By Vy Truong- Product expert

Dalat, located in the Lam Vien plateau in the Central Highlands, is a favorite place of many tourists coming to Vietnam. Dalat has made a deep impression and left an unforgettable experience to any tourists who used to set foot on by its cooling climate, friendly local people, and beautiful natural landscapes.

You can find many charming places to take pictures, from little alleys to the mountains, hills, and waterfalls. If you are interested in photography, Dalat will be a suitable destination for you. In this post, you can find the 10 best Instagram and photography spots in Dalat. They are also the most popular attractions to visit during your Dalat holiday. Let's come and add a more beautiful picture to your collections!

Lam Vien Square

Lam Vien Square is right in the city center with the front side towards Xuan Huong Lake. With the prime location and unique works of architecture, the square is an impressive highlight of Dalat.

You will be impressed by an enormous architecture looking like a flower bud. The giant building has a height of more than 15 meters, with the steel frame twisted in the shape of the artichoke flower bud and the outer part surrounded by yellow and green glass panels.

You can also find a unique building with the shape of the wild yellow sunflower. With the design lying on one side, the yellow petals hugging into curves, you can completely imagine a giant wild sunflower from any view of the square.

Tuyen Lam Lake

Tuyen Lam Lake is about 6 kilometers from the city center. This lake is the most extensive freshwater lake in Dalat with many oases, surrounded by the pine forests.

Visiting the lake, you will be overwhelmed by the blend of rivers and streams, mountains, and hills together with the primary forest. The lake is an ideal attraction to take photos. As long as you pick up the camera, you can capture every remarkable moment, every glittering scenery you like.

To enjoy the whole scenery around the lake, you can take a boat trip crossing the lake to the other side for a hike in the jungle. It's also a beautiful place to go fishing with the locals. Climbing to Pinhatt Mountain's peak next to the lake will be an enjoyable experience while you can take many beautiful scenery pictures.

Truc Lam Monastery

Dalat's Truc Lam Monastery is the largest in Vietnam. Located in the Phoenix Mountain, the monastery is only 5 kilometers south of the city center.

Coming to the monastery, you will be astonished by the architectural work right next to Tuyen Lam lake. From Tuyen Lam Lake, you can follow the small path with 140 stone steps to penetrate the vast pine forests to the monastery above. The ceiling of the main hall covered with bright glazed tile roofs. The roofs bend elegantly, which is a feature of Vietnamese architecture.

The favorite highlight of this Truc Lam monastery is the flower garden in front of the main hall. In the beautiful flower garden, you can find many precious flowers such as purple sims, Australian cotton, Phu Dung. All types of flowers are collected and grown by monks and nuns inside the interior.

The scenery and the architecture of Truc Lam Monastery are worth taking pictures.

Van Thanh Flower village

Flower gardens are one of the unique points in Dalat. You can find flowers in most of the corners of Dalat. Van Thanh Flower village is among the attractions you can find varieties types of flowers.

The village is 3 kilometers from the city center. You will be overwhelmed with a lot of flowers blooming all year round. Due to suitable climate and excellent care techniques, the artisans in the village have transplanted, crossbreed to create new varieties types of flowers with more beautiful and elegant colors.

The village is encased in glass houses to avoid harsh sunlight, strong winds when it rains heavily. The glass cage will protect those blooming flowers.

Let's visit and immerse yourself in the color of velvet roses, lilies, lotus petals, white daisies, carnations, gerberas, etc., and show your photography skills.

St. Nicolas De Bari Cathedral

St. Nicolas De Bari Cathedral, also called Chicken Church, is a typical architecture of France from ancient times. The church is so-called as there is a chicken statue on the top of the bell tower roof.

The Chicken church is designed in the cross shape, with a length of 65 meters and a height of 47 meters, facing Lang Biang mountain in the front.

You should climb the bell tower to see and take photos of some beautiful scenes in the city.

Cau Dat Tea Hill

Cau Dat Tea Hill is becoming a favorite destination for tourists in Dalat. Tea Hill is nearly 100 years old, stretching over a large area, with an altitude of 1650 meters above sea level. The green tea hills are spreading to the horizon as if there's nothing else on this planet rather than tea plantation. There are lovely little houses, designed in the French architecture, dotted on the hillsides. There are also a few nursery gardens that make the scenery more lively.

