Yok Don national park in Buon Don district, Ea Sup district, Dak Lak province, taking 40 km from northwest of Buon Ma Thuot city, is one of the largest area preserving natural sources in the country with a total area of 115,545ha. Yok Don National Park is the ideal destination for tourists, because this is the home of many rich and unique wild natures. The vast forests of the Yok Don forest ecosystem bring typical features of Southeast Asia’s tropical forest intermingled with lush green and scrub forests with many precious timber trees such as maple, broccoli, redwood, and purple leaves.

The terrain is relatively flat, including the Yok Don and Reheng mountain. Primary forest accounts for over 90% of the total area of the park, which is an ideal habitat for plant and animal species. Coming to the Yok Don national park, tourists will have opportunities to immerse in the diversity of nature. Yok Don has 67 species of mammals, 196 species of birds, 46 species of reptiles, 15 species of amphibians and about 100 species of insects live. Having said that, the wildlife of Yok Don is not only abundant and diverse but also very specific to the fauna of Southeast Asia.

Reserving 56 species of rare animals in Indochina, Yok Don has 36 species and 17 species listed in the world red book such as elephant, forest buffalo, horns, star deer, chamois, pheasant, pheasant , flute, and phoenix . This is the only area in Vietnam where there are many valuable animals such as bison, deer, cauliflower, water dew . Also, the flora here is very rich and diverse species with 464 species, many species only in the Central Highlands. This place also collects many rare flowers. Particularly, orchids alone has over 23 species with beautiful colors. Especially, Yok Don is the only area in Vietnam that preserves the forest type of dipterocarp forest.

In addition, Yok Don National Park preserves many cultural values of the Central Highlands such as Ede, M’Nong, and Laos. Yok Don national park still preserves a lot of traditional stilt houses with beautiful and elaborate carvings, showing the skillful hands and creativity of the locals. More than that, Yok Don National Park is also famous for hunting and domesticating elephants. Tourists will be able to see elephant-hunting equipment and can ride elephants amidst the jungle or elephants crossing the Serepok river flowing from east to west while most of the rivers flow from west to east and then into the sea.

Originating from Nam Da mountain, Krong No district, Srepok river flowing through C’Dut district to Buon Don district, Serepok river flooded around the Yok Don National Park to form a natural belt to protect the forest. The trees along the river bank grows innumerable branches, roots intercropped diagonally across each other creating unique stilt house with branches for tourists to cross through rivers and forests. When the night falls, tourists can participate in the fire camp with the vibrant music of creative instruments of the Central Highlands such as gongs, K’ram, flute, and Dinh Phuoc. In addition to tours of Yok Don, Dak Lak, tourists also able to organize picnic tours, hiking, and camping in the forest or renting a house in a small riverside, and enjoy the scenery of the mountains, and smoothy rivers when the sunset.

Let’s come to Yok Don national park and dive in the beautiful natures with a lot of traditional activities associated with the special cultural value in Buon Me Thuot!