The bright yellow of the sesbania flowers, the purple of the water lilies mixed with the pink of the lotus, the lush green of the cajuput trees… Even for the people of the Southern gardens, the flood season is also peaceful and poetic because the water rises high and is not a flood. And as if to compensate for its groundless anger, nature bestows the flood season with many precious products, abundant fish and shrimp, and murky water carrying heavy alluvium.
If visitors come from other regions, this feeling is even higher than the water level. The most interesting feeling when coming to Tram Chim during the flood season is sitting on a sampan, tearing through the water on the canal, weaving through the cajuput forest to watch red-crested tit, gong coc, le le, and wild ducks living in the middle of nature. In particular, Tram Chim still has ghost rice - a strange wild rice species, with long stems that the higher the water level, the higher the rice will grow.
Tram Chim National Park is nearly 8,000 hectares wide with 200 bird species, accounting for over 60% of the total families and 80% of the total number of bird orders currently in Vietnam. The appearance of red-crowned cranes here shows that this land is still very wild, still retaining its inherent diverse ecosystem. The most beautiful time to be in Tram Chim is before dawn or dusk. Because that is the time when birds leave or return to their nests; they fly all over the sky, chirping loudly... Climbing up the 20m high Vong Canh tower, admiring the whole view of Tram Chim National Park, you will feel like you are immersed in the vast nature.
Grilled snakehead fish is one of the famous specialties of the Southern garden, but the grilled snakehead fish here is truly unique. Here, people do not wrap snakehead fish with vegetables in rice paper but in lotus buds. Lotus buds are young lotus leaves, the edges of the leaves are rolled inwards. There is nothing better than stuffing snakehead fish meat into grilled lotus buds and eating them with vermicelli and vegetables, dipped in tamarind fish sauce. After an interesting day of sightseeing, sitting calmly enjoying snakehead fish wrapped in lotus buds or roasted field mice... and of course, you cannot miss the dried catfish specialty of the cajuput forest that everyone will surely love.
There are many interesting things waiting for you to discover on your journey to the Southwest region during the flood season. In addition to Tram Chim National Park; or Tra Su Melaleuca forest, visitors can go to Chau Doc - An Giang to leisurely take a boat ride on Vinh Te canal to admire the river life of the people here.
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