When you come to Cau Dat Tea hill in the last months of the year, you can admire a tea hill with green tea leaves and the yellow of beautiful wild sunflowers under the blue sky. If you happen to be in Cau Dat during the harvest days, you will catch the pictures you always dream about as the farmers will light up the plantation with their beauty. You will have a chance to visit a tea manufacturing factory to learn the process of making green tea too.

Continuous green tea hills stretching endlessly, under the morning mist or sunset will be an excellent background for shooting. Let's come and enjoy the atmosphere of Cau Dat on your own!

Dalat Farm Milk

Dalat Farm Milk is also an ideal place to take photos in Dalat.

Visiting the farm will allow you to learn about the daily works of workers and the techniques to produce milk. However, the farm itself attracts tourists, especially photographers, by its romantic setting and unique style of architecture.

The scenery of large green pastures, with cows grazing far away, giant windmills is peaceful and poetic. The small trails, winding through flower fields, are always beautiful scenery making anyone coming here surprised. With such romantic settings, Dalat Milk Farm is also an ideal place for couples to create unique wedding photos.

If you would like to have the most beautiful picture, visit the farm from October to December. The season of buckwheat flowers and sunflowers bloom in the farm can be a perfect background for fascinating pictures.

Passage of clay

The passage of clay is at the end of Tuyen Lam Lake. This attraction appeals to tourists because it recreates the history of Dalat from ancient times to modern days.

The whole sculpture tunnel project has two main topics that are recreating the history and humanistic, cultural-educational stories of Dalat city. Visiting the passage of clay, you will have a chance to enrich your photo collections with these unique features. It is also a way for you to recall ancient, old and current Dalat.

The first stage of the clay tunnel tells you about the beginning days of Dalat with legends of wild nature fully depicted from all kinds of wild animals to unspoiled nature. The second stage describes the time when Dr. Yersin discovered the Dalat. The unique architectural and cultural constructions illustrate the beginning of Da Lat city, such as the train station, Bao Dai Palace, Pasteur Institute, Da Lat University, Chicken Church, Xuan Huong Lake, Da Lat Market, and so on. Finally, Dalat appears in present days with many new architectures like Lien Khuong International Airport, highways, Tuyen Lam Lake. The setting of this place is stunning for pictures, especially if you want an awesome Instagram post.

Let's come to the clay tunnel to take photos and learn about Dalat.

Pongour Waterfall

One of the most attractive destinations in Da Lat that visitors want to explore is the Ponguor waterfall. The waterfall is also known as a "seven-story waterfall" because this waterfall flows through a 7-story stone system with an altitude of nearly 40 meters. The primary forest of 2.5 ha surrounds the Pongour Waterfall with rich and diverse flora and fauna ecosystem.

The waterfall is about 50 kilometers from Dalat city. To explore the waterfall, you will have two ways to get to the foot of the fall. The main road is a long and gentle slope, easy to go while the second road is shorter but higher steps.

You will be overwhelmed by the magnificence and majestic scenery of Pongour Waterfall at the height of 30 meters down to the foot. The sound of a stream of water tumbling down from above into a significant lake echoes in the mountain.

You can visit Pongour Waterfall in both rainy and dry seasons. No matter what season you come, you still have a chance to admire the water falling from above, touching in the stone. You will feel that you are immersing yourself in the magnificent picture of nature. Especially when you wake up early and come to enjoy the waterfall in the sunrise, you will catch up with the charming scenery of the sunlight shining on the water, the sound of birds around, and the sound of water collided with rocks.

Lang Biang Mountain

Lang Biang Mountain is the highest mountain in Dalat. It is 12 kilometers to the North from the Dalat city center. When coming to Lang Biang mountain, you can choose to climb about seven to eight kilometers, which will take you one to two hours, or you can travel by jeep cars.

Lang Biang is 2167m above the sea. No matter what you are standing in Dalat, you can see the mountain with three prominent peaks, including Rada Peak, Lang Peak, and Biang Peak.

You will feel being lost in paradise with rows of pine trees and wildflowers on both sides of the road. The higher you go, the wider the landscape becomes. The sky with clouds floating, the fog covering the hill, is an incredible scenery. Your experience will be complete by conquering the peak when the sun sets behind the mountain.

Let's pick up your camera and capture the Dalat's panoramic views in the peak dubbed as "the roof of the mist city."