Mang Den is a small town surrounded by mountains and rich forest flora which has a cool and mild mountainous climate the entire year and is at an altitude of 1,200m above sea level.
Located nearby 60 km northeast of Kon Tum city, Mang Den’s topography is very diverse, including numerous gentle hills, green pine forests, a system of tranquil rivers and streams, variety poetic lakes and stunning waterfalls.
Ideally, all road systems in Mang Den are convenient to commute among all places that we should rent motorbikes going around and immerse the cool atmosphere of mountains
With a cool year-round climate and average temperatures of 16-20 degrees celsius, Mang Den is known as the second Da Lat of the Central Highlands, as it is also a plateau with vast valleys and pine forests.
We arrived Mang Den on beautiful days in July, the highland was filled with steep hillsides and clusters of smoke from the small houses that mixed in with the fog.
The first place we visited was the statue of Virgin Mary that the amazing architecture of Mang Den church, with anecdotes about the epiphany.
Besides, we went to Khanh Lam pagoda with 18 arhats of different shapes which was completely finished building in 2017.
Khanh Lam pagoda
Nearby Khanh Lam pagoda, there is Pa si waterfall which is formed from the two largest streams of Mang Den, we found water that was cool and soft.
Pa Si waterfall
Going to Mang Den, we had a chance to try some traditional cuisines such as grill chicken, mushroom hotpot, bamboo-tube rice
grilled chicken and bamboo-tube rice
Mushroom chicken hotpot
Meanwhile, in the early morning when the day still has not woken, you can easily catch captivating scenes in the town. The vaporous rays of light through each canopy of forest trees, the first rays of sunlight and clouds floating in the air made us strangely captivated. The journey to hunt clouds in Mang Den is not too tough that we spent time trekking Ngoc Le mountain to reach. They float beside and under the mountain tops, too close it felt like we could touch them.
Mang Den is lyrical and dreamy, mysterious and far away from our hectic lives.
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