Visitors can go for one-day tours to join selected activities held within the framework of the festival, including the opening ceremony, a street festival, the Buon Don Elephant Festival, the Lak District boat racing festival, a coffee fair, and a light festival.
They can also join outdoor activities such as, cycling to Gia Long Waterfall, mountain climbing, trekking, and rafting on Serepok River.
For adventure lovers, they can join a supercar tour across the forest and waterfall at the Dray Nur-Gia Long waterfalls by Serepok River, which flows toward Cambodia before merging with the Mekong River, then flows into the Southwest region of Vietnam, and finally joins the sea.
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A traditional long house in Ako Dhong village. (Photo: Vietnam Pictorial) |
With a duration of 4 days and 3 nights, participants in the ‘Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival’ tour will be invited to visit the Ko Tam Community-based Ecological Tourism Area, where they can learn about the indigenous culture of Central Highlanders, participate in the coffee trade fair and the street festival, and take tours to the World Coffee Museum and Ako Dhong Village, where houses are built in the traditional architectural style of Ede ethnic people.
The tour will also take travellers to Lak Resort, one of Dak Lak's most beautiful tourist attractions; Voi Me (Mother Elephant) rock in Yang Tao Commune, Lak District, which is the largest monolith in Vietnam; the villages of Le and Jun in Lak District, to discover the cultural life and customs of the M'Nong people; and Bao Dai House, where they can admire the scenery of Lak Lake from 700m above sea level.
On the next day, the visitors will attend the traditional wharf worshiping ritual and the ceremony to pray for good health for elephants, admire houses built in the traditional architectural style of Lao ethnic group, and visit tombs of M’nong ethnic people in Krong Na Commune, Buon Don District.
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At the ceremony to pray for good health for elephants (Photo: Vietnam Pictorial) |
There are also tours to Don Village, which are designed to help visitors learn more about elephants and the hunting and raising of elephants by the Central Highlanders.
Tourists will have an opportunity to participate in a wharf worshiping ritual, the ceremony to pray for good health for elephants, bathing elephants, and a buffet party for elephants, while learning about the practice of elephant hunting and breeding and listening to the stories about Ama Kong, the legendary elephant hunter of the village.
According to Director of the Dak Lak Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thai Hong Ha, the department has set up teams to inspect the operation of local tourism businesses, and launch a hotline to receive complaints and feedbacks from tourists in order to timely address rising problems related to tourism services and products in the locality.
Marking its 8th event, Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival 2023 will take place from March 10-14 under the theme ‘Buon Ma Thuot - The destination of world coffee’.
The biennial festival aims to honour coffee growers, processors, and traders, while promoting the brand of Buon Ma Thuot coffee and introducing the locality’s potential to attract more investment in coffee processing and agricultural products throughout Dak Lak Province.
It also provides an opportunity to advertise Dak Lak as a safe and friendly destination imbued with identities of the Central Highlands region.
This year’s festival is expected to welcome around 40,000 to 50,000 visitors from both at home and abroad.
