Da Lat travel guide & tours

Dalat The South Central Highlands’ top tourist destination owes its fame to French colonists who chose it as a place to escape the busy Ho Chi Minh City. It is much cooler and ideal for weekend getaways.

Bearing visual markers of its colonial past, Dalat is blessed with picturesque architecture with distinctly French influences and to a degree more noticeable perhaps than in other Vietnamese towns and cities that experienced French occupancy. Natural beauty including the mountains and pine-covered hills in its surrounds, add further to the town’s aesthetic qualities.

With the climate somewhat cooler here than in lower areas of the country, Dalat is home to a thriving agricultural industry that produces a variety of vegetables, fruit and flowers, many of which cannot be grown in lower parts of Vietnam. Indeed, such is the reputation of Dalat’s fresh produce, that markets the length of the country sell its fruit and vegetables at a premium.

The town has, for some time, realized its potential as a tourist destination and hence its infrastructure is well adapted to the needs of its visiting population, with plenty of hotels and restaurants on hand; as well as travel agencies offering excursions to popular local sights. For Vietnamese visitors, it is the ideal spot for a weekend getaway, while for westerners; it makes for a relaxing stop along the lengthy tour between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

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