Buon Don is a Highland village situated in Krong Na hamlet Buon Don district. In former time, speaking of Buon Don, they considered it as a spacious area spreading smoothly towards the Serepok River, a gentle spring running elephant.Buon Don gains various race character of ethnic minorities such as: Laotian, Khmer, M’nong, J’rai, Vietnamese and lots of North ethnic groups have just come to make their living. The story of “Buon Don in former” is interesting and strange.

At the border to Laos and Cambodia. Buon Don possesses a unique and diverse culture. Also, it was named Buon Don in the Edeh language and Ban Don in Laotian language. Both words of Buon, Ban mean Village, and Don as the island. The name “The island Village” is the Village situated in the heart of the waterfall of 7 tides. In the dry season, it has got many sets just out as glue with Benjamine figs and vegetables. Buon Don’s myth sung from generation to generation that those miniature houses built in fresh grave of architecture was beautiful sculptured as many monumental pictures and several of long-poems. The Village founder, the hero of hunting elephant, called the elephant hunter’s King whose name is talent Khunsunop. For preventing the tradition, they launched the hard Law on Hunting and Feeding elephant with many anecdotes infatuating most of tourists, researchers…

In 1890, the French appeared in this land and schemed to form Buon Don. After 14 years, the French moved the Metropolis from Buon Don to BuonMaThuot.

Mentioning to Buon Don, the homeland of hunting elephant, where there are many long-poems and wonderful natural landscapes, we mean a place having a great potential of tourist activities with various ways as: researching, getting knowledge on forms of ethnic culture, the eco-tourist for anyone who loves adventure, flora and fauna, nature…

Coming to Buon Don, visitors are able to witness the daily life, culture and custom of the ethnic minorities. To visit the architectural tomb of Khunsunop, trek by elephant with sightseeing to the Serepok River, Yok Don National Park with the preserving zone of zoology and botany are classified as rare and precious.

If tourists have demands for getting their knowledge on culture-custom, the owners of Buon Don will hold the Night of culture for them to have a drink of jar-wine and enjoy folk culture activities. Besides, visitors are able to row piragua along the Serepok River as well as to visit waterfall of 7 tides.

By observing foreigner tourists without hat on their heads riding on motorbikes on the full sunshine-steep roads, we start feeling on the attraction of this odd land. It is true that the magic in the mountainous singing voice, the rocky springs, and the green-covered hills make the stories of remote Buon Don and the traditional festivals are lovelier.

Buon Don, the homeland of elephant hunting and taming will dote on tourists when they come here.