Where Should You Visit In Da Lat

Da Lat is a city belonging to Lam Dong Province, located on the Lam Vien highland in Central Highlands, Vietnam. Da Lat is the most famous tourist city in Vietnam where it’s called the dreamy city with hundreds of flowers beautifully blooming. The topography of Da Lat is quite complicated, and it has several odd terrains. Hills and mountains surround the city and create a firm giant wall blocking the winds. The middle of Da La is a basin area with 1.700 meters in width, peacefully located at 1.500 altitude from the sea level.

Da Lat is encircled by the verdure of pine forests. Because of that, Da Lat has a mild mountainous climate and is airy around the year. Da Lat has two seasons. First is the rainy season, from April to October, Da Lat is full of rain with stunning scenery of fresh and colourful flowers everywhere. In this season, the weather is cold and humid and it rains frequently making the atmosphere becomes more romantic and exciting for the tourists. And the other season is the dry season. From November to the next March, Da Lat turns to a dry season with warm sunny days, no sign of rain and little cloud. During the day, the tender sunlight with brisk ambience. At night, the temperature tends to get lower, making the surroundings become chilly – the characteristic of highland areas. Besides that, the weather of Da Lat is well-known for its appealing fog conditions. From February to May and from September to October, it is the time to encounter the fog the most easily. The humid atmosphere and Da Lat are obscured by fog creating a mysterious and romantic feeling for the trip.

After deciding when to visit Da Lat, let’s explore some places you should visit when travelling to Da Lat!

Lam Vien Square

Lam Vien Square is next to the waterside of Xuan Huong Lake and it is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Da Lat. Besides the spacious yard, this place is also prominent for its marvelous architecture like giant Tithonia diversifolia and a colourful glass-made Artichoke flower bud. Lam Vien Square also has many entertainment areas and a shopping centre underground. With a total area of approximately more than 70,000 meters square, it has a capacity of 60,000 people. Because of the enormous space, this is the place for many activities and events in the city. Especially, Festival Da Lat is also held frequently here, attracting many tourists. At the weekend, Lam Vien Square is the place for people coming for entertainment activities and performances.

The giant Artichoke flower bud is a masterpiece with a height of more than 15 meters and with twisted steel frame in the flower bud of the Artichoke. Covered by multiple yellow and green glassed panes, it symbolizes the small flower petals jut out from the centre. Every night, the light from the inside of the Artichoke building is switched on resplendently, embellishing the shimmering of the surroundings. Beside the Artichoke, there is a giant Tithonia diversifolia right next to it. This giant Tithonia diversifolia has a massive bulk with a height of 18 meters and the floor covers an area of 1.200 square meters. Inside the building is a performance stage with the capacity for thousands of people. The petal from the inside is the yellow glasses put according to the metal frame and the other part of the architecture is covered with green glass plates. At night is the best time to observe the beautiful fountain with many melodious pieces of music, making Da Lat becomes an unforgettable destination.

Besides the two mentioned buildings above, Lam Vien Square also integrates many entertaining services like playgrounds, green tree areas and a shopping centre. You can walk around Lam Vien Square and participate in activities like skating or riding electric cars, or you can even organize a picnic with friends and families. During the day, you may find the Square quite peaceful and serene, but when it comes to the evening and night, Lam Vien Square turns into a sparkling picture with colourful lights and many activities for the tourist, you can also enjoy delicious snacks and drinks at the square during the time.

Langbiang Mountain Da Lat

Langbiang Da Lat is one of the most famous places to visit in Da Lat. This place is well-known for its grandiose, poetic and fanciful natural beauty, which attracts many tourists coming to explore the place. It can be said that Langbiang Mountain is not new to locals and travelers around the world. This is the highest mountain in Da Lat with an altitude of 2167 meters. Besides that, this is also the place for cloud-seeing that popular among youngsters. Langbiang is an ecological tourist destination with verdant luxuriant nature around the year with multiple interesting cultures of the ethnicities of the locals. Being the highest mountain in Da Lat, Langbiang is also a place to observe the panorama of dreamy Da Lat city. Not only that but coming to Langbiang, tourists can also experience the fresh air from the Lam Vien highland.

