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Kon Pring, a peaceful village in the Central Highlands
Kon Pring is a picturesque community-based tourism village surrounded by a valley of thousands of tall green pines. It is likened to a second Da Lat in the Central Highlands due to its cool climate year-round .
the green forest. Surrounding the communal house are small beautiful stilt houses lined up one after another. Many small streams flow through the village connecting the surrounding mountainous terrain and pine forest. In the blue smoke mingled with the clouds of Kon Pring mountain, graceful girls washed clothes by the water wells, children chattered on the grass at the top of the village, and families
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ocated on Mang Den plateau, Kon Pring village belongs to Dak Long Commune, Kon Plong District, Kon Tum Province. This is one of four community cultural tourism villages in the district located along Highway 24, 3km east of the district centre. The Mo Nam people (a branch of the Xe Dang ethnic group) make up 95 percent of the population in this village.
gathered around in their kitchens. It was very simple but enchanting. According to the locals, the communal house is built high enough to reach the sky like that in order to gather the sacred air of heaven and earth. In this way, it
Looking down from the pine hill along Highway 24, Kon Pring stands out with the sky-high roof of its communal house poking out of the middle of
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