Vietnam’s natural tourist attractions are the unpolluted

Update: 12/01/2010
Tra Su forest in Tien Bien district of An Giang province, Vietnam, is more attractive destination for tourists who love the beauty of nature. This forest is also home to over 100 species of wildlife in Vietnam, some are extinction of animals in the world.

However, the most of wildlife animals in Tra Su forest are bird species.

When arriving at Tra Su, visitors will immediately feel like they are harmonising with nature.

Lots of people come here for exploring nature, and they are the best friend of it, because of all the impressive pictures.

The fragrance of the flowers and the loud bird noise, insects and animals making people relaxed comfortable.

Oh, looked at that little bird, its feather has four colours, a journalist from Angiang Newspaper in An Giang province, Mr Bao Tri, said.

They were very fast and they moved around a lot, he said. He added that it was cute and it’s got such a long trail.

Looked at the tree, there were some birds, and they had two colours beautiful blue and black, he shouted out, at his friends.

Oh, yeah, it was so beautiful and cute, could I take it home? The stuff from China Forum of Environmental Journalists, Miss Li Yinong, asked the man.

“I don’t think the bird would be very happy about that,” the man answered.

Don’t worry my friend, I’m kidding you, Miss Yinong said. She added that in her country China, it had them, too.

“We like this bird because it has a very interesting laugh in the morning,” she said.

“Tra Su forest was so beautiful, and I liked it so much, but I did not like some mosquitoes here, it bit me,” she said lightly.

There is a tower at the middle of the forest. From this point of view, visitors can overlook the forest with an area of nearly 850 ha.

Standing on a 10m high watch tower in the midst of the forest, a lot of tourists can enjoy bird watching and beautiful natural scenery of Tra Su.

The Tra Su forest is in southern An Giang province, about 300 kilometres from Ho Chi Minh City.

The province is located 15km northeast of the Mekong River and 10km northwest of the Cambodia border.

For protecting endangered wildlife in Vietnam, Tra Su was an eco-tourism reserve since 1983, and this forest began attracting visitors in 1999s.

The forest was divided into several sites to make getting around easier, that included a fishing area, a bird sanctuary and a bat sanctuary.

If the visitors take tourist sites by foot, they must spend pretty much the whole day in the forest.

Mr. Tran Ngoc Rang, head of the Forest Ranger Station of Tra Su, said there were about 72,000 visitors visit the forest in a year.

Over 10 percent of whom were foreigners, according to Mr. Rang.

He said the large number of foreign visitors was still unknown, due to it was far from the Ho Chi Minh City.

Many visitors came here they said that they most enjoyed relaxing during a boat trip, enjoying the fresh country air. The noise birds other jungle animals of the forest.

The Mekong floods every rainy season between July and November, and it’s bringing many kinds of birds to the region around the Tra Su Forest.

Most visitors come during the rainy season between July and December, when the entire forest is flooded more than two to four meters of water.

Source: Vfej.vn