Yok Don National Park
Update: 21/04/2008
Located 40km west of Buon Ma Thuot City, Yok Don National Park lies in three districts of Ea Sup, Buon Don (Dak Lak Province), and Cu Jut (Dak Nong Province).
With the area of 115,545ha of the vast forests, there are a great number of ecological gardens with a lot of valuable kinds of wood such as Baria dalbergia, Poplar, Red wood, etc. According to the exploration of the scientists, there are now 67 animal species, 196 species of bird, 46 reptile ones, 15 amphibian species, and 100 insect ones, many of which are recorded in the World Red Book such elephants, chamois, phoenix... The plant system here is of great variety with 464 species, of which orchid alone consists of 23 kinds with colourful patterns.
Yok Don preserves many outstanding cultural values of Tay Nguyen peoples such as traditional house on stilts architecture with skillful engraving. Visitors can enjoy the space of Gong culture with different kinds of musical instruments such as Chinh K’ram, T’rung…