Located in the downstream of Mekong River, in Tam Nong district, Dong Thap province, Tram Chim National Park attracts tourists by the immense blue of melaleuca forests home to numerous rare species of plants and animals. From August to November, this place welcomes hundreds even thousands of visitors coming.
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| Tram Chim National park |
In Mekong Delta Cruise at Tram Chim National Park, you will be introduced about this place with five different areas from A1 to A5. Each area is surrounded by a system of canals and dikes with a total length of about 59 kilometers. By special means of transport- Tac Rang- a small canoe, you will definitely enjoy your best time to everywhere in this national park. Along the sites of canal is long mangrove forest. You will imagine like getting lost in the midst of birds with up to 200 species of all kinds, including many rare species such as O Tac, Te Vang, Gia Day, Choi Choi, etc.
Moreover, in this Mekong Cruise, you will come to vast fields of green grass and colorful lotus. Located in the heart of Dong Thap Muoi, lotus in Tram Chim is the best one in Vietnam. The lotus here has big and thick petals arranging in layer by layer with white and pink colors. If you want to witness the amazing spectacle of Sarus cranes flying to Tram Chim to shelter, you can come here in late December to early May. You will have the opportunity to see cranes in gray suits with large wings and long legs. This creates not like a wonderful natural dance . You will quickly be lured into that performance in the afternoon at sunset. You can observe many species of bird from the 20-meter high tower named Vong Canh. From here, the panoramic views of mangrove forest is filled with blue color, white wings of storks nesting on high places.
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| Sarus Crane |
To experience on Mekong delta tours, from Ho Chi Minh City, you will catch bus running straight down to Tram Chim. Then you can take taxi, or catch coach to Cao Lanh, and transit to getting on bus to Binh Thanh to go to the park. Here, you can take a tour to visit Tram Chim from 1 to 3 hours or rent a boat to explore with the fee from 500.000-800.000 VND per boat. You can stay overnight at the Tram Chim National Park if you want to enjoy more about the nature here. And, you could turn back to Cao Lanh to explore the lives of people here. Do not forget to enjoy specialties such as grilled snakehead fish with lotus leaf.
In a word, visiting Tram Chim National Park in Mekong River Cruises might be one of your unforgettable memories in the South of Vietnam.
