In the Central Highlands, a year is two rainy and sunny seasons.
The rainy season lasts from May to November, the rain rots the soil, and the rain irrigates the thirsty coffee gardens. The rain makes all the basalt red dirt roads slippery and difficult to walk, but it creates a different beauty for the Central Highlands – the majestic waterfalls throwing white foam. The sound of rain in the sound of the waterfall flowing loudly at night is like the harmony of the mountains and forests of the Central Highlands.
Photo: Vien Dieu Phat
After months of heavy rain, the dry season starts from November to April next year. The beautiful days of this place begin with a pronounced transformation with cloudless blue skies and warm rays of sunshine. This time is also the best time to explore the Central Highlands. The air is pleasant, it is sunny during the day and chilly in the afternoon and very cold at night.
The Central Highlands sun warms everything, ripening coffee beans. From Kon Tum to Dak Lak, sunny, coffee fields with ripe red fruits on the branches. The aroma of coffee is hard, holding the feet of travelers passing by. As the coffee capital of the country with export volume ranked in the top 3 largest coffee exporting countries in the world, delicious Central Highlands coffee is famous for its basalt red soil and suitable altitude, in harmony with the Central Highlands sunshine and wind.
Photo: Vien Dieu Phat
The days of coffee harvest are bustling all over the villages near and far. Coffee is an economic crop that brings stable income to ethnic minority people. Coffee trees are grown everywhere. In the garden, on the field, in the alley, by the fence. Everywhere is ripe red. The harvested coffee beans are dried, until sunny enough, and go through many stages, before becoming a fragrant cup of coffee in the hands of a certain guest. The Central Highlands coffee is warm, contains enough sunshine and wind, and enough kindness of the Central Highlands people.
Walking among the coffee gardens, I got lost in the aroma, intoxicated by the rich flavor. I followed the Ede girls carrying the sacks up to the fields, picking the ripe coffee beans with my own hands. The fingers scented with coffee, the tanned cheeks, and the crisp laughter disappeared here and there.
Photo: Industry and Trade
The Red Soil of the Central Highlands is experimented with planting many new types of fruit trees. Among the myriad varieties that have been cultivated, passion fruit, avocado and durian and coffee are combined, creating outstanding delicious fruits for this land.
Then the Central Highlands road floats in the beautiful wildflower season. I don't know when, that wildflower with a bright color like the sun has become the true beauty of this place. Wild anemones with intense vitality, grow wild on the hillsides, into flower carpets, fences, into flower walls. Wildflowers compete with the sun, showing off their wild beauty with thousands of green forests. The flower season has become the dating season for lovers of the Central Highlands. They returned to this land, those who flew directly by plane, those who took the car the next night, quietly immersed themselves in the golden season of sunny flowers, enjoying a splendid Central Highlands. After the days of March filled with white coffee flowers like clouds, in November, the Central Highlands once again wore the most beautiful golden dress.
Photo: Environmental Economics/VNP
The autumn days in the Central Highlands are most pronounced when the rubber forests change new colors. In no hurry, the green leaves in the smoked rubber forests gradually turn yellow, mixed with red on the branches. Just waiting for a wind to shiver and shed the leaves. The season of rubber changing leaves creates a beautiful natural picture for the Central Highlands. At this time, rubber does not give latex, and the rubber forest is also quiet and empty of people. There are only straight, soaring trees, intertwined with dried latex streams. There was only the rustling of the wind and the swaying of the sun dancing endlessly along the foliage.
Photo: Vien Dieu Phat
Photo: Ho Quoc
Driving on red dirt roads, through straight rubber forests, with armrests, lying on a thick carpet of leaves like a soft carpet, closing your eyes, letting your heart be empty, letting the wind echo and the sun dancing, to fully enjoy the dry and sunny season of the Central Highlands.
In December, I picked up my backpack and came to the sunny Central Highlands. There are so many wonderful things waiting for you in that place.
Synthetic Migo