listen to the echoes of the great thousand hun attracting a wild, beautiful and enchanting color.
The Central Highlands is a great destination for the first trip of the year. Photo:@huongchanel88
Overview of the Central Highlands – the ‘promised land’ of displaced believers
The Central Highlands is an area with the most unique geological and landscape features in Vietnam, whereby this land is not just a single plateau but many successive plateaus at an altitude of 500m to 1500m. with sea level. This area includes provinces in order from top to bottom, including Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Lam Dong.
The topography of the Central Highlands is successive plateaus. Photo: CARDS
The climate in the Central Highlands is quite typical with two main seasons, the rainy season and the dry season, but in each region the weather will be different, creating a diversity of natural landscapes. The Central Highlands is also a place with very diverse indigenous and cultural characteristics when it is the common home of many indigenous ethnic groups and immigrants from other lands, so the culture, The food of this place is also very diverse and has many unique points.
The magnificence of the landscape will make you mesmerized. Photo:@-sunny.99p.
Because it is a land with many interesting things, traveling to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year will definitely be an unforgettable experience for visitors for their “open bowl” trip.
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Traveling to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year to discover attractive destinations
Traveling in the Central Highlands, you will not need to worry about minimizing check-in points to discover because this place has many famous landmarks near and far, even many provinces in the Central Highlands are tourist paradises loved by many tourists.
Ta Dung Lake
Ta Dung Lake is located in the Dak Glong district of Dak Nong province, this place is likened to Ha Long of the Central Highlands with very poetic and majestic scenery. Ta Dung Lake is located in Ta Dung nature reserve, where there are 36 islands, large and small, with a fresh climate, making it an attractive destination for tourists. Traveling to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year, Ta Dung Lake will be a destination that makes you fall in love, in addition, the road to this place with thousands of cafes, fields, hills, and mountains creates a very impressive scene. Ta Dung will be a dream paradise for you to immerse and enjoy.
Ta Dung is Ha Long of the Central Highlands. Photo:@datviettour
Sea Lake
Bien Ho is a very famous tourist destination in Gia Lai, which fascinates visitors with its poetic and gentle beauty. The large lake is like a giant mirror, clear in the shadow of the romantic pine hills. The beauty of Bien Ho has entered into poetry and music because of its peace and beauty. This place is also a virtual living paradise for you to freely create beautiful photos.
The lake is so peaceful. Photo: CARD
Pleiku tea hill
Pleiku tea hill with beautiful scenery has long fascinated tourists, this tea hill is located in the district of Cha Pah, north of Bien Ho. The scenery here is very fresh with thousands of green tea. In addition, the road with beautiful ancient pine trees like Korea or the enchanting Buu Minh pagoda here is also a familiar check-in place for visitors.
Hundreds of years old pine where tea fascinates travelers. Photo: Khin
Trung Nguyen Coffee Village
Whether you travel to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year or at any time, the Trung Nguyen coffee village is certainly a place you can hardly miss. This place is located in the area of Trung Nguyen Coffee Village in Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak province, which is considered the coffee capital of the Central Highlands. Trung Nguyen Coffee Village has a very unique architecture with inspiration from coffee trees, houses, and the culture of indigenous people. Therefore, when you come here, you will be immersed in the atmosphere of the Central Highlands, enjoy virtual life, shop, have fun, and especially enjoy the best cups of coffee.
Trung Nguyen Coffee Village has many HOT virtual living corners. Photo:@-pqnhu
Da Lat
Traveling to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year, the place that many people think of the most is Da Lat , a wonderful dream city with poetic scenery, hundreds of flowers blooming. This place is the tourist capital of Lam Dong province and the Central Highlands thanks to its attractive nature with waterfalls, pine hills, forests, tourist areas, garden houses and unique architectural works. Traveling to Da Lat, you will not worry about the lack of places to eat because this place has so many great things for you to explore.
Da Lat has never ceased to be beautiful in the hearts of travelers. Photo:@-traanxngg
Yok Don National Park
If you love wild nature, during your trip to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year , don’t forget to visit Yok Don National Park, part of the two provinces of Dak Nong and Dak Lak. This is the only place where the forest is still preserved. It has a diverse ecosystem with an area of 115,540 ha, and hundreds of rare and precious species of flora and fauna. Check-in Yok Don National Park, you will be able to explore the wild nature, immerse yourself in the beautiful scenery of the mountains and forests of the Central Highlands, camping, trekking, explore waterfalls… the beginning of the year is also the time when the dipterocarp forest changes. to a brilliant red-gold color like autumn in Europe, so don’t miss the opportunity to admire it.
