Buon Ma Thuot

Buôn_Ma_Thuột_city_square - City center

Buon Ma Thuot or Buôn Ma Thuột (or sometimes Buôn Ma Thuật, Buôn Ma Thuật or Ban Mê Thuột), is the national capital of Daklak Province, in the Central Highlands (Vietnam) | Central Highlands of Vietnam.

Buon Ma Thuot Halal Travel Guide

Despite its quiet appearance, Buon Ma Thuot is very quickly developing. However, most of this development is from internal investment rather than the tourism industry. There are very few tourist sites, but the people are friendly and the Coffee is great and a stop here is well worth it to get off the beaten track and see Vietnamese city life that does not revolve around tourism. It is also an excellent base of operations to visit Yok Don National Park, Ban Don Village and Lak Lake.

How to travel to Buon Ma Thuot

By road

Buon Ma Thuot is 194 kilometers from Nha Trang, 197 kilometers from Pleiku, 223 kilometers from Qui Nhon, 350 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, 396 kilometers from Dalat and 1427 kilometers from Hanoi.

Fly to Buon Ma Thuot

There are connections with Danang and Hanoi (via Danang) three times a week, daily Flights to Ho Chi Minh City.

• Buon Ma Thuot Airport 12.6648, 108.1176 10 kilometers from city by taxi ☎ +84 262 3862 248 - Buon Ma Thuot Airport

Travel on a Bus in Buon Ma Thuot

There is a bus service to Buon Ma Thuot from Danang and Ho Chi Minh City (departs from Mien Dong Bus Station in Ho Chi Minh City). Buon Ma Thuot Bus Station is 3km east of the center. Several buses travel daily to Pleiku and Danang (buses will stop in Pleiku), Qui Nhon (11 hours), Nha Trang (6 hours) and Ho Chi Minh City (18 hours).

Mai Linh Express now operate their hunter green Mercedes Sprinters from Buon Ma Thuot, which cut down travel durations considerably, even with short breaks at mealtimes. For example and the journey to Nha Trang is 90,000 dong four times daily and takes roughly 3½ hours.

• Dak Lak central bus station 71 Nguyễn Chí Thanh 12.70044, 108.07429 ☎ +84 262 3951 704
• Southern bus station Võ Văn Kiệt, Ea Tam 12.6464, 108.017 ☎ +84 262 3989 898

Get Around

GPS 12.60|108.02 Your usual selection of taxis operate here, including Mai Linh. The city is also eminently bikeable due to its compact size and flat terrain.
Mai Linh taxi phone number in Buon Ma Thuot is +84 500 381 9819, or 0500 381 9819 when using local mobile phone. Most drivers don't speak english, so prepare written notes or show them map on your smartphone screen.

What to See

Khai_doan_pagoda - Khai doan pagoda

• Khai doan pagoda
• Ako Dhong (buôn Cô Thôn in Vietnamese): A E-de minority community on the northern end of BMT. It's reachable on foot, but ask how to get there first. It's a nice part of town with longhouses surrounded by flowery yards, although now being part of town it can't really be called a village any more. Maybe 'longhouse suburbia' is more appropriate.

• Lak Lake 12.4165, 108.176 771975 - the mother lake of the Central Highlands.

• Dray Nur waterfall 12.5406, 107.8906 30 kilometers by taxi from Buon Ma Thuot 825682 - Impressive waterfalls and recreation area, especially recommended in wet season.

• Đray Sáp waterfall 12.5380, 107.8883 30 kilometers by taxi from Buon Ma Thuot - 30 000 VND 825683 - Another waterfall, located around 300 meters from Đray Nur. Looks less impressive in dry season, but still interesting area to explore.

• Lady Jiangshan 12.5072574, 108.1921383 - Breathtaking views from the hill top and halfway to the top. Well worth a visit on the way to Lak Lake.

Top Muslim Travel Tips for Buon Ma Thuot

• Visit Ban Don village, ride elephants. From center of Buon Ma Thuot, you can catch a bus every 30 minutes to go to Buon Don (Ban Don). Note that you should wait for the bus at Coop Mart in order to have a seat. Otherwise and the bus is normally full.

Shopping in Buon Ma Thuot

• Phượng shop 45 Ngô Quyền 12.68832, 108.05266 ☎ +84 500 3852 981 - Wood sculptures and bamboo souvenirs, cocoa powder, Coffee - ground and in beans, assorted nuts and local spices. Tour to Coffee roasting factory can be arranged.

• Vincom Plaza 78 Lý Thường Kiệt 12.68220, 108.04404 - Big shopping center with clothing stores, movie theater, fast food, supermarket and Baskin Robbins ice cream cafe. No local souvenirs there.

• CoopMart 71 Nguyễn Tất Thành, Tân An 12.69197, 108.06204 ☎ +84 262 3957 988 Opening Hours: 08:00-22:00 Supermarket and shopping center, check second floor if you are looking for non-food items. KFC restaurant is located on the first floor.

