A unique thrilling experience at Datanla Waterfall

Kieu Giang

Tourists can experience the High Rope Course at Datanta tourist site in the Central Highlands city of Dalat

Those who are searching for high sensational experience should consider the High Rope Course at Datanta tourist site in the Central Highlands city of Dalat in Lam Dong Province as an ideal destination to prove their bravery, strength and team-work spirit to conquer tough challenges.

Datanla tourist site with its well-known Datanla Waterfall is located along National Highway 20 on the Prenn Pass, one of the most romantic hillside roads in Dalat. The site is about 5km away from Dalat City to the south.

For years, travelers have been used to take 200 stone steps on a 1km journey across a pine forest to admire the imposing waterfall. Recently, the site has launched its thrilling entertainment zone High Rope Course, a popular outdoor game concept in the world but quite new to Vietnam. Once arriving at the place, tourists can experience Alpine Coaster at the speed of 20km/h to 40km/h in the air to admire the magnificence of the primitive forest in the Central Highlands and Datanla Waterfall, or Canyon Tour to cross the waterfall. Especially, the zipline challenge has drawn much attention of tourists who wish to fly in the air by a pulley and supported by other modern equipments.

There are ten rounds distinguished by yellow, green, orange, blue, red and black colors with 80 challenges for players at the height of 18m in the air. The difficulty will increase after each challenge. At first and second rounds, players will learn how to use all the safety equipments and techniques to play the game on three terrains of wooden stairs, footbridge and zipline.

It takes each player 120 minutes to finish all the challenges. The High Rope Course, which is developed and managed by Dalattourist, has been put into operation since March 2015. The coaches and guides were trained at Bali Treetop Adventure Park (Indonesia) using imported facilities and equipments.