Vam Sat ecological site

PANO - The Vam Sat Ecological Site, nearly 40km from Ho Chi Minh City’s center, is an attracting place for any tourists who love exploring wildlife. The mangrove forest brings the site an evergreen look while millions of white storks annually gathering in the site makes it even more attractive and eye-catching.

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It takes just one hour to drive from the center of Ho Chi Minh City to the Vam Sat Ecological Site, the nearest green tourism site from the national economic hub. The site was recognized by UNESCO in 2000 as a world’s biosphere reserve, the home to plentiful mangrove forest fauna. On canoes, tourists start exploring and photographing Dam Doi (Bat Swamp). Touring Dam Doi takes just half an hour. However, tourists often spend more time to explore the swamp because of the charming color of the water there.

Enjoying the nature while canoeing through such typical local trees as mangrove, date palm, bird’s nest fern and black mangrove in Can Gio mangrove forest

The shallow water Dam Doi is ideal for green alga to grow

Concrete paths are built to avoid slipping in rainy season. Walking on those paths, tourists can see mangrove, the typical vegetation in Vam Sat

Watching bats is another interesting activity. Tourists must be quiet while trying to find bats hanging on tree branches. Sometimes, tourists find it difficult to spot even a bat found by other tourists. Dam Doi is a place for preserving big bats which gather in Dam Doi at a certain time in a year. When the time comes, tourists could see dozens, even hundreds of bats hanging on tops of trees.