Former provincial city and capital of the former Kon Tum province, Vietnam
Photo: Bùi Thụy Đào Nguyên, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kon Tum is the capital of Kontum Province in Vietnam's Central Highlands.
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Houses a small minority museum, but the colonial-style building itself is well worth a visit.
Wooden Church
Built in 1913 and restored in the 1990s. It is remarkable for its blending of local artistic tradition and Christian symbols: Bahnar villages, elephants, a scale model of a rong.
If you are on a tight itinerary, it might be good to fix things beforehand, since they are often crowded with tour groups. Though some of the Bahnar villages actually form a part of Kontum's eastern and western edge, the ones farther away are more interesting. Highlights would be the different kinds of rong, the cemeteries of the Jarai, and joining a rice-wine party with the locals.
Separate from the hotel of the same name, Dakbla is nicely themed with decorations from the surrounding minority peoples. Wide variety of food including local and Western staples, excellent wild boar. Popular with tourists. English spoken.
Solid vegetarian option with rice, pho, and bun dishes.
Home to a local artist and a lot of his oeuvre is on display in the garden and the three-storey house resembling a stilt house. The place is a favourite among Vietnamese locals. The owner, Mr. An can also share in-depth knowledge of the Montagnards' culture and arrange day tours of Bahnar villages or explorations of indigenous culture, with local homestays.
Quiet two-storey café with good coffee and honest and nice staff.
Nice terrace from which you get excellent views of the sun setting over the Dakbla River.
Simple hotel in the south of the city along the same road as the wooden church (Nguyen Hue). Huge discounts for Vietnamese. Exterior rooms are very noisy. Windowless rooms reasonably quiet.
Broken English-speaking staff. Free Wi-Fi. Minibar prices only just above the street price. Restaurant downstairs. Bath tub. Air conditioning. Quiet location on a quiet street close to the Dak Bla River just after crossing the southern bridge. Hot water not always hot in some rooms.
Fairly nice hotel with standard rooms with TV. Maybe the best value in Kon Tum.
Clean mini hotel. All rooms have hot water, air-conditioning, Wi-Fi, mini-bar and a TV. The deluxe rooms also have a balcony and PC. Off road parking for motorbikes. Breakfast for 35,000 dong.
Two cottages, about ten persons maximum in each.
By motorbike
By bus
Kontum's bus station is on the north side of town, just off the highway.
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