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What to buy when visiting Đà Lạt?
Đà Lạt, in the eyes of travelers, is a dreamy city with a cool, fresh climate year-round, serene valleys, and a misty ambiance. Mention Đà Lạt, and you recall the kingdom of flowers, fresh fruits, and vegetables characteristic of the region. Therefore, when you travel to Đà Lạt, you cannot overlook these specialties.
Fresh Vegetables and Fruits
Đà Lạt boasts a thriving agricultural sector, establishing its own brand in both domestic and export markets, thanks to advanced farming techniques and high-end technologies like hydroponics. Therefore, in Đà Lạt, you can freely enjoy fresh vegetables, and fruits such as cabbage, broccoli, asparagus, carrots, and especially strawberries.
Currently, there are numerous strawberry farms in Đà Lạt, some following traditional methods while others utilize high-tech hydroponic systems. Regardless of the cultivation method, Đà Lạt strawberries remain renowned for their large size, juicy sweetness, and refreshing aroma. The price of Đà Lạt strawberries ranges from 40,000 VND to 200,000 VND per kilogram (depending on the variety and season). Travel tip for Đà Lạt: If you want to buy affordable strawberries, visit between December and late April, when strawberries are in season, and prices range from 40,000 VND to 80,000 VND per kilogram. In Đà Lạt, you can experience strawberry picking in the fields, indulge in sightseeing and photography, and purchase ripe strawberries as gifts for your loved ones, family, and friends.
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Strawberry Gardens in Đà Lạt
Dried Fruits or Preserves
What to buy in Đà Lạt? Thanks to its mild climate and fertile soil, Đà Lạt offers a wide variety of fresh vegetables and fruits. During the harvest season, there is an abundance of produce in Đà Lạt, with farmers supplying the local population or exporting the surplus. The remaining produce is processed into dried fruits and preserves to retain their flavor, nutrients, and extend shelf life.
Preserves are made using special recipes, resulting in unique and delicious flavors. The preserves are chewy, soft, and intensely sweet, with various flavors from different fruits such as: Strawberry preserves, rose preserves, sweet potato preserves, artichoke flower preserves, tomato preserves,...
Alongside various preserves are dried vegetables, and fruits. Each type carries unique and delicious flavors, with fragrant and crunchy textures. Dried fruits from Đà Lạt range from 50,000 VND to 175,000 VND per 200-gram pack. Rest assured, preserves and dried fruits make excellent specialties to bring back as gifts for family and friends whenever you visit Đà Lạt.
Preserves in Đà Lạt
Wine
Next, we cannot overlook a famous specialty of Đà Lạt, which is highly regarded as a gift item: wine. Đà Lạt wine brands are not only renowned locally but also nationwide and for export. Đà Lạt wines are fermented from fresh and juicy fruits, resulting in a superbly aromatic and delicious quality. The price of Đà Lạt wine is quite affordable, starting from 100,000 VND per bottle, yet its taste rivals that of imported wines.
You can purchase fine wine for gifts from reputable stores in Da Lat such as Dalat Winery – 31 Ngô Văn Sở, Dalat Wine Showroom – 2 Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa,...
Dalat wine
Artichoke tea
Besides fruits and wine, artichoke tea and flowers are also among the famous specialties in Da Lat. Artichoke tea is made from artichoke flowers, a type of flower with a light fragrance, having many beneficial effects such as body detoxification, cooling, and cleansing. After being harvested, artichoke flowers are dried and ground, put into bags to make tea. This is a very fragrant and delicious drink, helping to detoxify the body, and promote beautiful skin. Surely Dalat artichoke tea will be a meaningful gift for women.
Artichoke flowers are used to make tea
Flowers
Da Lat is also known as the city of thousands of flowers, with a variety of species such as: Roses, sunflowers, lavender, daisies,... When visiting Da Lat, you can not only admire and take photos next to colorful flower gardens, but also choose for yourself the most special flower pots, the most special flowers to give to your loved ones, and friends. Especially, if you go on a self-sufficient trip to Da Lat, don't forget to visit the Da Lat Flower Festival held in December (once every 2 years), this is one of the city's major events to attract tourists for sightseeing, relaxation, as well as promoting the great beauty of this place.
A small note for you is that if you plan to visit Da Lat during the Flower Festival, you should hunt for cheap flight tickets to Da Lat and book Da Lat hotels early to avoid encountering situations of service shortage and high prices. In addition, if you want more convenience and savings for the trip expenses, you can also refer to the Da Lat saving combo - one of the travel forms that many people love recently.
