These days, especially on weekends and recent New Year's Day, even though it is raining in KonPlong district, it still attracts thousands of tourists inside and outside the province to come to the Mang Den plateau to enjoy Admire the brilliant beauty of cherry blossoms blooming all over the hillsides.
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| Cherry blossoms bloom in the DakKe lake area |
According to the announcement of the People's Committee of KonPlong district, this year's "Mangden cherry blossom season" festival takes place for 22 days, from December 27 to January 17.
Ms. Tran Lan Phuong, a resident of Mang Den town, said that this year the weather is both cold and sunny, so the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, blooming early and evenly, but like every year at this time the flowers are just blooming. bloom sporadically. This year is the year the cherry blossoms bloom the most, most evenly and most beautifully ever.
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| Tourists take advantage of the opportunity to save beautiful moments with cherry blossoms |
“We knew about Mang Den thanks to a friend's Facebook in KonTum. Mang Den has very beautiful pine forests and waterfalls, especially at this time, cherry blossoms are blooming, so my husband and I decided to take advantage of 2 weekends to fly from Ho Chi Minh City to come here. enjoy with your own eyes. Mang Den has the same beauty as Da Lat, but the difference is that Mang Den still retains its wild beauty - a gift of nature" - Mr. Hai, Ms. Tran, a tourist from Ho Chi Minh City shared.
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| Cherry blossoms reflect on the picturesque Dak Ke lake |
According to preliminary statistics of the People's Committee of Kon Plong district, there are currently over 20,000 cherry blossom trees in the district, most concentratedly planted in the Mang Den town area.
Mr. Pham Van Thang - Vice Chairman of KonPlong District People's Committee said that to welcome tourists to Mang Den during the upcoming Cherry Blossom Festival, New Year and Lunar New Year, the district has developed a plan to repair the facility. infrastructure at tourist destinations; At the same time, we support cherry blossom varieties for people to plant along the town's roads.
“To attract tourists to KonPlong during the Lunar New Year days, the district has worked with restaurants and hotels in the area to request not to raise prices and to ensure food hygiene and safety. In addition, to have more entertainment spots for tourists and local people, the district has worked with a number of businesses to put into operation 4 new tourist attractions and deploy horse-drawn carriage services at tourist destinations. .” – Vice Chairman Pham Van Thang added.
Coming to Mang Den National Ecotourism Area, KonPlong district, on this occasion, in addition to admiring cherry blossoms, visitors can also immerse themselves in experiencing gong culture, sinus dance and culinary culture with delicious dishes. Typical dishes of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands such as bamboo-tube rice, grilled chicken, wine, wild banana flower salad...
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| Cherry blossoms bloom in the PaSy waterfall area |
On February 5, 2013, the Prime Minister issued Decision 298/QD - TTg approving the Planning for building the Mang Den eco-tourism area and the general urban planning of Kon Plong district until 2030 with an area of over 138,000 hectares, with the nature of an ecological conservation area and national forest; is a tourist area in the Master Plan for Vietnam's tourism development to 2020, with a vision to 2030.
Mang Den is the starting point of the tourist route "Central Highlands Green Road", connected with the tourist route "Central Heritage Road" and "Legendary Ho Chi Minh Road" to form a transnational travel route. family. In particular, from Mang Den, the "Central Highlands Green Road" will pass BoY International Border Gate to form the "Indochina Heritage Road" tourist route, connecting Vietnam's world heritage sites with the world heritage sites of the two countries. neighboring countries Laos and Cambodia.
Located at an average altitude of 1,000 - 1,500m above sea level, Mang Den has a temperate climate, cool all year round; The average annual temperature ranges from 16 - 200C, surrounded by primeval forests, with many scenic spots, forest coverage of more than 80% of the natural area; There are many lakes, waterfalls and rocky streams suitable for the development of eco-tourism and relaxation associated with scientific research; unique indigenous culture; Many rare fauna and flora live... This is favorable potential for Mang Den to become a national eco-tourism and resort center.
In addition to the potential for tourism development, the district also has much potential for agricultural development, especially high-tech agriculture.
The Provincial People's Committee has approved the planning to develop vegetables, flowers, fruits and other crops associated with eco-tourism in KonPlong district with an area of 1,392 hectares and continue to expand the planning to over 10,000 hectares. In particular, the Provincial People's Committee has also developed a project to develop high-tech agriculture associated with processing in the province, in which the main key area is KonPlong district.
To date, KonPlong district has attracted over 90 projects, including large projects such as: Forest management and protection projects, tourism business and breeding, planting and developing medicinal plants combined with animal husbandry. High-tech dairy goat farming of Mang Den Food and Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company with a scale of 1,350 hectares, total investment of the project is 5,100 billion VND; High-tech agricultural project of Dong Phuong Co., Ltd. in joint venture with Japan.
In particular, in the coming time, VinEco Company, a member of VinGroup, will invest in a high-tech agricultural project with a project scale of 1,000 hectares, total investment of 1,000 billion VND; Investment project on forest management, protection and development, combined with the protection and development of medicinal plants (NgocLinh Ginseng) under the forest canopy in TuMoRong district of Sam NgocLinh KonTum Joint Stock Company with a total investment of nearly 5,000 billion copper…
Along with thousands of cherry blossom trees planted in tourist areas, main streets and the center of Mang Den town, primeval forests, romantic pine hills, livestock farms, and vegetable farms , flowers and fruits from cold countries have been creating unique characteristics for those who have never been to KonPlong to find and to hold the feet of those who "fall in love" with KonPlong to come back...