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Regarding the Central Highlands, we often only remember Da Lat foggy city or Buon Ma Thuot coffee paradise. However, few people know that the mountainous town also has many equally attractive destinations.
This place has a wild, liberal, poetic and romantic beauty that "causes nostalgia" for many travelers from far away. The name Gia Lai comes from the word "Jarai." This is the name of an ethnic group living in this fertile land. Despite the ups and downs of the times, the locals still preserve their traditional beauty and unique cultural identity.
Gia Lai tourism is increasingly becoming an attractive destination for many people to visit and explore nature. Source: Bamboo Airways
Pocket the Gia Lai travel experiences below to have a journey to explore the wonderful scenery of the Central Highlands. Asia King Travel will help you learn more about the land.
This location was formerly a long-standing residential area of ethnic groups such as Jrai, Ba Na, and Cham, who lived in villages. France invaded and gradually established a governing apparatus throughout this land from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
After many changes, mergers, and divisions to establish administrative units in the Central Highlands, on May 24, 1932, according to the Decree of the Governor-General of Indochina, Pleiku Province was established. After 1945, the Vietnamese revolutionary government replaced Pleiku to call it Gia Lai Province.
T'Nung Lake has clear blue water in the middle of wild mountains and forests. Source: Bamboo Airways
In June 1946, France reoccupied the province and called it Pleiku Province again. After 1975, Pleiku was renamed Gia Lai Province and the name Pleiku was given to the provincial city.
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This is a great time to explore the golden rice fields and blooming wild sunflowers. In particular, March is the time when coffee flowers bloom, creating an ideal scene for backpackers. However, April can be hot and sunny for a long time, so be fully prepared to avoid it.
Although the rainy season is unfavorable for exploration due to muddy dirt roads, this is an ideal time for vacations. You can admire the majestic beauty of waterfalls and learn about the Central Highlands culture through models of communal houses and the symbol of the Central Highlands Landscape Monument.
Minh Thanh Pagoda has an architectural style strongly influenced by Japanese combined with Chinese architecture. Source: Bamboo Airways
Gia Lai is a mountainous province, located in the Northern Central Highlands. This is an important bridge in the economic, cultural and social exchange of the Central Highlands with the Northern regions. In addition, it also has a key international position in the t triangle of Vietnam - Cambodia - Laos.
Starting from the center of Ho Chi Minh City, you go towards Hanoi Highway to the overpass at Vung Tau Intersection. From this location, turn right onto Vo Nguyen Giap Street. Continue for another 12 kilometers and turn onto National Highway 1. Then, turn into Dau Giay Intersection, then turn left onto National Highway 20. Go straight and you will reach Lam Dong Province. Then, go ahead and you will reach the destination.
Phu Cuong Waterfall is an attractive Gia Lai tourist destination that helps you take beautiful pictures. Source: MIA.vn
The locals often call this dish "2-bowl pho." Dry pho is prepared a bit differently than other types of pho. If Hanoi pho or Saigon pho usually has pho, beef, and broth in the same bowl, this dish has a more "unique" way of eating: eating with two bowls: one bowl of pho and one bowl of broth.
A bowl of dry pho, in addition to pho noodles, also has bean sprouts, minced lean meat, and crispy fried onions. When eating, add a little red chili to the bowl of pho, a little black sauce, chili sauce, squeeze a lemon slice, add vinegar to the piece until you feel satisfied.
The dish is attractive from the first look. Source: Du lich
The broth is carefully simmered by the cook for many hours, so the broth has the natural sweetness of bones and meat. When you can visit this charming land you should try this dish.
Gia Lai has gifted the people with all kinds of forest leaves that are beneficial to health. The forest leaves here are considered both a green vegetable and a precious medicine passed down for thousands of years. Because of these extremely valuable benefits, the locals have taken advantage of this natural resource to make forest leaf hotpot.
Forest Leaf Hotpot is a popular dish among locals. Source: TimTour
Bamboo Grilled Beef is one of the delicious dishes that you should include in your trip when enjoying Gia Lai cuisine. Each piece of beef is grilled carefully in a bamboo tube, so it still retains its natural sweetness and the strong aroma of mountain and forest spices, making visitors remember this land forever after eating it once.
To create the best flavor for grilled beef in bamboo tubes, most ethnic people in Gia Lai choose young beef with tender meat. Source: Maggi Vietnam
The province has always been one of the provinces that contributes Vietnam's largest amount of Robusta exports. In addition to its flavor, coffee has a distinct exquisite taste that evokes the spirit of the mountain town in which it is consumed.
Gia Lai coffee always brings rich flavor. Source: Dacsanvina
The strong taste is not only from the aroma of coffee but also from the scent of the windy mountains and forests, mixed in every part of the green coffee fields laden with fruit every season.
Gia Lai tourism possesses wild but extremely interesting destinations that help you immerse yourself in the beautiful nature of the Central Highlands mountains and forests. Contact Asia King Travel to have more worthwhile experiences when visiting the beautiful land of Gia Lai!
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