If you want to explore the nearby forest areas of the Da Lat/Langbian Plateau, Da Lat City is such a comfortable base. Holding a large number of local species, the plateau offers unique species that you can only find here, or at a small area of Laos and Cambodia. Your discovery of this fascinating area will begin with a foray down to the Ta Nung Valley, which was famous for the rediscovery of the Vietnamese endemic Gray-crowned Crocias in the nineties, which remains regularly seen there. Besides Orange-breasted Laughingthrush, other local species, such as Indochinese Green Magpie and White-cheeked Laughingthrush can also be seen at Ta Nung. Red-billed Scimitar-Babbler, White-spectacled Warbler, Streaked Spiderhunter, Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird, Rufous-backed Sibias, the local race of Black-throated Sunbird and Black-headed are other birds you will be seeking at Ta Nung.

In the afternoon, from the hotel, you will head out to another very local site of Tuyen Lam lake, an attractive lake surrounded by pine woodland, which provides the possibility of Vietnamese Greenfinch, the endemic species of Black-collared Starling, Burmese Shrike, Chestnut-vented Nuthatch, Slender-billed Oriole and Red Crossbill. You will spend this and the following two nights in Da Lat City of Da Lat, which is a long-history tourist destination well known for its pleasantly moderate climate and scenic setting, and where a French Hill Station was built in the early part of twentieth century.