You will be immersed in the wild nature in Yok Don. Photo:@olivesieunhan
Chu Dang Ya
Chu Dang Ya is located in the area of Ploi Iagri village, Chu Dang Ya commune, Chu Pah district, 30 km from Pleiku center, this is a very attractive tourist destination in Gia Lai. The beginning of the year is also a great time for you to visit Chu Dang Ya because of its poetic beauty, luxuriant trees, and favorable weather. You will feel the majesty and immensity of heaven and earth and admire the stunning beauty of the crater on the plateau.
Chu Dang Ya is wild and wild. Photo:@-tieuquan.d
Black bamboo shoots
Mang Den is a place you must visit during your trip to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year, this place is located in Kon Plong district, Kon Tum province, and is likened to the second Da Lat of the Central Highlands. Mang Den weather is cool all year round with diverse vegetation and natural scenery. You can visit Pa Sy waterfall, chill among pine hills, Statue Garden, or visit ethnic villages to discover fascinating local culture and cuisine.
Mang Den is likened to Da Lat 2 of the Central Highlands. Photo:@nghia.phanminh
In addition to the above places, the Central Highlands also has countless famous landmarks and landscapes for you to conquer such as the Kon Chu Rang conservation area, K50 waterfall, Kon Klor suspension bridge, Indochina junction, Lak lake, temples, etc. Beautiful pagodas, majestic waterfalls…
Enjoying Central Highlands cuisine, a great experience for the first trip of the year
Central Highlands cuisine always makes visitors miss because of its unique flavor mixed with a rustic charm that is hard to find anywhere else. Traveling to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year, you can enjoy many delicious dishes with very own characteristics.
Grilled chicken with lam rice
This is the most famous dish of the Central Highlands and has also begun to appear in many places because of its attractive taste. However, eating grilled chicken with rice, indigenous to the Central Highlands, is still a very special thing. The meaty hill chicken is simply marinated to retain its flavor, upland glutinous rice is put in a bamboo tube to give it a very fragrant and attractive smell.
Grilled chicken with lam rice, the identity of the Central Highlands. Photo:@taonguyen210194
Leaf salad
This is a unique specialty in Kon Tum that when traveling to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year, you definitely should not ignore. This dish includes dozens of types of leaves from familiar to special forest leaves used with shrimp, meat, spring rolls.. and special dipping sauce. The taste of leaf salad is very attractive and has a unique characteristic of the mountains and forests.
The package of forest leaves is a specialty of Kon Tum. Photo:@nabi12.
Cow one sun
This is a long-standing dish of the Central Highlands and has now become a specialty. Beef is marinated in the heart and then dried in the sun to create a very unique flavor, this dish is compared by many people to the taste of the “fire pan” because of the burning highland sun that creates a delicious reputation. Beef on a sunny day with chili salt and lemongrass in the highlands is just right.
One-sunny beef is the quintessence of Central Highlands cuisine. Photo:@mam.nyc
Bun key, red vermicelli
The typical types of vermicelli in the Central Highlands are very rich, notably vermicelli and red vermicelli, which are processed richly with attractive flavors. If vermicelli makes an impression with very large chuds, red vermicelli has a very distinctive color. Traveling to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year, you can also enjoy rotten crab noodles, which is also an attractive specialty of this country.
Bun key is very attractive. Photo:@dailimmy
The vermicelli is unique enough. Photo: PAN.ANIT
Dried Pho
Dry Pho in the Central Highlands is very famous and iconic like Hanoi’s pho, Quang Nam’s noodles, Hoi An’s Cao Lau or Saigon’s noodle soup. This dish has a special feature that when using it, people will have a separate bowl of pho and a bowl of pho mixed with an attractive flavor, that’s also the reason people call this pho two bowls.
Dry Pho in the Central Highlands is famous. Photo:@phokhogialaingonnhatsaigon
Traveling to the Central Highlands at the beginning of the year is always the best experience for those who are passionate about conquering new lands. This place not only has beautiful nature but also has epic treasures, unique cultural festivals that cling to the footsteps of travelers.
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