Kon Tum
Ya Chim is the collective name for a group of eight Jarai villages that start 17km southwest of Kon Tum. In them you'll find traditional nghia trang (cemeteries) complete with wooden mourning figures. You may see villagers 'feeding' the dead by putting food down bamboo tubes leading into the graves.
There is tension between the villagers here and authorities over ongoing land confiscations for rubber plantations, but overnight stays are possible and Westerners are normally welcomed.
Immaculate Conception Cathedral
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Built entirely from wood, this stunning cathedral from the French era has a dark frontage, gold trim and wide colonnades. Known to the locals as the …
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Built only in 2014, this large and splendid Buddhist temple, surrounded by water features and bonsai trees, sits south of the city centre. Its proudest…
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This museum is one of the region's best, with good lighting and clear English text detailing local religious and spiritual life, including displays on the…
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Nine kilometres southeast of Kon Tum, the village of Kon K'tu is reachable across the Kon K'lor suspension bridge and along a potholed road. There's a…
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Near the suspension bridge across the river you'll find a large rong in the village of Kon K'lor.
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In the eastern suburbs of Kon Tum, this village has a large and appealing rong.
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Pleiku's museum features some vaguely interesting Bahnar artefacts, from fine woven baskets and a coat made from tree bark to a replica tomb house, as…
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This museum is one of the region's best, with good lighting and clear English text detailing local religious and spiritual life, including displays on the…
9.49 MILES
This village is just west of Kon Tum; you can watch local boys swimming with the cattle from the pastureland across the river.
4. Immaculate Conception Cathedral
10.35 MILES
Built entirely from wood, this stunning cathedral from the French era has a dark frontage, gold trim and wide colonnades. Known to the locals as the …
10.36 MILES
This lovely old Catholic seminary was built in 1934. The upstairs normally functions as an absorbing museum of hill-tribe life, but was closed for…
10.55 MILES
In the eastern suburbs of Kon Tum, this village has a large and appealing rong.
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You may see villagers weaving baskets out of bamboo along the streets of Kon Tum Kopong village.
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Near the suspension bridge across the river you'll find a large rong in the village of Kon K'lor.