Chu Mom Ray National Parkcovers an area of 48,658 hectares and boasts rich animal life including tigers, elephants, wild boars – even bulls.

Kontum has feature climate of Central Highland. That is tropical monsoon one.

Kontum Church with the architecture style, an interior decoration mixed between the local and western culture, the church attracts many tourists inland and abroad coming to contemplate.

Kontum is a small town with the surrounding area dotted with montagnard villages.

Sea Lake was our next stop where we had a freshly pressed sugar cane drink and bumped into a Dutch couple who were with an Easy Rider.

Kon Tum overview

Kon Tum is situated inland in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia. 

Best time to visit Kon Tum

There are two seasons in Kontum: rainy and dry. And, the best time to visit Kontum is in December because it is the dry season here, but it is not hot in the dry season because this is a mountainous and highland area, and it is also the time for the beautiful flowers, rice fields to appear everywhere along the roads, and many traditional festivals of the many different ethnic groups to be organized here.

Attraction in Kon Tum

1. Kontum Wooden Church: this special church has made by the wooden since 1913 and it is located in the center of the city, you can walk from your hotel which is also located in the center of Kontum, it is very easy for you find this special church because this site is the most famous site in Kontum, its architecture is very special because it is mixed between the traditional architecture of Vietnamese and the architecture of the locals at here.

2. Kon K’lor Communal House: this is the biggest cultural communal house in the highland area of Vietnam. This house is the place to take place the important meetings of the locals and it is also the place where festivals are organized. In these festivals, it is decorated very nicely and carefully.

3. Kon K’lor drawbridge

4. Kontum Park

5. Kontum Prison

6. Ngoc Linh Mountain

Kontum’s food specialties

While visiting this highland city, you should not miss trying the coffee which is one of the most delicious drinks in the highland region, the coffee in this area is quite different from other cities around Vietnam, there are a lot of the locals’ coffee forests in the province.

If you visit this province during the time the locals harvest their coffee forests, then this is a memorable experience because you will have a chance to see the large and endless forests of coffee.

How to travel to Kon Tum?

Kontum is a province in Vietnam’s highlands, about 600 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City. There is no airport in this city, so you must take a short flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Pleiku, then a bus from Pleiku to this city, which takes about 50 kilometers from Pleiku airport to Kontum city.

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