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Da Lat

Dalat is a city of Lam Dong province, located on Lam Vien Plateau, Central Highlands, Vietnam. Since ancient times, this land area which is the residence of the Creek residents, the Chil and Coho ethnic Sre. Late 19th century, when looking for a place to build health resort for the French in Indochina, the Governor has decided Doumer Paul Lam Vien Plateau at the request of Dr. Alexandre Yersin, who explore to this place in 1893. In the first half of the 20th century, from a desolate place, the French had planned and built up a beautiful city with villas, offices, hotels and schools, a center for tourism and education Meanwhile training of Indochina. Over the period of ups and downs of two wars with difficult period 1970-1980 decades, Da Lat, a city of 209 thousand people, grade I provincial, hold a central role political, economic and culture in Lam Dong Province.

With an elevation 1500 meters above sea level and is the same pants mountains surrounding forest vegetation, Dalat inherited a mountain climate with cool temperate year round. History over a century also left the city a valuable architectural heritage, is like a museum of European architecture of the 20th century. The natural resources and abundant human help Dalat became one of the famous tourist spots of Vietnam, each year attracts millions of tourists to visit and vacation. Dalat is also a center for education and scientific research, a city of religious diversity in the presence of hundreds of temples, churches, monasteries ... a rich agricultural region with products especially vegetables and flowers. Thanks to its mild climate, beautiful natural scenery and rich architectural heritage, Dalat is also known with other names like "smog city", "city of information", "The city of flowers "," Cherry Xu flowers "or" Little Paris ".