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BIỂN HỒ LAKE · CHƯ ĐĂNG YA VOLCANO
Pleiku, the mountain town, with the clear blue Biển Hồ lake, century-old tea hills and the Chư Đăng Ya crater, golden with wild sunflowers every November.
ABOUT
Gia Lai is the land of the Jrai and Ba Na peoples. Pleiku is small, quiet and cool all year round, and links Đắk Lắk and Kon Tum on a journey across the Central Highlands.
Biển Hồ (T’Nưng Lake) is an ancient volcanic crater, its water clear and still as a mirror. In autumn, Chư Đăng Ya hill is covered in wild sunflowers.
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Watch the sunrise over “the eyes of Pleiku” and walk down to the lake along a row of pine trees.
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Climb up to the crater; in November there is the Wild Sunflower Festival.
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Tea hills more than 50 years old, with a famous single-file row of pine trees.
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Rông communal houses, carved tomb statues and gong artisans.
BEST TIME TO VISIT
October – December (wild sunflowers bloom from late October to mid-November).
GETTING THERE
Fly to Pleiku Airport (PXU) from Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi. From Buôn Ma Thuột it is about 4 hours by car.
DISHES TO TRY
Gia Lai dry phở, “one-sun” dried beef, yellow ant salt, Biển Hồ tea.
TOURS IN GIA LAI
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