Tà Lài Longhouse
Indigenous Architecture and Community Heritage
Inspired by indigenous architecture and built in partnership with local artisans, Tà Lài Longhouse features three unique traditional Longhouses: the Maa, Stieng, and Tay Mini Longhouses. We can accommodate up to 100 guests across all three houses simultaneously.
The Maa Longhouse, our very first structure, holds a special history: it is a bamboo building collaboratively constructed 12 years ago by the local community in Tà Lài and WWF Vietnam.
Each Longhouse is designed to reflect the traditional communal living style (dorm stay) while still being flexible. They can be sectioned off into smaller rooms, offering enhanced privacy for families and groups.
Funding Futures: Your Stay Fuels Local Growth
30 % of your nights stay is donated to the Community Development Fund (CDF) to support local community projects.
The CDF is dedicated to supporting the local population by:
Sponsoring Education: Providing support for the younger generation to attend school, university, or college.
Boosting Livelihoods: Sponsoring livestock breeds and crop seedlings to enhance local agriculture.
Beyond the CDF, our operations also create direct economic opportunities: our hospitality and services generate salaries for 12 local staff working onsite, as well as providing part-time roles for local guides and community members.
Your Comfort & Amenities
We ensure a restful stay with comfortable mattresses and high-quality bedding, complete with mosquito nets, covers, and pillows. Our traditional architecture allows for natural cooling—open roof slats circulate a gentle breeze—supplemented by fans. You can also rely on electricity and Wi-Fi access throughout your stay, enjoying air that is inherently fresher and cleaner than the city’s.
Just a short walk away, our large, shared bathroom facility offers changing areas, four toilets, and ten modern showers with solar-powered continuous hot water.
The Pavilion - Events & Gathering Space
Perched on the highest point of the site, The Pavilion is our versatile communal space. It’s the perfect venue for meetings, conferences, dinners, or wellness activities like meditation and yoga. It comfortably seats up to 60 people and comes equipped with an HD projector, speaker, and microphone upon request, making it ideal for both business and relaxation.
Flora
Cat Tien is also the home of numerous birds and mammals such as Asian elephants, Sun Bears and Gaur and also hosts many smaller mammal species, including rare Gibbons, Mouse Deer, Tree Shrews, Black Shanked Douc Langur and Pygmy slow Loris.
One the park’s popular sites and attractions in the centre of the parks core is the Bau Sau or Crocodile Lake. Bau Sau ecosystem has an important role in the maintenance and conservation of biodiversity in the region as well as social and economic life of communities. The lake is home to a large number of Siamese crocodile which were reintroduced back into the lake in 2003 as previous inhabitants were poached to extinction. The numbers are now steadily increasing and it is common to see them basking in the sun along the sides of the lake.
Fauna
Cat Tien National Park is located in the south of Vietnam, around 150 km north of Ho Chi Minh City, established in 1992.
It has been an area of about 720 km2 and protects one of the largest areas of lowland tropical rain forest left in Vietnam.
It consists of tropical forest and various vegetation made up of bamboo woodland, farmland, wetlands and grasslands.
