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Buon Ma Thuot is Vietnam’s coffee capital, a city in the Central Highlands at 536 m above sea level. Five sights lie within 55 km of the center: a coffee farm, the World Coffee Museum, a village where M’nong women shape pottery by hand, Dray Nur Waterfall and Lak Lake. One to three days is enough, depending on your pace. That’s the short answer. The longer answer, which sights deserve your time, when the coffee trees flower, and whether to split the waterfall and the lake across two days, is what decides whether Buon Ma Thuot feels like a slow highland stop or a long day in the car.