Kontum
Area: 9690.5 km ²
Population: 383.1 thousand people (2006)
Capital: Kontum Town.
Districts: Dak Glei, Ngoc Hoi, Dak To, Kon Ray, Kon Plong, Dak Ha, Tu Mo Rong, Sa Thay.
Ethnic groups: Vietnamese (Kinh), Xo Dang, Ba Na, Gie Trieng, Raglai ...
Area: 9690.5 km ²
Population: 383.1 thousand people (2006)
Capital: Kontum Town.
Districts: Dak Glei, Ngoc Hoi, Dak To, Kon Ray, Kon Plong, Dak Ha, Tu Mo Rong, Sa Thay.
Ethnic groups: Vietnamese (Kinh), Xo Dang, Ba Na, Gie Trieng, Raglai ...
Attractions: Member Buon Ma Thuot, Dak To School Campaign - Tan Canh, Hell Kon Tum, Ba Na Village, Home raised Highlands, The Highlands empty.
Natural conditions
Most territory Kon Tum lower terrain from west to east and from north to south. Area north of the province has the highest mountains of the United Cuong South; top Ngok Linh 2.598m, 2.251m top Ngoc Phan. This is the cradle of the river painting, river Thu Bon, Tra Khuc River, river Ba. Kon Tum has over 50% of the forest with the forest where the wood you, the special forest products and rare birds. Addition, Kon Tum land basalts also relevant to industrial crops such as rubber, coffee, tea, sugarcane, mulberry ... and grasslands to grow favorable breeding cattle.
Kon Tum plateau climate monsoon, the average temperature of 23.4 º C, average rainfall in 1.884mm. Rainy season from May to October, dry season from November to April next year.
Potential for tourism development
Kon Tum has several temples, seminaries, churches wood, which was built next to the empty long traditional architecture unique ... Here visitors will see the attraction of a culture of Central Highlands, the scenic attraction.
Traffic
Kon Tum town to city. Buon Ma Thuot 246km, 215km to Quy Nhon to Pleiku and 49km. 14 long highway runs west from the town of Quang Nam Kon Tum, Gia Lai went down - Dak Lak - Dist. Ho Chi Minh National Highway 24 connects Kontum to Quang Ngai.
Natural conditions
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Kon Tum province in the northern highlands Gia Lai - Kon Tum, one of three large highland plateau. Kon Tum has a length of 275km border, adjacent to Laos and northern Cambodia lower Cambodia to the west, the northern border province of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai province east, the south province of Gia Lai.
Most territory Kon Tum lower terrain from west to east and from north to south. Area north of the province has the highest mountains of the United Cuong South; top Ngok Linh 2.598m, 2.251m top Ngoc Phan. This is the cradle of the river painting, river Thu Bon, Tra Khuc River, river Ba. Kon Tum has over 50% of the forest with the forest where the wood you, the special forest products and rare birds. Addition, Kon Tum land basalts also relevant to industrial crops such as rubber, coffee, tea, sugarcane, mulberry ... and grasslands to grow favorable breeding cattle.
Kon Tum plateau climate monsoon, the average temperature of 23.4 º C, average rainfall in 1.884mm. Rainy season from May to October, dry season from November to April next year.
Potential for tourism development
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Kon Tum town was built on the banks of Dak Bla River, a tributary of the river PO Ko, between a high plain is 525m. This is the administrative center of the old French in the Central Highlands. The French director has tried to arrive in 1851. Kon Tum visitors will have the opportunity to visit many beauty of the mountainous Central Highlands forest as Ngok Linh Mountain, forests Ray Chu Mon, Sa Thay, Dak Tre Tourist areas in the district of Kon Plong, Dak To Hot Spring . There is also a prison Kon Tum, Dak GLei Prison, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Dak To the battlefield - New Landscape, which has recorded victories proud and glorious hero of the nation.
