Tour 7a : Hotel – BMT city tour – York Don national park – Buon Don tourist center – Draysap, Draynur, Trinh Nu waterfalls –Jun village &Lak lake – Krong Kma waterfall. ( 4 days , 3 nights )

 *Day 1: We greet you at either the Buon Ma Thuot airport or bus station to your hotel.
 
    *Day 2: Pick up in the morning at 8 a m and go to visit  Akothon (Ako Dhong) village (the village of Ede minority people), ethnological museum of Dak Lak - Trung Nguyen coffee village -  coffee restaurant of MeHyCo to try famous coffee of Buon Ma Thuot. If you are interested in special coffee you can try and see them eating the best tripe coffee berries to make speacial coffee called weasel coffee (coffee season in november).
Go to York Don national park , here you will trek in York Don forest or in the sanctuary for 3 hours to discover its diverse fauna and flora system..Have a picnic lunch near by the Serepok  riverside.
Then, leave The park for Buon Don tourist center,  here, is famous for the traditional wild elephants catching and elephant taming  . You can know the way  how to catch and taming wild elephants of M'nong ethnic people .
 
    Walk across the bamboo suspension bridge over Serepok river,  visit an ancient wooden house on stilts with Laotian  architecture.
Turn back to go to Trinh Nu, Draysap waterfalls and spend the night in the Ede’s traditional long house - on - stilts near by the waterfalls . Have dinner with local dishes
 
      *Day 3: After breakfast, check-out and visting the scenery of waterfalls . . we spend here in two hours  walking along the river on a small track through a natural forest, its the left is a river and the right  is  erect cliffs  to get to another waterfall, Draysap, for sightseeing, and swimming, take lots of  picture, scenery here is really picturesque
 
Come back to Buon Ma Thuot center to Lak lake, on our way we stop somewhere to see rubber, coffee, plantations, pepper trees, taking some pictures from a beautiful situation overlooking the rice field valley, ..climb a big rock, grannite stone, local people said :‘any person who reaches the top of the rock will be happy and never getting old’

     We get to Jun village of Lak lake around 4h30 or 5 pm, the sunset landscape is so marvellous, this direction of the west is red horizon and on the opposite direction a lot of white clouds surround the top of mountains.( if it’s not raining) you should take lots of pictures .Have dinner with local dishes and spend the delightful night in long house –on stilts in Jun village near by Lak lak
     
     *Day 4: In the morning, after breakfast, row a piragua on the lake to see natural lotus flowers, it is very nice, peaceful at the dawn and then have elephant riding, it is interesting, elephants paddle across the lake..
It’s breathtakingly, surprised, seeing elephants use their trunks to measure the depth of water how to not get wet to tourists on their backs, they are intelligent..
 
   Take a walk around Jun village to share the simple way of living and the culture of M’nong’s ethnic minority which still exists in Jun village, M’lieng village, a great experience..
Leave Lak lake for Kromg Kma waterfall, staying here two hours, have lunch ..Have a short rest at noon, afterward we  will climb a small mountain – swimming in cool water of Krong Kma waterfall

  Come back to Buon Ma Thuot Airport or somewhere depends on your request

 

 Buon Don beside Serepok river

 

    When speaking of DakLak , we must talk of elephants because DakLak is the native place of elephants. Ban Don is the home of wild elephant catchers and tamers whose fame was once echoed throughout the whole of Southeast Asia.

    Elephants have become a means for the natives to make a living. Traditional elephant races also take place here. Ban Don, also called Buon Don, in Laotian " Island village," is about 45 km North West of Buon Ma Thuot.

    Here the trade of wild elephant catching and taming and has made it completely different from any other village. The Edeh, the M'nong, and the Jarai villages in the past were very prosperous. The chiefs, including Y Thu (Khun Ja Nop) , Y Ky, and others were considered as kings, ruling over large areas of land. Now in Ban Don the customs and the cultural activities are a blend of many regions, countries, and eras.

Coming to Ban Don, you can ride elephants to sightsee the jungles, learn about elephant catching and taming, and various other activities.

 

LAK LAKE
 

     Lac Lake, located 56 km from Buon Ma Thuot, is in the southern part of the province, close to National Highway 26. The great body of water hemmed between low mountains has been home to many kinds of wading birds for a long time.

 

    On the lakeside of Lac Lake is a magnificent palace owned by the last Nguyen King, Bao Dai. Standing on the balcony of the second floor, visitors get a panoramic view of the valley and the lake below. The remains the royal boat which was boarded for short cruises by the owner of the palace, Bao Dai, whenever he stayed in the palace. 

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 with thatch for the roof and walls, constructing support pillars and framing with wood using tenon-mortise technique. No metal nails are used. The houses are cool and well-ventilated, thanks to the building materials of thatch and bamboo. In the M'nong language, Jun means "jutting out." The village is named Jun because it juts out from green LAK LAKE. Coming to LAK LAKE, you may ride elephants around the village, row dugout canoes on the lake or enjoy the Gong show and drinking jar-wine with the villagers. You are welcome to stay overnight in the traditional longhouses at a budget price, allowing you to experience the local lifestyle of the village.

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