Tram Chim National Park - an ideal rendezvous place of tourists from all over the world

Tram Chim National Park is established in 1999 and situated in Tam Nong District, Dong Thap province. With an area of 7.600 ha, Tram Chim National Park is designed to preserve the typical submerged in-land eco-system that develops mainly in Ha Tien; the Plain of Reeds and U Minh areas.

Situated about 19 kilometers to the east of the Mekong River with the topography is flat, slopes slightly to the East.  In the past, Tram Chim National Park has several natural streams and rivers which flowed from west to east, distributing water from the Mekong River to the plain of reeds. Nowadays, these streams and rivers have been replaced by a system of canals flowing through the national park.

The vegetation of Tram Chim National Park comprises a mixture of seasonally inundated grassland, regenerating Melaleuca forest and open swamp. Melaleuca is distributed throughout the national park, both in plantations and in scattered patches in areas of grassland or open swamp. There are five widespread grassland communities at Tram Chim, of which the community dominated by Eleocharis dulcis and wild rice Oryza rufipogon is of the highest conservation significance. Tram Chim is one of the few places in the Plain of Reeds where community is likely to survive to any extent.

With a system of swamps, grass-plots and crossing canals, the 7,612 ha Tram Chim National Park has become an ideal habitat of more than 100 vertebrates, 40 species of fish, and 147 rare and precious species of birds, especially the red-head cranes. Hence, it is also an ideal place for scientists to research into the life of migratory birds. To date, at least 88 bird species have been recorded at Tram Chim National Park. The site is famous for the population of Sarus Cranes that inhabits the site in the dry season. In 1990s, hundreds of Cranes spent the dry season here. However, due to some inappropriate development in late 1990s and early 2000s, maximum counts of cranes fell dramatically to some 82 birds in the 2005 dry season.

Other wetland bird species of note recorded at Tram Chim include Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandelianus, Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis and Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus. Because of its importance for globally threatened and bird species, Tram Chim qualifies as an Important Bird Area.

About 40 kilometers from Cao Lanh town in Dong Thap province to Tram Chim National Park, at here, visitors can hire boats to reach good birding sites. From January to May each year, when sky is clear, visitors will see from the horizon many black spot coming. It is crane flock returning after months of emigrating to evade flood. This is also the season for photographing cranes in the dawn and sunset.

Tram Chim National Park is one of the best developed and most well-known sites for ecotourism in the MekongDelta. Tram Chim National Park, with natural history of collective ecology of geomorphology, hydrography and underwater creatures, is an ideal destination of tourists from all over the world.

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