Adventure the central highlands

Brief history

Called Tay Nguyen in Vietnamese, Les Hauts Plateaux du Sud by French. This  name has been known since 1960 because of  the clause about the autonomous area of  the ethnic minorities ( consist Tay Nguyen) in The Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This region consists of 5 province: Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Lam Dong. The central highlands cover the southern part of the Truong Son mountain Range.

Population: 2600 million people

Total area is 44 000 square kilometer

Tay Nguyen is autonomous area where the ethnic minority live. Because of being an incomplete nation, large land, thinly populated, The Champa kingdom had made highlanders target of their attacks to make a slave out of them.

After that Nguyen Hoang founded his land in South and excluded the influence of the Champa kingdom, Tay Nguyen came back under Viet’s protective regime. However, the Vietnamese kings had not a close surveillance here.

Under French domination, French realized a series of discoveries in this area. In 1888, a kingdom was built here by a French – M. Mayrena. In 1891, doctor Alexandre Yersin found out Liang Biang highlands. He proposed the colonial government to construct here a vacation- city. Since that, French have attention of explore the Central highlands’s economy.

In 1900, French chose Da Lat for their vacation – city. They constructed the administrative centre, plantations….

With the influence of Northeast and Southeast, so the climate is temperate, it is tropical, humid and monsoon. There are 2 separated seasons: rainy season (May to October) and drying season (November to April) . With the increase in altitude, the temperature in the highlands is cool, ranging between 18ْ C and 25ْC.

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