Halal Restaurants & Food in Buon Ma Thuot

Despite what the guidebooks say, Buon Ma Thuot has a very solid selection of good eats. Fast development and not much tourist infrastructure mean that the guidebooks are behind the times and sorely misleading. A wander just northwest of the main roundabout after around 6PM will turn up a truly great selection of street stalls and small restaurants, offering up very tasty standards such as hủ tiếu, phở, bún, cơm and nem. Check Ly Thuong Kiet nearby for a selection of roll-your-own spring roll joints.

A very tasty cơm hến and the Hue speciality, is available at a simple-looking place across the street from the Co-op Mart that also advertises Bún bò Huế. Walk past the shabby looking front room into a spectacular little back home, complete with garden, birds and an internal waterfall.

Of course, KFC is available in the Co-op Mart building, if you really need it.

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee. Buon Ma Thuot is the capital of Coffee in Vietnam, a country that is second only to Brazil in Coffee exports. Because of this, cafes are on every street corner and most are spectacular. Many offer several different varieties of bean and roast. Standouts include Emerald's Cafe in Tan Loi and, just east of town, Trung Nguyen's flagship Coffee gardens (a huge pleasure garden complete with man-made mountains and waterfall, lined with Coffee trees and boasting both traditional Viet and Ede designed buildings). However, it's difficult to find a bad cup of Coffee.

• Drink the local brew "ruou can".

• Trung Nguyên flagship restaurant 149-153 Lý Thái Tổ 12.70136, 108.06096 ☎ +84 262 3958 868 Opening Hours: 06:30-22:00 787424 - Coffee, drinks and food available, nice gardens with a lot of Coffee trees, artificial cave and pond. Coffee can be also be bought here, beans or ground.

• Mehyco cafe 159/3, Nguyễn Văn Cừ 12.69170, 108.07088 ☎ +84 262 3865 221 - Another cafe with a nice garden, belonging to a Coffee manufacturing company.

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Muslim Friendly Hotels in Buon Ma Thuot

• Ngoc Mai Guesthouse B14 Dien Bien Phu In the town center ☎ +84 500 3853 406 US$9 Great guesthouse/small hotel at the heart of the city. 200 m from the night market, plenty of restaurants around. Rooms with air-con, TV. Friendly staff speaking English and French. Indoor parking for motorbikes

• Thanh Ngoc | 117 Nguyen Van Cu close to kilometers 3 ☎ +84 913436427 US$8 Great little hotel, for 150 000 dong, inclusive air-con, TV and incredible friendly and helpful owners. Indoor parking for motorbikes, too.

• Huong Khue | 32 Ngo Gia Tuesday right next to the bus station ☎ +84 913498346 - Simple but clean and conveniently located next to the bus station along with several other hotels on the same road. Rooms from 120,000 dong. Staff is helpful and friendly but knowledge of English is limited. You can take local buses to the center or walk for about 20 minutes.

More Muslim friendly Destinations from Buon Ma Thuot

• Lak Lake is about an hour's bus ride to the south, on the way to Dalat. It's a beautiful lake with various minority villages all around. A few of them are reachable from Lak town on foot, others require a boat trip, motorbike, or longer hike. To cross the lake, you can choose between a boat or an elephant - it's so shallow that they can walk on the ground!

Between Lak and Buon Ma Thuot, a local bus runs every half hour or so. They have a couple of nice newer ones with AC (as of June 2013).

There are several Mai Linh buses a day to Dalat (coming from BMT), which takes around 5 hours with the last bus leaving in the early afternoon. Buy your ticket via eHalal Travel Group (80,000 dong) at the Mai Linh office rather than Daklak Tourist who will ask a much higher price. (Update Nov 2018: Mai Linh Express only does HCMC and Danang, not Dalat. Tuấn Anh, 36 Nguyến Văn Cừ and Phuc Thai? have services to Dalat)

If you want to stay overnight in Lak, Mr Duc (+84 905 371633) from Café Duc Mai (@) can arrange homestays in June longhouses for US$5, half the price asked by Daklak Tourist. He can also arrange other activities, such as elephant rides and boat trips on the lake, for a much lower price than Daklak Tourist. The café serves an excellent set meal (US$3) for dinner.

To get to the café, call ahead to get picked up or consider taking a moto (10,000 dong) once you arrive in Lak as it's next to the June village and a bit hard to find from the primary street. On foot, walk along the primary street to the 3-way intersection at the market and then follow the alley going past the market all the way to the end. Turn left, where the road makes a right turn curving around some Rice paddies. Follow this road until you see Café Duc Mai on the left side, 50 m in front of the June village entrance.

The people that provide you the service (homestay host, elephant rider, boat rower) get paid very little. For example, Daklak Tourist charges US$10 for homestay, Mr. Duc charges US$5 and the host only gets $0.50. You do need arrangement to be able to sleep in people's houses here as you're outsiders, but for other services (such as the boat tour of the lake), consider going directly to the local residents.

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