Traveling to Soc Trang, tourists not only have the opportunity to visit beautiful Khmer temples but also have the opportunity to visit Tan Long stork garden, make friends with hundreds of species of chirping storks as well as learn about their living habits.
Where is Tan Long Stork Garden located?
Address: Tan Binh hamlet, Long Binh commune, Nga Nam district, Soc Trang province.
Tan Long Garden is located in Nga Nam town, about 60 km from the center of Soc Trang province. This place is known as the conservation area of storks because it possesses extremely favorable natural conditions for the living and development of many species of flora and fauna, especially birds and storks. Moreover, the stork garden is also a tourist destination in Soc Trang that is loved by many young people because when you come here to visit, you will have the feeling of being immersed in the vast space and vast nature.
Road to the stork garden. Photo: @jinxedta
After checking in to Nga Nam floating market or Chen Kieu pagoda, Khmer Museum, … you can go to the stork garden to relax with the fresh, cool air and watch each flock of white storks flying. in the blue sky of the river region. This promises to be an unforgettable experience for visitors.
A flock of white storks flew by. Photo: dulichdiaphuong
Directions and means of transportation to Tan Long stork garden
If you come from Nga Nam town, Nga Nam district, Soc Trang province, you should go along provincial road 42 about 5km to reach the famous stork garden of Soc Trang province. In addition, parallel to the road leading to the stork garden, there is a winding canal along Provincial Road 42, which is small and beautiful but also carries a considerable amount of alluvium to nourish the surrounding fields and gardens and give off cool steam all year round. It can be said that the stork garden has a convenient location for tourists to visit, both by waterway as well as by road.
The common house of the storks. Photo: Vntrip
Because it is located not too far from the center of Soc Trang city (less than 50km to the south), you can choose to travel by motorbike or bus which is very convenient and fast.
If you choose to go by bus, you just need to buy a ticket at the bus station on Le Van Tam street – in the inner city of Soc Trang city and then go straight to the stork garden area. If you do not want to take a bus and be more active in commuting, you should travel by motorbike. The road to this Soc Trang tourist destination is also quite easy, but the distance between the two places is not too far.
Cool campus. Photo: @jo
The formation of Tan Long stork garden
According to local people, this stork garden was created and managed by the family of Mr. Huynh Van Muoi, 73 years old, for more than 30 years. The whole garden is about 1.5ha wide and is covered by the shade of coconut trees, bamboo groves, and rows of green bowls. These are some shrubs and vines interspersed to create a rustic, rustic beauty that is extremely dear.
Do not forget to check in with many beautiful photos. Photo: @homies_boutique
When walking on the clean cement walkways, with cool shade trees on top, and two rows of beautiful ornamental plants, you will feel the meticulous care of Mr. Muoi’s hands.
Soc Trang’s favorite tourist destination. Photo: tripzone
Over the years, this place has become a huge, complete bird sanctuary. The stork garden is really a common roof for a large family of birds and storks to live in harmony, including thousands of storks, white storks, red-headed storks, fish storks, storks, gray storks, and swallows. .. There are also storks, gongs, buffalo storks, cauldrons and especially mold herons.
The storks perched on the familiar bamboo and coconut trees. Photo: mytour
Among them, the stork has a fairly large weight (there are adults weighing more than 1kg). Particularly, the heron is the rarest of the storks in Tan Long stork garden because there are only a few hundred. An adult moldy heron will be quite tall, weighing over 3kg, with striking gray plumage, and can have a wingspan of more than 1.5m. In the right breeding season, up to 15 – 20 thousand individuals of storks live and give birth to create a bustling scene. Here and there, the sound of birds and storks is quite pleasant to hear.
Home to thousands of species of storks. Photo: dulich24
Discover the unique features of Tan Long stork garden
The stork garden named Tan Long in Soc Trang is not only an eco-tourism destination attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to visit but also a place to preserve many wild stork species, which is their common roof. People come to Tan Long to watch birds and enjoy the garden, walk in the shelter of thousands of storks, cauldrons, storks and many other rare bird breeds.
The garden covers an area of nearly 2 hectares. Photo: dulicviettnam
Stork garden is checked in by hundreds of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists every year and quickly becomes an outstanding ecotourism destination in Soc Trang.
Poetic scene. Photo: @phanbom
In Tan Long stork garden , people also build an observation tower over 10 meters high for you to admire storks and all kinds of birds in the garden with an area of nearly 2 hectares. On clear days, you can see the entire garden from this observatory.
Eco-tourism site of Soc Trang. Photo khamphadisan
Enjoy the impressive feeling when admiring the scene of flocks of storks gathering white in the garden in the early morning or late afternoon. The sound of birds chirping and chirping is full of fun instead of good morning wishes for you. Early morning or late afternoon are the two best times to admire the stork garden during the day.
An observation tower over 10 meters high is used as a place to admire the storks living here. Photo: khamphadisan
Besides the opportunity to travel, admire, observe and learn about the real-life of storks, tourists traveling to Soc Trang and checking in to the stork garden can rest and relax, even camping in the green campus. if you have spare time. Otherwise, you can also spend a few hours stay and enjoy many specialties and delicacies of Western cuisine such as banh xeo, Southern beef stir-fried vermicelli, pork noodle soup, Soc Trang noodle soup .
Delicious food in the garden. Photo: @metal51
In addition, do not miss the opportunity to enjoy or participate in an unforgettable Don Ca Tai Tu show every night. Even more attractive is that visitors can also listen to the owner of the stork garden telling stories about how affectionate storks are or how jealous storks are. Very interesting is not it?
Another great advantage of the stork garden is that the ticket price is about free, so visitors are free to visit and explore.
Observe the daily life of storks. Photo: khamphadisan
Tan Long Stork Garden is not only an ideal place to watch birds and storks, but also a place that cannot be more suitable for relaxing, camping in a green, fresh and cool campus, and also has a lot of delicious local dishes. wild nature garden. If you have the opportunity to travel to the West, do not miss the opportunity to visit this interesting place.
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