Location: Far from 12km south of Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province. 

Characteristics: Ea Kao Lake Tourist Resort is a famous tourist resort of Dak Lak Province. This tourist resort is built with a large and modern scale, but it still preserves traditional identities.  

The tourist resort of Ea Kao Lake covers an area of 120 hectares (not counting the surface of the lake) with various areas, including amusement parks, gardens, restaurants, natural reserve and guesthouses. This tourist resort is surrounded with numerous green trees, which contributes to maintaining and restoring the province ecological environment, as well as to preserving and promoting cultural values of the ethnic groups in the region.

Visitors to Ea Kao Lake will have opportunities to relax and enjoy fresh air, and take part in entertainment, tourist and cultural activities.

With a temperate climate, average temperature of 20.7ºC and annual average rainfall of 2,155 mm, this area boasts favorite conditions for tourism development.  

Location: Cu Dlue Lake - Pine Hill Tourist Resort lies in Khanh Xuan Ward, 6km west of Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province. 

Characteristics: This area has an average height of 400m - 500m above sea level, the highest mountain top is 580m Cu Dlue.

It boasts tropical climate of highland with humidity, conducive to aquaculture and afforestation. Visitors to this tourist resort have opportunities to relax and entertain themselves after hard working days. There are many entertainment activities for tourists, such as fishing, dancing and playing billiard, table tennis. In addition, visitors can enjoy multicolored flowers, including red flamboyant, violet bang lang, and yellow tram. Tourists can stay in hotels, villas and rong traditional houses by the lake to smell perfume of clean lake water.
Come to the Cu Dlue Lake - Pine Hill Tourist Resort to enjoy your holiday in a pure natural environment.  

Travel to Buon Don Village are memorable for an experience of a lifetime – riding on the back on an elephant.

Buon Don village is the only place in the country where it is legal to ride these great beasts in the beautiful Central Highlands. If tourists with Vietnam travel guide  fancy braving it from Saigon you take National Road No. 14 for 500km to Binh Phuoc and Daklak Province. Located about 50 kilometers northwest of Buon Ma Thuot City, is Buon Don which is home to the M’Nong, Ede, Lao and Thai ethnic minority groups and for the last two centuries has been the center of elephant hunting and taming in Vietnam.

Buon Don is the name for the three villages of Yang Lanh, Buon Don and Buon Tri in Krong Ana Commune, Buon Don District in Daklak. The elephant riding festival is annually held at the old airport area in the immense forest and it attracts thousands of tourists from over the country and beyond. The festival is amazing due to its number of fun performances such as elephants playing football and wading down the river.

Walking along the stilt houses under the shade of giant trees, tourists in Vietnam tours will be amazed to see elephants tramping on the street with locals or tourists on their back. Sitting on the elephants’ back and ambling with careful steps, tourists will feel life in the slow lane and more peaceful. You can ride elephants through the forests and rivers to explore splendid and wild scenery after getting some valuable advice from mahouts who take care of these amazing animals.

If you have time and feel adventurous, you can hire an elephant to cross the Serepok River. Then walk across the 100m-long Buon Don Bamboo Bridge under the shade of banyan trees. It is veiled by vines and roots but the swinging bridge is not for the feint-hearted.

To have more fun, tourists in Vietnam tours should buy some sugarcane or some other fruits to lure the elephants.