Ethnic, religious
Ethnic, religious
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As the province has more than 20 ethnic groups live, 51% of the population are ethnic minorities, most of Ba Na, Xo Dang, Gie Trieng, Gia Rai, B 'vegetables, RO Min ... Most ethnic minorities live in job as farms and hunting. Kon Tum has a diverse culture, more colors of the ethnic community of Highlands. Life of the villages of ethnic compatriots with distinct customs and practices, many of its excellent traditional festivals such as Festival gongs, buffalo stabbing ceremony, code, happy new rice ...
Kon Tum has several temples, seminaries, churches wood, which was built next to the empty long traditional architecture unique ... Here visitors will see the attraction of a culture of Central Highlands, the scenic attraction.
Traffic
Kon Tum town to city. Buon Ma Thuot 246km, 215km to Quy Nhon to Pleiku and 49km. 14 long highway runs west from the town of Quang Nam Kon Tum, Gia Lai went down - Dak Lak - Dist. Ho Chi Minh National Highway 24 connects Kontum to Quang Ngai.
Attractions:
Home empty Highlands
Location: The Highlands only empty villages in the north Highlands, especially in Kon Tum.
Features: Each trade, the village up a large house on stilts is beautifully decorated in the trade, called the empty village. House empty the place where important events: Tet holidays, village, wedding, prayers and a meeting place of the old villages, young boys, girls ...
Home empty Highlands
Location: The Highlands only empty villages in the north Highlands, especially in Kon Tum.
Features: Each trade, the village up a large house on stilts is beautifully decorated in the trade, called the empty village. House empty the place where important events: Tet holidays, village, wedding, prayers and a meeting place of the old villages, young boys, girls ...
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Home empty each nation has its own definition of the architecture, creating designs, decorated. But generally the empty house to remain one, usually triple, four common fold, with pointed roofs swept up the slopes and trees to the column, usually eight columns by giant trees, straight, sure; pointed roof ice is to win, drying carefully until golden iridescent. On the truss is decorated with patterns of brightly colored with religious worship, the legend of the legendary artist's brave long ago, the stylized animals, the animals, scenes of living close to life villages. Prominent in the hollow decorative image is bright morning sun goddess.
To empty houses as beautiful as they show villages rich, powerful.
Crypt Highlands
Location: The Highlands are raised in most of the Central Highlands provinces.
Characteristics: The tomb was built by Highland funeral customs in the Central Highlands, at the small hut is raised after one or several families of relatives killed reconstructed raised new spacious home, page much the timber location.
To empty houses as beautiful as they show villages rich, powerful.
Crypt Highlands
Location: The Highlands are raised in most of the Central Highlands provinces.
Characteristics: The tomb was built by Highland funeral customs in the Central Highlands, at the small hut is raised after one or several families of relatives killed reconstructed raised new spacious home, page much the timber location.
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As the funeral customs of some ethnic people in the Highlands, after burying the dead, people make a small hut on the grave sketchy to cover rain cover for the dead sun. In the hut usually put some belongings of the dead.
Then one or several years, relatives of the family died out the old tomb, the tomb building a new more spacious, more solidly, decorative wood objects, a fence around the tomb
Then one or several years, relatives of the family died out the old tomb, the tomb building a new more spacious, more solidly, decorative wood objects, a fence around the tomb
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Keep the hut, the building of a new tomb in the Central Highlands ethnic people are usually held in the spring (dry season) and is regarded as a great festival (holidays code) of the population. They brought to the graveyard wine, meat, fish, animal sacrifice. Relatives of the deceased and the same happy, eating, dancing on one or more open houses to share the special lifetime the deceased.
Keep out the concept raised by the event, the person most responsible life care, worship for the deceased and the liberation of all Giang required if young can get the wife (or husband) to; still people too early pregnancy to try to be another life ...
Ba Na Village
Location: In the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum.
Characteristics: Ba Na Village are sticky on the ground floor building square or rectangular, up the stairs is often a family tree, hewn into wearing elaborately pretty rank.
