Buon ma Thuot is
surrounded by coffee plantations and is also known as the coffee
capital of Vietnam. We just came in after harvesting so lots of
pieces of road were confiscated for drying coffee beans. We booked
two nights in a resort called the coffee tour, so expected actually
to get a tour. Unfortunately there was no tour.
Instead we grabbed
our map and took Betsy for a spin towards Yok Don National park,
hired a guide and hiked through the forest for an hour or two. The
park is mainly dry deciduous forest and has a lot of wildlife. If you
some spend some more time there you could see monkeys, deers, snakes,
elephants and more. We were really excited to see an elephant in the
park until we noticed it was chained. The elephant was there for
tourists to ride on. Fortunately Yok Don is not really known by
tourists. After our 2 hour hike we stopped at the river and took a
local boat back to the entrance. When the guy arrived with his boat
he had to close some holes with fabric first and empty the boat from
water. We thought that it wont sink if he is still on it and so we
trusted the guy and enjoyed our little boat ride through the jungle.
On the way home Caro did her first longer drive with Betsy and she
did a pretty good job racing through the countryside.
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