Bright yellow wild sunflowers in the highlands

Wild sunflowers - small sun lights up the highlands

Wild sunflowers have many names, some places call them chrysanthemums, mountain sunflowers, wild sunflowers... they are a genus of the Asteraceae family, originating from Mexico. Traveling halfway around the world, the first seeds of wild sunflowers have found new lands, choosing hillsides and mountains full of sunshine and wind to grow and flourish. Wild sunflowers are found in many places throughout Vietnam, but perhaps nowhere else are wild sunflowers as colorful and full of vitality as in the Central Highlands with its fertile red-brown basalt. As a flower of the sun, wild sunflowers live in the middle of the vast wilderness, no one plants them, no one fertilizes them, but every September and October they grow strongly and vigorously, as if there is a promise to the plateau: signaling the beginning of the dry season!

The season of wild sunflowers in the Central Highlands, from the porches, the small paths, the mountain passes to the hillsides are covered in a boundless yellow color. The wild sunflowers bloom like small suns, seemingly gathering all the sunlight to show off their colors at once, bursting brightly, warming the mountain town throughout a dry and cold season.

Flowers follow people to the market to start a new day. Flowers follow people to the fields to sow corn and pick tea. Flowers follow children to school. Flowers sway on the backs of mountain girls. Flowers form wreaths for couples to give to each other. Flowers dance with villagers around the fire... In this vast highland, wild sunflowers are a part of life, attached to the soul of every child of the red soil.

This season, from the western districts of Quang Nam to the Central Highlands, from Binh Phuoc to Dak Nong, from Lam Dong through the passes to Gia Lai, up to Kon Tum, to Bien Ho... you can see carpets of wild sunflowers blooming brilliantly yellow.

Wild sunflower season in dreamy Da Lat

The season of wild sunflowers in the Central Highlands is also the season when tourists come to Da Lat city to immerse themselves in a dreamy scene, immersed in the honey-yellow flowers. Da Lat has many beautiful flower viewing spots, such as the highway from Lien Khuong to Da Lat, or the Dran pass. From here, visitors can admire the mountain slopes covered in a seemingly endless yellow color. Or visitors can stroll through Van Thanh flower village, go to the Golden Valley, Lang Biang mountain... ideal places to view and take pictures with flowers.

Or more simply, you just need to buy a train ticket from Da Lat to Trai Mat, then let your soul follow the train's wheels while admiring the brilliant wild sunflowers on both sides of the road through the window...

Bao Loc is golden with wild sunflowers

Located on the route from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Lat, Bao Loc is a great destination to take photos of the wild sunflower season in the Central Highlands with its dreamy, pristine, and quiet beauty, giving visitors a feeling of peace and relaxation.

Here, you will find brilliant strips of wild sunflowers along the red dirt roads running into the tea hills, green coffee fields covered in morning mist, wild sunflower fences surrounding simple, pretty houses... But the most beautiful road to see wild sunflowers in Bao Loc is the road to Dambri waterfall, National Highway 20 towards Da Lat, where the bright yellow flowers are as passionate as the sunlight of the highlands.

Don Duong is full of yellow flowers

As the gateway to the Lam Vien plateau, Don Duong has a fresh, cool climate all year round and impressive natural scenery. Here, in addition to the brilliant wild sunflower carpets, you can also admire the green vegetable fields, winding mountain passes, towering mountain ranges in the distance, herds of buffalo leisurely on the hills of wild grass...

With just a motorbike, you can follow the quiet roads to wander around and find the yellow color of wild sunflowers of the Central Highlands at the foot of Dran Pass, on the way to Chau Son pine hill, Tu Tra commune area... In addition, Don Duong also has many interesting places to visit such as Da Lat milk company, O'star farm, dreamy and spacious Da Nhim lake, the quiet Giac Nguyen pagoda on the pine hill, Ka Don church with pointed roofs rising in the afternoon sun...

Go up Chu Dang Ya mountain to find the cave of yellow flowers

If you have ever traveled through the spectacular mountain passes in Gia Lai in the dry season, you will surely be impressed by the carpets of wild sunflowers that seem to cover the whole sky and land. About 20 km northeast of the center of Gia Lai mountain town, Chu Dang Ya is an inactive volcano, hidden in the middle of the majestic forest. The lava remains left here a fertile basalt area, where people built prosperous farms.

As the most beautiful place to see wild sunflowers in the Central Highlands, when coming to Chu Dang Ya, you can trek to the top of the mountain, overcome the challenging slopes, you will see the volcanic basin and have the opportunity to take in the whole peaceful Gia Lai sky, with beautiful interwoven patches of green and yellow.

Wild sunflowers in Pleiku, full of Tonle Sap Lake

The scenery of Pleiku Lake in the wild sunflower season has captivated visitors, especially when the sky and earth are shimmering with autumn, the lake surface is clear and calm like a mirror, reflecting the mountains and trees. Dotted in the immense green of the pine forest by the lake are carpets of brilliant wild sunflowers, reflecting on the shimmering lake surface.

As the pride of Gia Lai tourism, Bien Ho, also known as T'nung Lake, is where you can sit on a dugout canoe and follow the local people around to capture rare peaceful and romantic moments. At any time of the day, Bien Ho has its own beautiful color, but if you have time, you should linger here to watch the sunset, when the sun goes down the mountain, glowing with a splendid sunset.

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