Day 1: Can Tho – Dong Thap – Sa Dec flower village – Tram Chim National Park – Dong Thap (L)
Morning Activities:
- At 8.00 am our guide and driver welcome you at hotel in Can Tho and transfer you to Dong Thap Province and spend 2,5 hours on car to reach Tram Chim National Park
- En route you will have a stop at Sa Dec Flower Village to learn more of this traditional flower village in Mekong Delta area.
- Arrive at Tram Chim National Park, learn about a general info of the reserve.
- Have lunch with a lot of local Vietnamese cuisines.
Afternoon & Evening Activities:
- This afternoon you get on a solar-powered boat to visit Tram Chim National Park – one of four Ramsar sites in Vietnam. This is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlandsin Mekong Delta Region.
- Our guide will introduce to a wide range of animals, birds and plants in Southern Vietnam where you enjoy the natural beauties of floating season in Dong Thap if reaching here on time (normall around August to November yearly).
- There are many bird species which have been put in the Red Book for a long time. The most well-known one is the Red-headed Crane which is considered as one of the last 15 crane species in the world.
- You will visit Bird Egg house and sweet fish as well as watching document film
- Next you go on your trip to experience a distinct eco-system of the national park by a boat as well as walk through the trails deep inside the reserve with different lotus, lyly, as well as different birds. Especially, you have chance to enjoy the sunset over the national park
You will have a stop at Sung pier (around 1km from boat pier) where you can enjoy the sunset over the Sung field and see the birds back the national park for sleep - Reaching the stop C4 point to check in Tram Chim past and now from the height 15 meter of Observation Tower.
- Continue the trip on boat to reach Muoi Nhe Canal (kênh Mười Nhẹ) and listen to our guide talk about the history of Tram Chim National Park till today
- Arrive in rice field called Bãi Lúa Ma (or Lúa Trời) to get the view and hear of the way local people in harvesting rice
- Your boat back the pier and our driver wait there to transfer you to Cao Lanh city. Check in hotel.
- Free to have your own dinner and overnight at hotel