Highlands
Bao Loc Tea Highlands
Published on May 28, 2026
Overview
Bao Loc in Lam Dong Province is the centre of Vietnam's tea industry and one of the country's main silk producers — a working, authentic destination with little mass tourism.
What to Do
- Tea plantation tours — walk through vast Oolong tea estates and learn picking and processing
- Silk weaving villages in Loc Bao — watch mulberry worms spin cocoons and looms weave silk
- Dambri Waterfall — one of southern Vietnam's highest waterfalls at 57m, 18 km from town
- Linh Quy Phap An Pagoda — spectacular new pagoda on a forested hilltop with giant Buddha statues
Best Time to Visit
November to April.
Getting There
Bus from Ho Chi Minh City (4 hrs) or Da Lat (2 hrs).