Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist area is a prominent eco-tourist destination of Dong Thap province. With the 4th largest area in Vietnam, Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist area, also known as Tram Chim National Park, attracts a lot of tourists to visit every year not only for its beautiful natural landscape and dishes. It is delicious but also because there are many species of animals and plants in the Red Book, most notably the extremely rare red-headed crane.
The most appropriate time to visit Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist site
Like other western ecological attractions, the best time for you to come to Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist site is during the floating water season. This is the time to have enough natural time – geographical location – human harmony for you to visit all the natural landscapes in the most beautiful season, eat the best dishes of this resort. The western floating season usually starts from August to November of the lunar calendar every year, so remember to make a note to have a reasonable trip.
If you cannot visit this place during the peak tourist season, you can still choose a time around the 2-3 months of the lunar calendar because at this time, many birds from afar fly to feed in Tram Chim tourist area. Dong Thap so you will be able to enjoy these species.
Tram Chim National Park is a certain tourist destination to check – in when traveling to Dong Thap.
How to move to Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist area?
Ho Chi Minh City is about 170km from Tram Chim tourist area, not too far, so you can choose many different ways to get to Dong Thap such as bus, motorbike or private car rental (if you follow group).
– For passenger cars, you can choose car companies like Hoang Minh or Tam Quoc Minh with fares ranging from 150k to 200k.
– If you choose to travel by private vehicle, after arriving in the center of Dong Thap province, to reach Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist area, you can follow the following 2 routes:
From Tam Nong district of Dong Thap province, you go straight through Tram Chim bridge and then continue about 800m to reach the conservation center of Tram Chim National Park. Remember to look on the left hand side.
The road to Tram Chim tourist site is very easy and convenient.
The second way is to follow N2. Detailed schedules from Saigon are as follows. Our group chose to depart from the inner city of Saigon and then go to Phu Lam roundabout, turn on Ba Hom Street to go straight to Provincial Highway 10 and go straight to Duc Hoa, Long An. From Duc Hoa junction, you will turn left to Provincial Highway 9 and then run for about 3 km more, choose to turn right on the dirt road (the car can still go) to the N2 road. From N2 road to Thanh Hoa and then on Highway 62. Going along Highway 62, you move to Tan Thanh and then on provincial highway 829, cross provincial road 844 to reach Tram Chim. The most attractive eco-tourism area in the West is waiting for you.
Note about tickets to Tram Chim Dong Thap area
If you go to the tourist area in Tram Chim Dong Thap during the peak season (the floating water season) you should book tickets early at around 6 – 7 am because if you go too late, you will run out of canoes and now it is quite sunny. If you want to watch the sunrise in Tram Chim area, you should choose to go early (around 5am).
Tram Chim Dong Thap is the most attractive eco-tourist in the West.
Tickets to the tourist area can be purchased at the reception, depending on the distance and the type of boat, the price will vary. The average price is 800k for a canoe of about 12 people. If you go with few people, you should suggest joining groups to save costs and have the opportunity to make new friends.
Price list refer to tourist services in Tram Chim Dong Thap
– Experience to learn to be a fisherman: 150k / 1 person
– Tickets to travel by boat in and out Tram Chim: 200k / person
– Visit the bird breeding grounds by boat (only once a year): 270k / person
– Overnight at bird cajeput: 150,000 VND / person
– Food cost
+ Evening: 100,000k / person
+ Morning: VND 40,000 / person
– Kayak, water bike rental price: VND 50,000 / person
– Money guide for tour guides: about 100,000k / person
– Other costs may arise: 100,000k / person
What to play, what to eat, where to stay at Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist area
Attractive and interesting tourism activities
– Go by boat to admire the scenery at Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist area :
Sitting on a canoe, watching the beautiful natural scenery in Tram Chim is one of the most popular tourist activities in Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist area . Especially during the floating water season, you will be amazed by the constantly changing natural scenery. Just in the green cajuput forest, but after a while, it turns to the brilliant pink lotus field, the pure white lotus. Downstream is a golden space with the field of the first imperial flower. All will make you overwhelmed by the peaceful beauty, purity but no less seductive nature of this place.