The distance from the gate of the Langbiang tourist area to the summit is about 3 kilometres, so you can choose to ride in a Jeep car to save your time and energy for other activities. Exploring the Langbiang mountain by Jeep car is an interesting experience, you will get to stay in the car and travel through many rugged paths and enjoy the beautiful scenery while coming across the pine forests or the chilly feeling when coming to the stream.

If you are not afraid of heights and love all the extreme sports, paragliding is an ideal option for you. From 2014 when it first served, this activity has always attracted tourists. After finishing your register formality, you will be trained carefully and introduced to basic techniques by the professional coach. Next, you will start from the Radar summit to Dankia Lake, with an interval of about hundreds of meters. From the high position, you can also observe the whole Langbiang from a different viewpoint. Besides that, tourists can take part in many entertainment activities like horse riding and many other activities wait for you to explore.

Datanla Waterfall

If you are passionate about exploring the amazing beauty of Da Lat nature, you should not miss Datanla Waterfall, one of the five most beautiful waters in Lam Dong, which is also a place that attracts many tourists with extreme sports. Being famous for its wild yet dreamy beauty among the Tay Nguyen high mountains and thick forest, Datanla Da Lat is one of the tourist attractions that has the most visited number of people in Lam Dong.

The Datanla Waterfall is located in the middle of Prenn Pass, about 5 kilometres to the South of the centre of Da Lat city. It has a great deal of waterfalls from the dale about 20 meters through many rocks and creating serene water flow. That is why this place is also called the Fairy Stream, on the other side, the cliff of the waterfall deep down the bottom is called the Death Cliff.

If you have a chance to visit Datanla in Da Lat, you should try to experience your flexibility and your courage with many exciting activities. For example, it has terrain vehicles, alpine coasters, a zipline high rope course, or canyoning rafting. If you don’t want to try these activities or your family has babies and elderly, you should use cable car to go sightseeing. The cable car system with a distance of just about 2 kilometres, brings you through the pine hills, the valley at the bottom of Prenn Pass, and houses around the mountain. Another activity you can choose is walking through the jungle. Different from trekking, walking in the Datanla Waterfall tourist area is much easier with the gently slopped stairs, with only about 200 steps which is 1 kilometer long that anyone can do it.

Da Lat Night Market

Da Lat Night Market is one of the places that welcomes thousands of visitors nationally and internationally. This is not just a market to sell clothes, shoes or souvenirs, it is also a food court with many delicious dishes. Being the market located right in the middle of the city centre, the market is at the roundabout of Da Lat market and extends to the whole of Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street. From 5 p.m., when the Da Lat market closes, this is gonna be the time Da Lat night market starts to get ready. The most vibrant time of the night market is usually from 7 p.m. to midnight. At this time, Da Lat night market is full of tourists coming to visit and explore the market. Da Lat night market is open every day, especially on Saturdays and Sundays, it has a walking street here so visitors don’t have to worry about the road and other transportation in this area.

Da Lat Night Market is not just a market for food and entertainment. This place sells many goods like clothes, shoes and sandals, woollen things like clothes or stuffed animals. The most interesting thing in the night market is the second-hand clothes selling here. It is all used clothes but still has the condition as a new product and resell at a cheap price. On the other side, woollen things are the type of product that demonstrates the traditional beauty of people in Da Lat. These hand-made clothes from talented tailors are always suitable for the weather of Da Lat. Besides that, many visitors want to buy the local food. At Da Lat night market, they sell a lot of fruit jam, strawberry jam, mango jam, and many dried fruits, vegetables, soft dried tea leaves and the most famous is the coffee of Central Highlands. Visit Da Lat night market, don’t forget to try the street food in Da Lat. They sell many foods and drinks like soybeans milk, grilled rice paper, fruit-shake and many others.

In addition, Da Lat has many more entertainment playgrounds, cafés, and homestays await the customers. Da Lat is also famous for some other destinations like Crazy House – listed as one of the oddest houses in the world, Van Thanh Flower Village, Domaine de Marie Cathedral, Lumiere Da Lat – Light Garden, Tuyen Lam Lake, Valley of Love and so many other gardens of fruits and flowers. Plan your trip to Da Lat right now to enjoy the colourful flowers and the bustling atmosphere of Da Lat!