BEST TIME TO VISIT TRAM CHIM NATIONAL PARK
A lot of people visiting Tram Chim National Park has said that the perfect time to get to this park is in February and March, according to the lunar year. This is because during this time, birds will fly back from their migration places. Therefore, tourists may have a chance to observe a wide range of different birds in the sky. Furthermore, in case you want to taste the delicious flavor of Dong Thap’s fruits, you can visit Tram Chim park from August to November each year.
BIODIVERSITY VALUES OF TRAM CHIM NATIONAL PARK
Tram Chim is another Kingdom of birds in Mekong Delta, located at Dong Thap province and can be easily reached by motorbike or car. Spanning over the total area of 7,500 hectares, Tram Chim National Park is home to 200 types of birds, of which many are rare and endangered. This number makes up a quarter of the bird population in Vietnam. Tram Chim Park is also the place you can see a large number of the rare white lotus in Vietnam.
To date, at least 88 bird species have been recorded at Tram Chim National Park. The site is famous for its population of Sarus Cranes that inhabits the site in the dry season. In the 1990s, hundreds of Cranes spent the dry season here. However, due to some inappropriate development in the late 1990s and early 2000s, maximum counts of cranes fell dramatically to some 82 birds in the 2005 dry season.
In addition to Sarus Crane, the globally endangered Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis has also been recorded at Tram Chim National Park. The status of this secretive grassland specialist at Tram Chim is not fully known but it is likely that birds vacate the area during periods of substantial inundation in the late wet season.
Local people believe that the species breeds at the site, and claim to have found both eggs and young of the species but this has yet to be confirmed. A number of other globally threatened and near-threatened bird species regularly occur at Tram Chim, including Oriental Darter Anhinga melanogaster, Lesser Adjutant Leptoptilos javanicus, Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala and Asian Golden Weaver Ploceus hypoxanthus.
Other wetland bird species of note recorded at Tram Chim include Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandelianus, Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis and Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus. Because of its importance for globally threatened and bird species, Tram Chim qualifies as an Important Bird Area.
WHAT TO DO IN TRAM CHIM NATIONAL PARK
This wonderful land offer tourists so many great activities to join. If you do not have much free time, you can consider the list below:
1. Take part in amazing games
There are a number of recreational activities for tourists to enjoy in Tram Chim National Park including fishing, harvesting rice and bathing.
Fishing: Prepare yourself a fishing rod and catch the fish when the boat stops. Then, the caught fish will be delivered to the processing area where they are served right after that.
Bathing: If you love to bathe, there is also a place for you to do this recreation activity. Besides having a chance to go swimming in such clear water, you can take many wowing photos in the river.
2. Take a boat to do sightseeing
Tram Chim National Park has lots of interesting scenery, which creates a good chance for tourists to do some sightseeing while sitting on beautiful boats. In a tranquil atmosphere, visitors can admire the elegance of colorful lotus petals and smell the freshening aroma of them. This may create a memorable experience in every visitor’s life.
3. Try some typical cuisine
Some delicious specialties that are mostly recommended by tourists here are crab hotpot, crispy fried fish, fish sauce hot pot and snakehead fish salad. If you come here, do not forget to enjoy some of them, you will be amazed by the amazing cuisine Vietnam, which are very famous not only in Southeast Asia but also in all over the world.
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