Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam Travel Blogs

Buon Ma Thuot
Jul 10, 2008 (37 photos)

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Buon Ma Thout to Lak Lake
Mar 15, 2009 (4 photos)

... Vietnam. The highlands of Vietnam are not as high as you might expect and plateau after a while so it feels flat again. Buon Ma Thout was a surprisingly large and cosmopolitan town, we just stayed one night and found a roll your own rice paper rolls ...

Buon Ma Thuot
Feb 6, 2009 (12 photos)

... same neighbours and feel comfortable in their surroundings or want to show off to their friends who are still poor? Buon Ma Thuot is the coffee capital of Vietnam and there is alot of money to be made in it according to the beautiful houses i saw so my ...

Village life
May 22, 2009

... I don't understand big numbers but I realised that they meant something in relation to each other.  Therefore, when I realised that Buon Ma Thout, the next town along the road was 10 times the size of Dalat, I started looking for an alternative. I ...

Party Bus
Nov 17, 2008 (7 photos)

... bus, as no one in Pleiku spoke English & told me the conductor would make sure I got the right connection at Buon Ma Thuot. Soon after leaving, we picked up some more passengers, then some more & so on. We hurtled along at 100mph, overtaking ...

Easy riding day 2
Oct 25, 2005 (13 photos)

... the lakeside. I was actually smiling when I finished but was glad it was over. Lots more followed: a brick factory, Buon Ma Thuot market, amazing waterfalls in the middle of the rainforest and an example of what culinary delights the jungle has on ...

Buon Ma Thuot
Mar 10, 2009 (54 photos)

... and stalls were selling the usual souvenirs. We wandered back to Lak, had a drink with some locals and caught the bus back to Buon Ma Thuot. Had a relaxing evening, early start in the morning... 12/03/2009 Up early to catch 8 o'clock bus to Kon Tum.

Waterfalls, Wild Elephants, and Weally Big Snakes
Dec 13, 2007 (10 photos)

... wraps at one restaurant so much that we ate there every night! One thing we shouldn't forget to mention is, Buon Ma Thuot is the coffee capital of Vietnam - can you see why Malx would want to go??? Although, they mostly seem to serve it super sweet and ...

De Lak a Buon Ma Thuot, HPC, 15 Decembre 2007
Dec 15, 2007

... mangent du chat au Vietnam ? Je dirais surement, mais pas encore vu ! Ce soir, on passe la nuit a une trentaine de km de Buon Ma Thot (repute pour son cafe, on en trouve en France : il s'agit de la marque Trung Nguyen, il est excellent) : Virgin Fall ...

Motorcycle Diaries - Day 3
Apr 17, 2007 (11 photos)

Day 3 - Buon Ma Thuot to Kon Tum This was a really long day! We rolled out of town bright and early with a quick stop for some Vietnamese rocket fuel at a gas station.  Served in tiny plastic bags with straws a concoction of strong coffee and ...

Elephant Riding at Lake Lak
Feb 18, 2008 (9 photos)

So we flew out of Ho Chi Minh City and headed to Buon Ma Thuot to catch a bus and visit Jun Village where we planned to ride an elephant and rub elbows with some of the M'nong (minority people). It was an early start to the day, as usual, catching the 6:30 ...

BMT
Jan 27, 2009 (14 photos)

Short entry as Buon Ma Thuot, the highland town I was visiting, was closed!   Yes, literally, the entire town was closed when I arrived.   There were no buses elsewhere, no convenience stores open, and no restaurants either!   ...

Easy Riders 1
Mar 2, 2009 (28 photos)

... friends" and go to bed with already so much to digest and think about.   DAY 2   Driving in Vietnam involves mastering the intricate system of beeps which slowly become decipherable to the untrained (western) ear. There's the ubiqutous " ...

Highlands
Oct 5, 2008 (11 photos)

Photos from day 3

Northwards on the plateau
Apr 21, 2009

Not much to recommend this small city at about 750 meters. Hot. Rainy.

Waterfalls, forests, villages and skiny dipping
Jul 23, 2009 (10 photos)

... there wasnt a sinner for miles.  It was probably the best day we had on the bikes and it ended in Buon Ma Trout, the capital of the Vietnam central highlands.  It was a great experience and we were so glad we got pulled into doing it.  ...

Cool days riding around on a motorbike
Jul 22, 2009 (6 photos)

This morning the lads strapped our backpacks to the bike and  we set off to the hills of Vietnam.  It was awesome. We stopped of at mushroom farms, local villages, ate local food.. It was such a cool day.  It started to rain for about 10mins ...

Smooth as Silk - Journey to the Highlands
Apr 28, 2008

... walk right up to the edge by the falls and scare yourself a bit if you like.   After the falls we drove into Buan Ma Thuot and had what Peter says is the best pho in Vietnam.  It was pretty damn good but I've had better, interestingly ...

Easy Riders
Jul 25, 2008 (23 photos)

so we started out from Na Trang and on the back of small motorcycles we travel all day and see some amazing things,  lobster farm, fishing town, brick factory, shrimp farm, incense making (from scented wood),  horrific traffic accident, coffee ...

Da lat - Nha Trang.
Oct 21, 2009 (4 photos)

... hal, och sen bearbeta sig ner i stenen, sjukt jobbigt, langsamt och farligt. Fick aven ett par historia lektioner om Vietnam. Som jag inte orkar skriva ner nu. Kanske senare. Nagra stopp pa resan till Nah Trang: Tegelstensfabrik. Mobeltillverkning av ...

Seeing the 'real Vietnam'
Feb 23, 2009 (7 photos)

... local place. Really dirty but we didn't care as the food tasted really good. When you go into the really cheap local Vietnam eateries they give you a glass of chilled green tea which sounds disgusting but we are both getting to quite like it. During the ...

From Kon Tum to Buon Thaot
Dec 21, 2008

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Going to back to the highlands
Jul 13, 2009 (10 photos)

... .  It's was a 4.5 hour ride back through the hills of the highlands.  This time heading north to Buon Ma Thuot, the coffee capital of Vietnam.  Well Buon Ma Thout is a nice place especially if you speak Vietnamese, so back to the days of ...

Easy Riders
Sep 17, 2008 (24 photos)

Die zweitaegige Toefftour mit Xuan war zwar sauteuer. Gelohnt hat sie sich aber alleweil. Xuan ist einer von hunderten Easy Ridern, die dich auf dem Ruecksitz durch Vietnams Hochland tuckern. Nebst dem ganzen Reisanbauprozess konnte ich da auch einen ...

Yok Don National Park
Jul 14, 2009 (8 photos)

Another day driving myself around only because it was 1/3 of the price. The aim was to go to the Lak Lake and Yok Don national park.  However I found out that the Lak Lake was 50km north and the Yok Don national park was 42km west so it's not ...