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Ba Na ethnic groups is one of three indigenous nations most crowded in the Central Highlands, they live mostly in the province of Kon Tum. Ba Na Kon Tum is the name of community focus in Ba Na Kon Tum town. As the free Ba Na Kon means village, Tum means lakes, ponds. Kon Tum village has many ponds and lakes.
Visit Ba Na Village, visitors will see the sticky up on the ground floor square or rectangular, up the stairs is often a family tree, hewn into wearing elaborately pretty rank.
Visit Ba Na Village, visitors will see the sticky up on the ground floor square or rectangular, up the stairs is often a family tree, hewn into wearing elaborately pretty rank.
Ba Na ethnic people are the first in the Central Highlands that used in the writing life and cattle used for plowing. But they have not known life science organizations, rice only on each project. Previously Ba Na people have traditionally good hunting, to the family you can see it with a few very strong wood.
Like many other ethnic groups in the Central Highlands, the floor of Ba Na is always red coal fire stove. Kitchen is the center of every living member of the family.
Ba Na men often have scars in the chest. That traces of their own triggers or by taking coal fire rose into the chest of a dead house, expressed regret for the deceased.
Kon Tum prison
Location: The Kon Tum prison located in the western town of Kon Tum.
Characteristics: Do the French built to detained political prisoners, the soldiers of the revolution in our time period in 1930-1931.
To 1975 when the war ended, Kon Tum prison became the historic South Vietnam. After reports of damage, only beer and memorial tombs of revolutionary martyrs 8. Kon Tum is a hell attractions historic revolution.
Battlefield Dak To - Tan Canh
Location: Across Vietnam Dak To - Dak To, Tan Canh District, Kon Tum, Kon Tum town 42km to the north.
Characteristics: Where fierce battle took place in the war against the U.S. in 1972.
Dak To become familiar with a place for American veterans have been involved in Vietnam war to return to visit old battlefields.
Visitors will see the additional horn in the center town of Dak To and memorial stelae large splendid record famous victories of the battlefield Dak To - New Landscape.
A 5km south of Dak To Charlie Hill is also a relic of the ancient battlefield Kon Tum.
Like many other ethnic groups in the Central Highlands, the floor of Ba Na is always red coal fire stove. Kitchen is the center of every living member of the family.
Ba Na men often have scars in the chest. That traces of their own triggers or by taking coal fire rose into the chest of a dead house, expressed regret for the deceased.
Kon Tum prison
Location: The Kon Tum prison located in the western town of Kon Tum.
Characteristics: Do the French built to detained political prisoners, the soldiers of the revolution in our time period in 1930-1931.
To 1975 when the war ended, Kon Tum prison became the historic South Vietnam. After reports of damage, only beer and memorial tombs of revolutionary martyrs 8. Kon Tum is a hell attractions historic revolution.
Battlefield Dak To - Tan Canh
Location: Across Vietnam Dak To - Dak To, Tan Canh District, Kon Tum, Kon Tum town 42km to the north.
Characteristics: Where fierce battle took place in the war against the U.S. in 1972.
Dak To become familiar with a place for American veterans have been involved in Vietnam war to return to visit old battlefields.
Visitors will see the additional horn in the center town of Dak To and memorial stelae large splendid record famous victories of the battlefield Dak To - New Landscape.
A 5km south of Dak To Charlie Hill is also a relic of the ancient battlefield Kon Tum.
Location: Located in the heart of Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak province.
Characteristics: United States Member Buon Ma Thuot very close to hotels, motels in the city.
Visitors can stroll the streets join, mail drop to U.S. members - a process designed to build a modern style combined with features of the Central Highlands. There are many services and entertainment: flower garden, miniature garden birds, the artificial cafe beverages ... very suitable for relaxation after performing travel distance or evening hot weather
Characteristics: United States Member Buon Ma Thuot very close to hotels, motels in the city.
Visitors can stroll the streets join, mail drop to U.S. members - a process designed to build a modern style combined with features of the Central Highlands. There are many services and entertainment: flower garden, miniature garden birds, the artificial cafe beverages ... very suitable for relaxation after performing travel distance or evening hot weather
