Da Lat Flower 2

Da Lat is the capital of Lam Dong Province, located on Lam Vien Plateau, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. In ancient times, this area was the residence of Lach people, Chil people and Sre people of Coho ethnic group. At the end of the 19th century, when searching for a place to build a French resort in Indochina, Governor Paul Doumer decided to choose Lam Vien plateau as proposed by Dr. Alexandre Yersin, who had explored arrived here in 1893. In the first half of the 20th century, from a wilderness place, the French had planned and built a beautiful city with villas, offices, hotels and schools, a center of tourism and education of Indochina at the time. Experiencing the ups and downs of the two wars and the difficult period of the 1970s and 1980s, Da Lat is now a city of 211,000 inhabitants, politics, economics and culture of Lam Dong Province.