Places
Every card answers three questions: why go, what to know, and where to be careful.
Datanla Falls + Alpine Coaster must
7–10 km, 15–20 min · 07:15–17:00
50–80k₫
$1.90–3.10
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The one-kilometre gravity coaster down through the pines is the single most-booked activity in Da Lat, and it deserves it.
Worth knowing. Expect 45-minute queues at weekends. Children ride tandem with an adult.
Pongour Falls pick
45–50 km south, ~1 hour · 07:00–17:00
20–30k₫
$0.75–1.15
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Seven tiers, a hundred metres wide, and by a distance the most photogenic waterfall in the province. Worth the hour each way.
Elephant Falls + Linh An Pagoda
25–30 km southwest, 45 min · 07:00–17:00
20–50k₫
$0.75–1.90
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A loud thirty-metre curtain you can walk behind, with a 24-metre laughing Buddha twenty metres from the gate.
Careful. The rock stairs down to the base are steep, unrailed and genuinely dangerous when wet. In rainy season, look from the top.
Langbiang Mountain
12 km north, 30 min · 07:00–17:00
50k₫
$1.90
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The mountain the city looks at. Radar Peak is a 2.5 km trail, an hour and a half up; the true summit at 2,167 m is a 7 km, 4–5 hour commitment.
Careful. The hiking window officially closes at 13:00 because of afternoon fog. Treat that as the rule for every mountain road here.
Truc Lam Monastery + cable car
5 km, 15–20 min · 05:00–21:00
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A working Zen monastery above Tuyen Lam Lake with the best-kept gardens in Da Lat. The 2.3 km cable car over pine forest takes twelve minutes and lands at the gate.
Worth knowing. Shoulders and knees covered. Historically the cable car pauses over lunch, roughly 11:30–13:30.