Kontum and Vicinity
This part of the journey was very nostalgic. Kontum was a major staging area for U.S. Forces and South Vietnamese Forces during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Convoys from Pleiku travelled through Kontum on their way to Dak To and Ben Het.
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The road between Pleiku and Kontum was a major convoy route and often mined by Viet Cong and North Vietnames forces. Today, the road is bordered by rubber and coffee farms with most of the heavy jungle canopy now gone. From the road you can barely see Landing Zone Mile-High
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The road between Kontum and Dak To was a major convoy route and also often mined by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. This road also has become a farming road coupled with villages.
Kontum has also been the site of a Catholic Church and Orphanage for several decades.
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During the 1960's there were Montagnard villages throughout the Highlands, with several in Kontum province. All that remains now of a Montagnard presence in the Knotum area is a government-controlled "typical ethnic village" located within the city and kept as a tourist site. This "village" is nothing like the Montagnard villages I remember, and the slum-like condition appears to be a government attempt to depict these wonderful people in a highly negative light.
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