Explore the pristine natural scenery in Dong Thap’s most famous tourist area.
If you want to save time, you can choose a guided canoe or choose a tow boat to explore the Tram Chim tourist area by yourself. There is no guide on the tow boat, but it is fully equipped with detailed signage, listing common tree varieties, rare birds for self-discovery and information search. scene.
Blooming lotus field in Tram Chim.
The field of imperial flowers blooms with a golden corner of Tram Chim sky.
– Watch rare birds:
The beautiful scenery of Tram Chim Dong Thap tourist area is even more vivid when it is adorned with tens of thousands of white storks. In addition to me, there are countless different kinds of birds, especially many rare and precious birds in the red book such as the red-headed crane, and 13 other precious birds living and residing here.
The habitat of the rare red-headed crane.
– Experience to harvest ghost rice in wetlands:
Traveling to Tram Chim National Park, Dong Thap , you also have the opportunity to see the typical ghost rice fields. If the time is right, do not miss the experience of participating in harvesting ghost rice (also known as heavenly rice) with this wetland farmers.
Experience ghost rice harvesting in Tram Chim National Park Dong Thap.
– Try to be a fisherman, a farmer in Dong Thap Muoi:
In Tram Chim, there are other interesting activities that you can participate in such as crafting a farmer, fisherman, participating in rafting, ignoring, fishing, river bathing … If you want to participate, you can contact with the receptionist or translation staff to help design your tour.
Enjoy the famous delicacies of the river region
Traveling to Tram Chim Dong Thap National Park in the right season of the floating water season, you will enjoy countless delicious dishes such as crab hot pot, snakehead fish dry salad, crispy fish, rice flakes hot pot …
What is more interesting than when you discover Tram Chim, you can sit on a country house, cool in the middle of the forest, taste all the rustic delicacies with Dong Thap flavor: from grilled snakehead fish, Braised fish with water lilies to snails steamed, crab hotpot with umbrellas, crispy fried fish, grilled fish and grilled fish … These are the specialties that thousands of people love in the West. There is also a long list of delicious and strange dishes of Dong Thap region waiting for you. The most unique is the roasted mouse dish, snakehead fish porridge, crazy cotton pancake, hot pot sauce …
Classic flexible fish hotpot – typical dish of Dong Thap in floating season.
Grilled snail with pepper is also a delicious Dong Thap must try when coming to Tram Chim Tourist Area.
This rustic dish is loved by many tourists when coming to Tram Chim – the western pancake.
Good and cheap places to eat and drink in Tram Chim are the Green Tree restaurant or floating rafts located on the river about 200 meters from the center of Tram Chim National Park.
Place of stay for overnight guests
If you intend to spend the night in the tourist area, you should rent a hotel in the area of Tram Chim National Park because the room price is very attractive, only from 150 – 300k / room. Rooms here are quite neat, clean but very quickly run out of rooms in high season, so remember to call to book before coming.
Not only eating, drinking, resting must also be characterized by the countryside in Tram Chim.
Do not miss the experience of watching the sunrise from the field bearing the flavor of the countryside in the middle of Tram Chim tourist area.
If you want to experience the feeling of closeness to nature, you should register to sleep in the forest at the stopover. The feeling of having just woken up is watching the sunrise on the river, listening to the birds singing is very fond of it.
There are also some hotels in Tam Nong, Chau Doc area that you can refer to:
+ Murray Guesthouse, address: 11-15 Truong Dinh, Chau Phu B, City center, riverside, Chau Doc
+ Dong Xanh Hotel (Dong Xanh Hotel), address: 227 Nguyen Tri Phuong, Hoa Binh Hamlet, Vinh My Ward, City Center, Riverside, Chau Doc