Flower gardens in Da Lat
Ethnic handicrafts, woolen items
When you come to Da Lat, you will experience four seasons in one day, cool in the morning, warm sunshine at noon, and chilly evenings. That's why fashion items and accessories in Da Lat are diverse and abundant. Especially ethnic handicrafts and woolen items such as: woolen sweaters, woolen hats, scarves, gloves, socks, phone cases, handbags,... Ethnic handicrafts and woolen items in Da Lat have a characteristic of durability with reasonable prices. These will also be meaningful gifts in Da Lat that you can buy for friends and relatives. Travelers should purchase these items at some stalls selling wool and ethnic handicrafts in the Da Lat Night Market or wool shops in the city center.
Products made from wool
Famous shopping spots in Da Lat
Da Lat Market
Being a famous shopping destination in Da Lat, this market is located on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street right in the city center. Da Lat Market provides almost all household items and specialties of the region such as various types of vegetables, fruits, preserved specialties like jams, dried fruits, as well as souvenir items, clothing items, especially woolen products from woven to handmade ones.
This is also one of the must-visit places in Da Lat attracting a large number of visitors not only because of its extremely diverse range of goods, but also because of countless food stalls offering the culinary flavors of the three regions of North - Central - South. Da Lat Market is open from morning until night, so it's very convenient for you to visit anytime. Come here and experience the daily life of the locals, indulge in shopping, and choose from a variety of fresh specialties, meaningful souvenir gifts for friends and relatives.
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Da Lat Market
Phu Dong Market
Phu Dong Market - a very special name, is an unmissable shopping destination when visiting Da Lat. Located not far from Da Lat Market, Phu Dong Market is the largest night market in Da Lat, it is considered as a night painting of this dreamy city. Phu Dong Market usually opens from evening until 3 - 4 in the morning, the main items here are delicious foods in Da Lat. The stalls are close to each other, displaying various hot dishes, looking very appealing. Besides food, there are also many souvenir items for sale such as T-shirts printed with famous landmarks in Da Lat, woolen clothes, and ethnic scarves,... at reasonable prices. This is one of the sightseeing and shopping spots you can't miss when coming to Da Lat.
Phu Dong Market - a famous market in Da Lat
Specialty stores in Da Lat
In addition to the traditional market areas, specialty stores are also one of the shopping destinations in Da Lat that you can't miss. Some famous specialty stores in Da Lat are:
- L'angfarm: is the most famous specialty retail chain in Da Lat, with a wide range of delicious, nutritious, affordable, and safe products such as: various specialty jams, coffee, extracts, herbal teas, dried meats, various teas, dried fruits,... Currently, L'angfarm has more than 20 stores in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Lat, Bao Loc, Nha Trang, Da Nang, and Vung Tau. In addition to providing Da Lat specialties as gifts, this company also owns the L'angfarm Buffet system - where customers can enjoy more than 50 Da Lat specialties starting from only 59,000 VND. Address: 1B Hoang Van Thu, Ward 5, Da Lat City, Lam Dong Province.
Additionally, there are some specialty stores selling unique specialties such as:
- Dalat Wine Showroom: Address 03 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Da Lat.
- My Hoa Knitting Shop: Address 78 Hoang Dieu, Da Lat.
- Kieu Giang Jam Oven: Address 223 Bis Mai Anh Dao - phone number 063.826.354.
L'angfarm chain stores
Flower showrooms in Da Lat
Da Lat is known as the city of thousands of flowers so if you come here, you must buy flowers as gifts. Some famous flower showrooms in Da Lat that you should visit are:
- Phuong Trung Co., Ltd.: Address 86 An Son, Da Lat.
- Dalat Hasfarm Fresh Flower Showroom: Address 01 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Da Lat.
- LangBiang Farm: Address 42 Xo Viet Nghe Tinh, Da Lat.
- Minh Base: Address 04 Ho Tung Mau, Da Lat.
- Hiếu Showroom: Address at the city flower garden Da Lat.
- Eternal Flower Shop: Address Mai Anh Dao Street, Da Lat.
Dalat Flower Showroom
Notes when shopping in Da Lat
- When shopping at the market, you need to choose carefully to avoid buying counterfeit or low-quality goods.
- Don't forget to bargain when shopping at the market because most items here have quite high asking prices.
- When going to the market in Da Lat, it will be very crowded, so you should be careful with personal belongings, valuable items such as phones, wallets,...
- Be cautious of photo-taking scams, you might lose a small amount of money for them.
Hopefully through this article, you have answered the question 'What to buy in Da Lat?'. Besides the shopping experiences in Da Lat, for a more complete journey, you should also prepare, research about transportation, fun places to visit, and delicious - nutritious - affordable food in Da Lat. You can find details in this article.
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Thu Trang
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