Mang Den – Buon Ma Thuot – Danang Motorcycles

Mang Den - Buon Ma Thuot

Distance: 325 kms

Mang Den is one of my get up early and enjoy the dawn places. There’s some great walks but around Dak Ke Lake is one of the best if you like playing with cameras.

Whilst distance wise this is a big day, time wise with a reasonably early start you’ll do it easy. Most of the day is quite remote with very little traffic and comparatively less photo stops.

Early on there’s a village on your left. Turning off the map and exploring out the other side of the village is a lot of fun but with the new awesome road now I usually stick at it these days.

After the right turn at the cross road watch for cattle on the road for the first few kilometres. Thereafter you have two hours of motorcycling bliss.

(A & B) Are my preferred coffee and food stops. Around (B) theres plenty of options.

Between (B & C) is mostly farmland but in recent years like many other areas around the country has been littered with wind farms.

There’s an unavoidable stretch on the main road. When on that keep your speed in check. There’s always police presence there.

(D & E) Are very cool coffee stops though which take you on an alternative route to miss most of it.

(F,G & H) Once into town are the town monument, a good value hotel and an interesting afternoon or night spot if with a group of thirsty lads.

Buon Ma Thuot, is the capital and economic hub of the Dak Lak Province. With a population of around 440,000 its the largest city in the Central Highlands and prides itself with a coffee culture. The city is tidy and the people for a big city ooze a country town hospitality attitude.