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Ba Mun island - a paradise for wild animals
This year the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has
launched a program promoting Vietnam as a paradise of sea and island for
tourists. Besides traditional tourist destinations, travel agents have taken
visitors to primitive places.
Bai Tu Long Bay, located next to Ha Long Bay, is a huge sea biosphere reserve
accounting hundreds of islands and islets. One of them is the Ba Mun Island, the
biggest wild life conservation site in Vietnam’s northeastern region.
From Cai Rong Port in Van Don District, Quang Ninh Province, a high-speed boat
will take you to Ba Mun Island of the Bai Tu Long Bay in about 45 minutes. The
island is called a wildlife animal paradise. It is covered by primeval forests
which, together with high, sheer, dangerous rocks are the natural habitat of
various kinds of animals.
The Ba Mun Island is located in the core of Bai Tu Long Bay and is the only
schist island having primeval forests. Ba Mun covers an area of about 1,800 ha.
On the east side of the island, which is known locally as the “exterior”, strong
waves continuously hit the cliffs to create bubbles and foam up to tens of
meters high. The western side, or the “interior”, on the other hand features
tranquil scenery and calm water that ripples around the boat.
Ba Mun Island has no indigenous residents, only rangers and wildlife rescuers of
Bai Tu Long National Park. They told us that the Park shelters about 2,000
species of fauna and flora, including 72 animals and 32 plants listed in
Vietnam’s Red Book of endangered species. Many of them are living on Ba Mun
Island. The most prominent plants are teakwood, sindora, and ironwood species.
The Lan hai orchid (Cypripedioideae), which was mistakenly thought to be extinct
a few years ago, still exists here. At the present, this orchid species is found
only in Lao Cai Province and Ba Mun Island.
Source: VOV5 |
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